New Delhi: The city has been witnessing frayed tempers when it comes to parking disputes — with seemingly minor disagreements often escalating to extreme levels, leading to incidents of violence and deaths. Even vehicles have been set on fire.On April 16, a 50-year-old auto-rickshaw driver lost his life after he collapsed during an altercation with…
(Left) The complainant’s brother-in-law, Salman, fractured a hand; and (right) the alleged assailants also smashed the car’s windshield MUMBAI: The father-in-law of former India cricketer and Trinamool Congress MP Yusuf Pathan was arrested on Monday, along with his son and a relative, for allegedly assaulting a man and his family in Byculla two days earlier…
Bengaluru: India suffered a big jolt on Monday with Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), an independent body of World Athletics to manage integrity issues, placing the country under the highest-risk category. This could spell more trouble for Indian athletes at global events.Under World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules, AIU Board categorises member-federations as per doping risk to the…
Chennai: DMK candidate J Karunanithi won T Nagar constituency by a margin of 137 votes in 2021. In this constituency, the NOTA (None of the Above) polled 1,617 votes, about 11 times more than the victory margin. These voters said they were not happy with works done by AIADMK and DMK candidates and registered their…
Hyderabad: BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao returned to the political stage on Monday with a blistering attack on the Congress govt, declaring that his first decision upon returning to power would be to abolish the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA).Addressing a ‘Praja Ashirwada Sabha’ in Jagtial—where veteran politician T Jeevan Reddy formally…
A fire broke out at a packaging company in the Ravi Nagar industrial area on Basai Road on Monday morning. Gurgaon: A fire broke out at a packaging company in the Ravi Nagar industrial area on Basai Road on Monday morning.No injuries or casualties occurred in the incident, officials said.The blaze started around 8 am…
Kolkata: ED on Monday claimed that arrested realtor Jay S Kamdar was “in close contact” with several police officers — including Santanu Sinha Biswas, a serving DCP in Kolkata Police’s Special Branch — and had been providing them and their family members “favours and expensive gifts”.A Kolkata PMLA court remanded Kamdar to nine days of…
Noida: Three fire incidents were reported from different parts of the city on Monday. Fire dept officials confirmed that no casualties or injuries were reported.A major fire broke out around 2 p.m. on Monday in a plastic and scrap warehouse at Kakrala Colony in Sector 80. Thick black smoke rose into the sky because of…
Tivim: After answering her Class X examinations, another test awaited Rutika Kauthankar of Autchitwaddo, Tivim. She would have to return as a dhond (devotee who keeps a fast) to the goddress Lairai jatra in Shirgao, Bicholim, on April 21. It was at this very jatra venue that she witnessed her mother Tanuja’s death in a…
Ahmedabad: Damaging public property to fix private problems has landed the owner of a restaurant in Gota in hot water. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) sealed the eatery and on Monday after the owner dug up a newly constructed footpath to repair the establishment’s private sewer line.Taking a strict stance against the destruction of civic…
