“POCSO offence cannot be quashed on basis of compromise”, says Delhi High Court NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has held that proceedings under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act cannot be quashed on the basis of a compromise between a child victim or the victim’s family and the accused.Justice Sachin Datta…
Engineers working to upgrade a busy highway junction near San Francisco in 2000 faced a serious technical problem. The ground was made up of about 30 feet of unstable bay mud, a soft type of soil that could sink or crack under the weight of normal road-building materials. To solve the problem, project planners used…
Quote of the day by Humphrey Bogart: ‘Everybody has something to conceal,’ when the American actor highlighted that everyone keeps a part of their life hidden(Image Credit: Instagram) There are certain things in everyone’s life that they prefer to keep to themselves. It could be an old memory, a personal fear, a difficult experience or…
Seema Devi (left) during the Women’s 10,000m Final India’s 16-year wait for a women’s 10,000m medal at the Asian Games ended on Thursday as track and field athlete Seema Kumari ran her way to bronze medal in Nagoya.In a race that built slowly before coming alive at the finish, Seema stayed in the medal fight…
Lonzo Ball’s journey in the world of basketball has been riddled with setbacks, predominantly stemming from injuries that have hindered his progress. However, acknowledging these past hurdles doesn’t equate to relinquishing future dreams. The wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita serves as a reminder to engage in action without fixations on results while staying receptive to…
Police said Asif was arrested after he allegedly opened fire at a police team near DM Office Road in Amar Colony in the early hours of Tuesday. NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday remanded three accused arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl to 14 days’ judicial custody.The three accused…
Parents of Sahil Wakode, an IIT Bombay student who died by suicide, have started a hunger strike MUMBAI: Parents of deceased IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode began an indefinite hunger strike on Thursday, seeking justice for their son and action against those they allege tormented him, news agency PTI reported.Mumbai Police had detained Sahil’s father,…
CHENNAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested two absconding accused in the HashPe cryptocurrency fraud case, in which people were duped of more than Rs 146 crore on the promise of high returns if they invested in a cryptocurrency named TCX.The accused, identified as Syed Usman alias Babu and Dhamodharan Balachandran of Coimbatore, were produced…
Hyderabad: BRS Working President K.T. Rama Rao on Thursday described the Supreme Court verdict upholding the Telangana High Court’s decision to disqualify Danam Nagender as a “supreme slap” to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy.Reacting to the Supreme Court’s dismissal of Nagender’s petition challenging his disqualification, KTR said the former Khairatabad…
Ahmedabad: Registrar of Companies (ROC), Ahmedabad, has penalised a local company and four of its directors for non-compliance in a preferential allotment, citing violation of Section 42 of the Companies Act, 2013.The case relates to private placement compliance, where companies raising funds from a select group of investors must follow strict timelines and banking controls….
