Body of 16-year-old being exhumed Bengaluru: A week-long mystery surrounding the sudden disappearance of a 16-year-old girl ended Saturday evening after Sathanur police exhumed her body from an agricultural farm in Kanakapura. Her murder and subsequent cover-up came to light following a drunken confession by the accused minor boy’s uncle at a local bar.The victim…
CHENNAI: The Chennai city police on Saturday arrested two more men in connection with the alleged ₹35crore bribery attempt targeting TVK MLA N Ilaiyaraja, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 14. Police also seized ₹2.82 crore in unaccounted cash from the two men during the investigation.The latest to be arrested have…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has dismissed a writ petition filed in an attempt to allegedly ‘encroach’ upon a football ground at Ammuguda near Yapral in the city, claiming it as private property, holding that the petitioners had no legal basis for their claim and had unnecessarily consumed the court’s time.Justice E V Venugopal also imposed…
Some hawkers in the Burrabazar area started removing plastic sheets and umbrellas while the police team was still around Kolkata: Cops from the Jorasanko Police Station visited several parts of Burrabazar on Friday evening and instructed traders, shopkeepers and hawkers to immediately remove plastic sheets used to cover their goods, clear encroachments from pavements and…
Panaji: Goa has secured the 4th spot among 36 states and Union territories in Niti Aayog’s Investment Friendliness Index 2026, scoring 53.1 overall and emerging as one of only five states nationally to be classified a “Top Performer” — those scoring above 50.The state also ranked first among seven city states and Union territories evaluated…
Varanasi: Just a fortnight before his retirement, an Urdu translator (clerk), Abdul Rahman Ansari, posted at Cantt police station, was caught red-handed while allegedly accepting a Rs 20,000 bribe by a team of the anti-corruption unit on Friday. He had allegedly sought the bribe to remove the name of Sarik Shah, a resident of Sadar…
Amritsar: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday conducted searches at the residence of Vijay Kataruchak, a close associate of Punjab minister Lal Chand Kataruchak, as part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged land transfer scam in Pathankot district.The search was carried out at Kataruchak village along the Gurdaspur–Pathankot highway. Vijay’s residence is located adjacent…
Guwahati: Manipur CM Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Saturday said his priority since assuming office has been to reunite the people of the strife-torn state, asserting that groups with ‘vested interests’ were attempting to sabotage the govt’s peace initiatives.Addressing a BJP mandal-level political workers’ conference at Lilong, the state’s lone Muslim-majority assembly constituency in Thoubal district,…
LUCKNOW: A swift rescue operation by the Sadullanagar Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur district saved the life of a 35-year-old man who became trapped inside a 15-20-foot-deep tunnel-like pit beneath his partially collapsed mud house on Friday evening.The incident occurred at around 8:30 pm in Newada village, where Ram Vilas, son of Ram Bahadur, reportedly…
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla recognises 6 UBT rebel MPs joining Shinde’s Shiv Sena NEW DELHI: In a major setback for Uddhav Thackeray, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday formally recognised the change in party affiliation of six Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs who have joined the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, according to an official…
