Mumbai: The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report for 2024, released on Wednesday, showed an overall decline in crime across India’s metropolitan cities and states, even as Mumbai recorded rises in total offences, crimes against women and children, and cybercrime. While several traditional offences such as murder, robbery and house break-ins declined, concerns persisted over…
Bengaluru: A week after seven people were killed when a portion of the boundary wall of Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital collapsed, the remaining wall still stands untouched. Even traffic has been allowed to ply along it, while debris of the fallen portion still lies where it fell. Bags of sand have been placed at…
Vijay who met the governor on Thursday was told that he had not ‘established’ that he had the required number of MLAs to form govt. The meeting comes a day after Vijay staked claim to form the govt. CHENNAI: Uncertainty over formation of a govt led by TVK continued on Thursday after Governor R V…
Kolkata: “The onus to prove religious persecution as reason for migrating from Bangladesh to India lies on the infiltrator and not state,” Calcutta High Court on May 6 held, refusing to quash case against a 27-year-old Hindu woman from Bangladesh who entered on a tourist visa, got married to an Indian but after visa expiry…
Panaji: The Bombay high court directed the home department to constitute a state monitoring committee to facilitate setting up of the open correctional institution as directed by the Supreme Court.The home department was told to include in its committee architect Anup Gadgil, director of Goa unit of prison ministry, Fr Maverick Fernandes, professor in sociology…
Jalandhar/Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday doubled down on his charge that BJP was linked to the recent blasts in Jalandhar and Amritsar even as BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh sent him a legal notice, demanding his apology, and seeking a sedition case against him.“Communal parties like BJP and Akali Dal make…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: IAS officer and Beed’s former district collector Avinash Prabhakar Pathak (55) was arrested on Thursday from his Latur residence in an alleged Rs310 crore scam involving fabricated backdated orders, forged files and documents to facilitate enhanced compensation in land acquisition for the Dhule-Solapur National Highway project passing through Beed district.Pathak is the fourth…
Guwahati: Seven armed members of various insurgent groups in Nagaland surrendered at Dimapur Police Station on Thursday, as a result of persistent persuasion and coordinated efforts of security forces.A defence PRO stated that based on specific intelligence inputs regarding the presence of cadres belonging to multiple factions in the general areas of Dimapur, Assam Rifles…
Jaipur: Rajasthan has begun implementing its annual mineral auction action plan with the successful auction of nine major limestone blocks in April, a move expected to strengthen the state’s mining revenue and cement industry supply chain.The limestone blocks, spread across 1,218.43 hectares in Nagaur, Jaisalmer and Chittorgarh districts, are estimated to hold nearly 920 million…
NEW DELHI: At least six in every 10 road crash victims in India in 2024 were two-wheeler riders/pedestrians, according to the latest report of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). An analysis of four years of data shows a steady rise in both the share and number of two-wheeler riders and pedestrians killed in crashes, amid…
