New Delhi: A man driving a sedan dragged a motorbike that he had hit for 50-100 metres on Africa Avenue around 10pm Thursday, while commuters repeatedly honked to stop his car.The bike rider, Tanish Tokas (21), was knocked off the bike when 73-year-old Venu Gopal’s car hit the two-wheeler. Tokas, fortunately, escaped without any serious…
Students protest outside the IIT Bombay (Powai) MUMBAI: A second-year student of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering died by suicide at IIT-Bombay Friday evening. According to a statement shared by the institute, the student was found using a mobile phone in the exam hall during an examination, earlier in the day on Friday….
Police said the accused, Wala Bhaskar Reddy, allegedly planned to extort Rs 1 crore from the boy’s realtor father. BENGALURU: A UK-returned MTech graduate, who had recently joined an infrastructure company, has been arrested on charges of kidnapping and killing the 13-year-old son of his former neighbour in Bengaluru Urban district on Wednesday night.Police said…
The govt order for the ‘Thaimaaman Thanga Mothiram’ scheme was issued on June 23, a day after Vijay’s birthday Chennai: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay will launch the ‘Thaimaaman Thanga Mothiram’ scheme on Sept 28, making every child born in a govt hospital from June 22, 2026, eligible to receive a 1g gold ring. The…
IT and industries minister Duddilla Sridhar Babu Hyderabad: Telangana govt plans to conduct the 2027 Godavari Pushkaralu on the lines of the Kumbh Mela, with advanced command and control centres in high-footfall tier-1 areas and ghat-wise ground studies to strengthen arrangements for devotees, IT minister Duddilla Sridhar Babu said on Friday at a cabinet sub-committee…
A vehicle being worshipped on Vishwakarma Puja in Kalighat on Friday. A large number of cabs stayed off roads because of the festival Kolkata: Commuters across the city faced a fare surge in app-cab services of different aggregators on Friday when a major portion of public transport, like buses, autos and metered taxis, stayed off…
Ahmedabad: A woman in her thirties was rescued after residents of a city-based housing society approached Abhayam 181 women helpline on Thursday, following a series of incidents involving the woman.Counsellors said the woman had earlier been living in one of the houses in the society with her relatives. However, following frequent quarrels, the landlord had…
While the house was in Ram Prakash’s name, it was Kapil who executed the deal, the complainant said Panchkula: The Economic Offences Wing-1 of Panchkula police arrested a man on Thursday in connection with an alleged Rs 1.07 crore fraud related to the sale of a house in Sector 26. The accused, Kapil Chawla, was…
Vehicular movement and barricading in front of PMC building. Pune: Devotees are scrambling to park their vehicles during pandal hopping, forcing many to leave vehicles on bridges and roadsides ahead of Ganeshotsav’s busiest days.Lack of dedicated parking spaces on the days leading to Ganapati visarjan, when the footfall is expected to be at its highest,…
4th Such Centre Busted in 3 Months Lucknow: Sixteen people, including four women, were detained after police busted a suspected cyber fraud call centre allegedly targeting US citizens from a commercial building barely a few hundred metres from the Kapoorthala police outpost in Aliganj early Friday.The action is the fourth such suspected international cyber fraud…
