Chennai: National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) chairperson Antar Singh Arya cut short a review meeting on issues concerning Scheduled Tribes after chief secretary C Sai Kumar and secretaries of the forest, revenue and health departments failed to turn up in Chennai on Tuesday. Later that day, the CS and other secretaries met Arya and…
Though the anxious father managed to break through a glass door and enter the SNCU, it was too late. HYDERABAD: Saleem Khan had just stepped out of RIMS’ special neonatal care unit (SNCU) on Monday night when, startled by a deafening sound and thick smoke, he rushed back with his brother. Khan’s five-day-old baby girl…
Kolkata: Kolkata Police has started buying new counter-surveillance, bomb disposal, and explosive detection equipment worth more than Rs 4.4 crore.The force has issued tenders for 12 Non-Linear Junction Detectors worth about Rs 2.4 crore and nine portable Explosive Vapour Detectors worth nearly Rs 2 crore.The Non-Linear Junction Detectors will help police find hidden electronic devices…
Police said the accused Arvind Singh (35) opened fire with his rifle after an argument with priests. VARANASI: Two priests and a woman were allegedly shot dead by her husband during a dispute over a religious ritual in Shambhuganj village in Azamgarh on Tuesday evening.Police said the accused, Arvind Singh, 35, opened fire with his…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) has directed schools to report cases where students have not received mark sheets or certificates issued for the Feb, March and June 2026 examinations, or where the documents contain errors or discrepancies.The board has also asked schools that had earlier sought reprinting of mark sheets or…
Seizure made by the police Amritsar: The Amritsar commissionerate police on Tuesday claimed to have busted six illegal arms supply networks and arrested eight persons with 13 illegal pistols and 23 cartridges.Harmanbir Singh Gill, commissioner of police, Amritsar, told reporters that the preliminary investigation revealed the accused were in contact with foreign-based smugglers and were…
Pune: LIGO-India must adopt newer technologies for improved sensitivity and not rely only on ageing components supplied by the United States, said David Reitze, executive director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory, here on Tuesday.Reitze was in Pune to attend the biannual gathering of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration — comprising gravitational-wave researchers from across…
Accused Rubul Khan was taken to Sivasagar Civil Hospital for treatment Dibrugarh: An accused in a former CRPF jawan’s murder was injured in police firing during a weapon-recovery operation in Assam’s Sivasagar district.Rubul Khan, accused in the murder of businessman and former CRPF jawan Biman Baruah, was shot in the right leg in the early…
Lucknow: Contradictions in the testimony of prime witness Sana Siddiqui and inconsistencies between two medical examinations proved decisive in the acquittal of co-accused Sandeep Kumar on the charge of voluntarily causing hurt, a court observed while evaluating evidence in the Vivek Tiwari case.Sandeep Kumar, one of the two policemen accused in the 2018 shooting of…
The accused, identified as Lance Naik Bhopal Singh (32), a resident of Jhotwara in Jaipur, was traced by Sikar’s Dadiya police JAIPUR: An army soldier was arrested by the Sikar police in connection with an alleged organised crime case linked to the seizure of illegal firearms and ammunition from a flat in Sikar Monday.Four other…
