The sawdust used as spawn to grow the mushrooms caught fire on Saturday Ponda: A mushroom growing factory at Usgao, Ponda, was gutted after the sawdust used as spawn to grow the mushrooms caught fire on Saturday evening. The sawdust stocked was highly combustible and was being shifted out with the help of an excavator…
Varanasi: Twenty-four hours after an FIR was registered, police arrested a 45-year-old man accused of raping two minor sisters and blackmailing them with videos, following an encounter in Azamgarh on Saturday.The accused, Mohammad Zahid alias Rustam, 45, sustained a bullet injury in the leg during the exchange of fire, ASP (City) Madhuvan Kumar Singh said.Singh…
The arrested individuals are Suraj Sahani, 20, of Narol; Vatva residents Ravikumar Shah, 23, Virendra Baghel, 25, and Chandramohan Sharma, 23; Meraj Rabari, 49, from Banaskantha; and a minor who has been detained Ahmedabad: What began as a routine murder investigation in Vatva took a dramatic turn when police stumbled upon a massive counterfeiting racket…
The suspects, arrested in connection with the recent murder of a local businessman, were brought back to the exact spot where they allegedly executed the crime Panchkula: In a dramatic and highly visible law enforcement action, the Panchkula Police on Saturday paraded four accused individuals—with their heads publicly shaved—through the main market of Pinjore.The suspects,…
Pune: The Pune Rural police have intensified efforts to trace couples from Pune, Ahilyanagar, Solapur and Satara districts who allegedly visited an illegal sonography centre for prenatal sex determination and subsequently underwent abortions.The case came to light on May 14, after a medical practitioner from Manjari came across a sex-determination video and alerted authorities. The…
Shillong: Three govt vehicles and a tourist taxi were set ablaze in a series of suspected incidents of arson across different parts of Shillong on Saturday.Police have launched an investigation into the incidents caused by unidentified miscreants.Vehicles belonging to key govt agencies, including the police, health department and North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO),…
Lucknow: A 22-year-old BTech student was arrested after a police encounter in Sitapur on Saturday for allegedly killing his three-month pregnant girlfriend, a 20-year-old BSc student, following a dispute over marriage.The accused suffered gunshot injury on his leg after he allegedly snatched the service weapon of a policeman and opened fire while attempting to escape.The…
Jaipur: A 16-year-old girl who went missing Friday after leaving home for a bicycling jaunt was found dead under mysterious circumstances on the first-floor porch of an apartment complex in the city’s Pratap Nagar area Saturday morning.Police have launched an investigation and are looking at both murder and suicide angles.Pratap Nagar SHO Puran Mal said…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the INDIA bloc meeting on Monday, CPI(M) general secretary MA Baby, in a sharply worded letter to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, has raised the allegations by Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders during the Kerala polls that CPI(M) and the BJP had struck a deal and their call for ED action…
‘Peddi’ released in theatres on June 4 and faced a lot of backlash for the way Janhvi Kapoor‘s character Achiyyamma was portrayed. The objectification of an actress in a film lead to criticism over social media. The film sees Janhvi opposite Ram Charan. Much of the criticism has focused on the character’s introductory scene, in…
