Chennai: Against the backdrop of the BJP’s poor performance in the 2026 Assembly elections, where the party won only one of the 27 seats it contested, the Tamil Nadu unit has decided to hold district-level office-bearers’ meetings across the state from May 24 to May 29 as part of an outreach and review exercise.Apart from…
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court quashed a food adulteration case registered against a biryani masala-making unit owner, holding that police lacked jurisdiction to investigate food adulteration offences.The case was booked on a police complaint alleging the unit owner manufactured adulterated biryani masala and stored it in unhygienic conditions.Relying on precedent rulings, the court held that…
Gurgaon: A man wanted in a case of attempted murder was arrested after an encounter near the KGP underpass in the Fajjupur area of Faridabad late on Thursday night.Police said the accused, Sandeep alias Chenta, was wanted in connection with an attack at Chandila Food Hotel in Sector 12 on Wednesday. The accused had assaulted…
Senior advocate Billwadal Bhattacharyya was appointed as additional advocate general of Bengal on Friday. He is the second AAG to be appointed this week after senior advocate Rajdeep Mazumder. “The govt reposed faith in me. It will be my duty to live up to the expectation. It’s a new govt, which brings a lot of…
The Delhi-Meerut Namo Bharat corridor currently records an average daily ridership of nearly one lakh commuters Ghaziabad: NCRTC has introduced eight additional Namo Bharat trips during peak hours on the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut route from Friday. The decision has been made to meet the higher ridership demand amid rising temperatures and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal for…
The restructuring of Asian competitions and poor performances of Indian clubs has seen India drop to 15th in West Asia and 26th overall in Asia Panaji: From competing in the top tier of Asian football just three years ago, Indian clubs have been demoted to the AFC Challenge League, the third tier, for the 2027-28…
Varanasi: The head constable of the 34th Battalion PAC was suspended after a video surfaced on social media showing his violent altercation with a woman near the Satyanarayan temple near Gate No. 4 of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple. According to reports, during a dispute over removing flower vendors, the constable threw the woman’s goods on…
People up to the block-level can now file RTI applications online Gandhinagar: Filing Right to Information (RTI) applications in Gujarat has become significantly easier as the state’s online RTI portal has finally been extended to local civic bodies, collectorates, and police commissionerates. Moving beyond the offices of various departments located in the Gandhinagar secretariat, citizens…
Payal DhawanLudhiana: Punjabi singer Yashinder Kaur, alias Inder Kaur (Mundian Kalan), was shot dead, with the autopsy confirming two bullet injuries — one piercing her chest and another lodged in her forehead.The post-mortem was conducted by a board of doctors, including forensic experts Dr Karan, Dr Vishal Chopra and Dr Mandeep. Following the examination, the…
Chandigarh: Excessive screen time is normalising alcohol use and driving risky sexual behaviour among teenagers. These are the findings of a medical study into adolescent digital habits.Researchers from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) reached 85 students at Shri Jainendra Gurukul Senior Secondary School in Panchkula, delivering a targeted behavioural intervention…
