New Delhi: A history of multiple criminal cases in Bihar failed to flag a driver who easily secured employment with app-based cab aggregators. Now accused of the rape and murder of a 10-year-old homeless girl, his seamless onboarding highlights a dangerous loophole in the background verification processes used by major ride-hailing aggregator platforms.While drivers themselves…
The incident took place at Suncity Complex near Shyamlal Sohanlal Gupta Chowk on Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road on Wednesday morning Mumbai: A retaining wall and a portion of an adjoining road caved in at a residential complex in Vikhroli West on Wednesday morning, amid overnight heavy rain that has lashed the city over the past 24…
Bengaluru: A special court for corruption cases registered and investigated by Lokayukta in Tumakuru held a former assistant executive engineer with Bescom-Kunigal and an electrical contractor guilty of accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 to install a transformer in 2014 and sentenced them to five years’ simple imprisonment with fine.The convicted are then AEE PN…
The photo that environmental activist Bharathidasan took of a slender loris that was electrocuted In March, Tamil Nadu established India’s first slender loris conservation centre at Kadavur. But it was a chance photograph and post by environmental activist S Bharathidasan that turned out to be a real lifesaver for the nocturnal primate.Around two months ago,…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court on Wednesday expressed displeasure with the education department over the delay in filing counters in petitions by private engineering colleges seeking release of long-pending tuition fee reimbursement dues.Justice Juvvadi Sridevi on Wednesday directed the state govt and the department to clarify when it would clear the pending fee dues to engineering…
Faridabad reports more than 300 dog bite cases per day Gurgaon: A 10-year-old boy was mauled by a pack of stray dogs in the basement of a housing society in Faridabad’s Sector 70 on Tuesday evening.The Class 5 student was riding his bicycle in Mulberry County when the chain slipped off. As he sat down…
Kolkata: The under-construction structure, which collapsed on Transport Depot Road near Taratala on Wednesday, was coming up on a plot, leased by Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, to Behera Brothers for a warehouse and cold storage facility.Sanjoy Kumar Mukherjee, public relations officer of SMPK, said the plot, measuring around 72,000 sq ft, was leased to…
Noida: Nine years on, when a consumer panel ordered an insurance compensation to a Badaun farmer, two words became his saviour — bread earner.Kailash Chandra, whose earning wife died in an accident in 2017, ran from pillar to post to claim the insurance compensation of Rs 5 lakh, as promised under a govt scheme, before…
Margao: A delegation of scheduled tribe MLAs, ministers, and leaders called on chief minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday, pressing him to vigorously pursue the demand for political reservation of STs in Goa and ensure the process is completed before the 2027 assembly elections.The delegation comprised assembly speaker Ganesh Gaonkar, tribal welfare minister Ramesh Tawadkar, MLAs…
Ahmedabad: Southwest monsoon has arrived in Gujarat, about a week behind its usual June 15 onset date.Conditions, however, are favourable for the monsoon’s progress in the state over the next two to three days, said Met department officials.Gujarat currently has two weather systems in the form of troughs, one from the southeastern Rajasthan to the…
