Bombay high court Tuesday quashed an FIR filed based on Lilavati Hospital Trust’s complaint against HDFC Bank CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan, 61, last year for alleged offences of cheating and criminal breach of trust after the bank began recovery proceedings.HC, in similar relief, quashed FIRs against three others too, who like Jagdishan had filed quashing petitions…
Bengaluru: A miscreant stole six laptops from a private firm in HSR Layout Sector 1 recently.According to the complaint filed by admin staff of Linking Spaces Technologies Pvt Ltd, the office opened around 9.30am on April 30 and the theft happened within a few minutes.An unidentified man arrived on a two-wheeler, parked it outside the…
Chennai: Two pregnancies in Chennai were thrown off course by an unexpected kidney cancer diagnosis, highlighting the need to include renal scans during routine health check-ups.In a brief report in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology’s Uro-Oncology Asia 2026, doctors from the Meridian Super Speciality Hospital found an 8.5cm lump on the right kidney of…
Hyderabad: Zen Technologies has unveiled a new indigenous platform that it describes as the country’s first fully integrated, AI-powered anti-drone system aimed at countering evolving aerial threats. The Hyderabad-based company said the new modular platform, which can operate on vehicle-mounted, man-portable and fixed configurations, combines both soft-kill and hard-kill options to tackle hostile drones, including…
KOLKATA: Though his party, Trinamool Congress, was defeated, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, 82, won the Ballygunge seat, scripting history, becoming the only Bengal MLA set to serve his 10th consecutive term.This octogenarian Trinamool MLA is one of Mamata Banerjee’s closest associates since the party was founded on Jan 1, 1998. He was the only MLA in the…
Ahmedabad: Under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the first round of admissions for Class 1 was completed, with 77,925 students allotted seats in private schools across the state. However, around 5,753 seats remain vacant after the initial allocation.As per official instructions, parents of students who have been allotted seats must confirm admission by visiting…
The crew used a fire extinguisher and managed to control it initially. As it appeared to be burning internally, they tried placing it in a water container, but it reignited, filling the cabin with thick smoke. The flight was full and all exits were opened for evacuation. NEW DELHI: A potential mid-air chaos was narrowly…
Kolhapur: The Bombay high court’s Kolhapur bench on Tuesday asked the counsel for the state govt to seek instructions from the chief minister on initiating a fresh process for conferring a Padma award (posthumously) on wrestling legend late Khashaba Jadhav, India’s first individual Olympic medalist. This was after the counsel for the central govt told…
Guwahati: A 4% increase in vote share can look modest on paper, but it can dramatically alter seat counts. That is exactly what happened with BJP in Assam’s 2026 assembly elections.Assam’s elections output is a clear example of India’s electoral calculations that vote share alone does not determine outcomes, the distribution and concentration of the…
Lucknow: More than 1,000 bhandaras were organised across the city on the first Bada Mangal. Around 470 bhandaras were registered with LMC. Organisers were told to segregate wet and dry waste at the source, using green and blue bins. Sanitation teams monitored sites throughout the day, while devotees were urged to avoid single-use plastic and…
