Mumbai: In a significant order relating to the death of a man six years after a motor vehicular accident, a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal has held that his passing can be treated as caused by the accident when medical records show a continuous chain of treatment, infection and complications from the same injury. The tribunal…
Chennai: Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) officials seized ₹69,000 from two Tangedco employees during a raid at Nanganalluron Wednesday following complaints of bribe demands.The complaints were against officials and employees of the electricity distribution office, saying they were demanding money for new power connections to houses and commercial establishments, transfer of service connections and…
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla (file photo) Kolkata/New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has issued notices to 20 rebel Trinamool MPs who merged with Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party of India, seeking their response within seven days to Abhishek Banerjee’s disqualification petition under the Constitution’s anti-defection law.The notices were issued on Tuesday, the same day…
Ayush (right) with Dr Rajesh Vishwakarma (left), his mother Mili and rehabilitation specialist Leena Ahmedabad: As a baby, Ayush Das wouldn’t respond to the sound of a rattle. A doctor gave his worried parents the grim news: their son’s inner ear had not developed fully, rendering him hearing impaired. At the age of 6 months…
Murder accused paraded through village in Fatehabad to retrace crime scene Hisar: Fatehabad Police on Wednesday took five accused in the Jhalania murder case through the village to retrace the sequence of events and identify locations linked to the killing, days after the murder and a purported social media threat triggered fear among residents.The accused…
Guwahati: Gauhati high court on Wednesday admitted a public interest litigation filed by former Congress MLA Debabrata Saikia, alleging that the devastating July floods in upper Assam were a “man made disaster”, caused by illegal riverbed mining, official negligence and uncoordinated dam releases.A division bench headed by chief justice Ashutosh Kumar heard Saikia’s counsel, KN…
Two men arrested for allegedly using a same-sex dating app to lure men to secluded locations, where they were assaulted, threatened and robbed; SUV allegedly used in the crimes seized. Jaipur: Police here Wednesday busted a gang for allegedly using a same-sex dating app to lure men to isolated locations, where they were assaulted, threatened…
Maintaining the Dasgaja buffer remains a challenge. Photo credit: ANI India and Nepal are turning to drones to map a stretch of their border that, on paper, is supposed to remain empty.The area is known as Dasgaja, the no-man’s-land or buffer zone along the India-Nepal boundary. But on the ground, parts of it have been…
3 killed and 4 injured in Brooklyn Belt Parkway Crash/Image: X Three teenagers were killed and four other people injured after two vehicles collided on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.The crash happened at around 11:35pm on Tuesday near 65th Street in Bay Ridge, when a black Cadillac Escalade carrying five teenagers collided with…
‘Lifetime trauma’: Netizens react after child allegedly watches Yash’s ‘Toxic – A Fairytale for Grown-Ups’ despite ‘A’ certificate Yash starrer Toxic: A Fairytale for Grown-Ups arrived in theatres today. But along with box office buzz, the film triggered a heated online debate over its ‘A’ certificate and reports of children being present at screenings meant…
