Bengaluru: What initially appeared to be routine order cancellations at a Flipkart delivery hub in north Bengaluru has now unravelled into an alleged fraud involving four delivery executives accused of swapping expensive products with fake items and pocketing the originals worth over Rs 4.2 lakh.The alleged fraud took place at Flipkart’s delivery office in Varadaraju…
Times News NetworkChennai/Salem: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Sunday called up the parents of the 10-year-old girl, who was murdered in Coimbatore and assured them the culprits would be punished..“Don’t worry, I am here for you,” Vijay assured the parents, according to sources at the secretariat. The child’s grandmother told Vijay no other child…
Osmannagar, Tellapur, hit by illegal borewell water trade Hyderabad: Private tanker operators are allegedly continuing large-scale illegal groundwater extraction in the Osmannagar and Tellapur areas on the city outskirts, even as authorities intensify surveillance around the twin reservoirs.Residents allege that private operators are drawing groundwater through borewells and supplying it as drinking water to apartments…
Gurgaon: Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (HVPNL) has suspended three officials following a major technical failure at a substation and a fire that triggered widespread outages across the city and halted Rapid Metro operations.The action against junior engineers (JEs) — Sandeep Singh, Brijesh and Sandeep Nain, all in charge of the Sector 72 substation —…
Kolkata: According to the preliminary postmortem report, cops on Sunday said South Dum Dum Municipality Trinamool councillor Sanjay Das died by suicide. However, cops are probing if there was provocation or external involvement.Police have also launched an inquiry into allegations that banners accusing Das of land grabbing, corruption and extortion were put up outside his…
Mapusa: Pre-monsoon rainfall on Sunday led to severe waterlogging on Mandrem road at Junaswada in Mandrem, leaving motorists stranded and triggering chaos amongst the residents. The deluge served as warning of what lies ahead for the area if drainage issues left unaddressed.Locals blame haphazard construction and state that stone fences are choking natural water outlets….
Varanasi: Body of a 15-year-old girl was found lying in a pool of blood almost 200 meters away from her home in a village under the limits of Padri police station area of Mirzapur district on Sunday morning.“We have arrested the girl’s boyfriend Sajan alias Rajan (18) and teams have been deployed for arrest of…
File photo of Hemant Modi in police custody Ahmedabad: Escaping the long arm of law takes audacity, knowledge of how the system works, and its loopholes. The case of Hemant Modi, the absconder-actor, who hoodwinked the system for 12 years, is unravelling act after act, role after role. Police say that Modi — an aspiring…
A three-day Punjab bus strike has been called off following state government’s intervention. Ludhiana: Public transport unions in Punjab have suspended a planned three-day strike that threatened to paralyse state-run bus networks, following a last-minute negotiation window opened by state officials.The Punjab Roadways, Punbus, and PRTC Contract Workers Union called off the walkout — originally…
Panchkula: In a move aimed at improving road safety and strengthening accident investigations, a training programme on the iRAD (Integrated Road Accident Database) app was held at the police commissioner’s office in Sector 4 Sunday.Developed by the ministry of road transport and highways in collaboration with the National Informatics Centre (NIC), the digital platform seeks…
