Mumbai: An interior designer’s quick pit stop to answer nature’s call by the roadside, an 80-year-old retired teacher’s return home with a freshly exchanged library book, a 12-year-old boy’s walk back home from school, the routine motorcycle commute of an Aarey slum dweller who had finally helped his family out of poverty and a 19-year-old…
There was a time when the wedding car had one job: get the bride or groom to the venue without breaking down, but today it makes an entrance of its own. Think vintage classics, sleek BMWs and Mercedes, stately Rolls-Royces, flower-covered Ambassadors, and, for those going all out —supercars. The humble wedding ride is clearly…
Chennai: CISF personnel recovered three live rounds and a magazine from the hand baggage of a woman passenger during security screening at Terminal 1 of Chennai airport on Saturday. The passenger, who was travelling with her family to Kochi, could not produce documents or authorisation for carrying the ammunition.During pre-embarkation screening of domestic passengers, CISF…
Revanth writes to ECI, seeks 4-wk extension for electoral roll claims Hyderabad: With nearly one in every three Telangana voters set to face scrutiny under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Saturday urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to extend the claims and objections period…
Police arrested four men for assaulting a man over road accident dispute Gurgaon: Four men were arrested on Friday for allegedly assaulting a man and threatening to kill him following a dispute over a road accident on Aug 16.According to the complainant, Pradeep (30), his uncle’s Scorpio had collided with an unknown truck near a…
Anukul and wife Reba, on way to Kailash-Mansarovar, were just two hours from the Nepal-China border when they were stopped and asked to turn back Kolkata: For retired schoolteachers Anukul Poddar and wife Reba Ray Poddar, the ordeal is finally nearing an end. After narrowly escaping the devastating disaster in Nepal, the Basirhat couple boarded…
Noida: A man arrested on suspicion of raping and strangling a six-year-old girl in Greater Noida’s Ecotech 3 was killed in a police encounter hours later, police said. The accused, a 32-year-old neighbour, was held after the child’s body was found stuffed in a sack and dumped near bushes by a pond. Police alleged he…
Margao: The opposition on Saturday launched a scathing attack on BJP govt over the Porvorim casino firing incident, questioning the collapse of law and order and alleged leaks in the investigation.State Congress’ media & communication department chairperson Amarnath Panjikar wanted to know who was leaking CCTV footage and investigation details to the media even as…
Gorakhpur: A 15-year-old Class 10 student of a private girls’ inter college was allegedly raped for four months by a 29-year-old teacher, who is also the son of the school manager, in the Gola area of Gorakhpur. Police have registered an FIR against the accused and launched a search to nab him.The accused allegedly coerced…
The case dates back to July 2008, when ACB caught an assistant commissioner of land development allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh Ahmedabad: A police inspector posted earlier with Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Dipak Vyas, is in the soup as a special court has issued a perjury notice to him for his alleged attempt…
