New Delhi: Twenty-six years after a good Samaritan was framed in a fake rape case by a cop as revenge for getting his colleague suspended in a molestation case, Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction of the policeman and a practising advocate who abetted him.In a recent order, HC also raised the issue of…
Mumbai: A 36-year-old Bangladeshi woman, who was in police custody pending deportation, escaped from the premises of Kurla Police Station in the early hours of Wednesday, triggering an internal probe and a manhunt. The Kurla police as well the city crime branch are trying to trace the woman.According to the police, the incident took place…
Bengaluru: The first phase of Census 2027, which involves house-to-house visits by enumerators, commenced in Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) limits Thursday. GBA special commissioner Munish Moudgil appealed to residents to cooperate with enumerators and complete the process, which is expected to take less than 10 minutes.Citizens were given the opportunity to self-enumerate on the census…
Chennai: A 66-year-old worker from Kerala died after being hit by a speeding car while walking along the roadside near Tiruvallur. Two others who were with him sustained serious injuries. The deceased, identified as Abubakkar from Malappuram district in Kerala, was working at a shop in Thandalam near Tiruvallur. He was walking towards Thandalam with…
Hyderabad: Furious with municipal staff for not clearing garbage from their area for months, about 50 residents of a ward under the Mahabubabad municipality recently marched into the civic office in protest with bags of waste in hand. The irked residents of Ward No. 21, who were accompanied by their elected member, alleged that garbage…
Kolkata: “You (Election Commission of India) can appoint judges also under Section 26 (of Representation of People Act) as polling officers… I am ready to go,” said Justice Krishna Rao of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday, slamming the EC for not producing notifications, indicating whether assistant professors could be appointed as presiding polling officers…
According to them, three individuals — Rupeesh Roy (Right), Manisha Chauhan and Aditya Anand (Left) — created multiple WhatsApp groups using QR codes, each adding more than 800 members NOIDA: Two accounts on social media site X operated from Pakistan fanned violence during the April 13 labour protest for a hike in minimum wages, Noida…
Panaji/Mapusa: Less than 15 days after a fire at Arambol beach gutted six private shacks, six cottages of the Dallas Beach Resort at Ashvem were gutted in a fire on Thursday night.The blaze, which was reported around 8.45pm, quickly engulfed the wooden structures of the resort near the Ajoba temple. While the property sustained extensive…
Varanasi: Two Muslim men from Gorakhpur, taking two Hindu women with them to board a Delhi-bound train, were arrested in Azamgarh on Wednesday evening. On the basis of evidence recovered from their mobile phones, it was derived the youths had allegedly enticed the women posing as Hindu.The men and the women were intercepted by activists…
Ahmedabad: A 39-year-old woman from Thaltej filed a complaint with Vastrapur police alleging assault, criminal trespass and criminal intimidation amid a dispute over redevelopment work near her apartment complex. According to the complaint registered on Wednesday, the woman was at home with her mother and her 13-year-old son, who is disabled. She stated that demolition…
