In recent weeks, commercial LPG rates have risen by Rs 70 per cylinder, onions have crossed Rs 70 a kg and eggs, sugar and maida have become dearer Kolkata: The joy of hopping from one pandal to another through the night, stopping occasionally for an egg roll, a fish fry or a steaming plate of…
Residents have alleged 131 extra units were built in the society Ghaziabad: The Allahabad High Court has directed the developer of Express Garden Apartment in Indirapuram to file an affidavit in a case related to extra units in the society. The developer was sanctioned to build 536 flats but ended up constructing 667, according to…
Margao: For months, Amit Patkar has kept his distance from the Congress. Now, for the first time since his removal as state president, he has spoken of joining the Goy Rakhon Yatra, which he had planned to welcome in Curchorem with his workers on Tuesday. The party, he says, hasn’t even told him the Curchorem…
Silhouette illustration of a late-night phone snatching as a biker’s pillion rider grabs a female student’s smartphone from behind while she rides pillion on a two-wheeler with her friend, highlighting urban street crime and safety concerns. Ahmedabad: Two separate incidents of phone-snatching were reported in the city. Two men on a motorcycle allegedly snatched an…
Punjab Congress president Pargat Singh Bathinda: Political functionaries cutting across party lines hit out at the AAP govt in Punjab over the killing of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa on Tuesday.Punjab Congress president Pargat Singh and former president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring accused the state govt of miserably failing to contain the drug…
The move is aimed at curbing irregularities under the state’s ‘one district one registration’ scheme, which allows documents to be registered across a district rather than only in the jurisdiction where the property is located Pune: The state govt has made prior scrutiny by senior registration officials mandatory for property documents presented for registration outside…
Surat: Six workers sustained burn injuries after a boiler explosion triggered a major fire at a textile dyeing unit in Udhna on Tuesday evening. The incident occurred at Krishan Silk Mill, where an oil pipe near a ground-floor boiler caught fire, fire officials said.Surat Fire and Emergency Services (SFES) received an emergency call at around…
Dimapur: A total of 19 houses were burned and 21 others vandalised in a recent clash between two communities under Pungro subdivision of Kiphire district, according to a comprehensive damage assessment report released by the Kiphire district administration on Tuesday.The district administration, led by Pungro ADC Hotolu Sema, along with police personnel and representatives of…
ARRESTED IN AHMEDABADLucknow: A 37-year-old Lucknow man, who collected around Rs 5 crore from several people on the promise of securing them govt jobs, staged his own kidnapping to evade mounting pressure from those demanding their money back, police said.The accused, Satyaratna Dixit, a resident of Madiaon, was traced to a hotel in Ahmedabad, Gujarat,…
Jaipur: Special Operations Group (SOG) Monday arrested a man accused of bringing candidates to a paper-leak network that allegedly charged them lakhs of rupees to access and solve a leaked recruitment examination paper.The man, identified as Vinod Kumar Jat alias Vinod Rewad, allegedly supplied candidates to Arun Sharma alias Rajendra Sharma, who taught them the…
