Bengaluru: Karnataka home minister Priyank Kharge and chief minister DK Shivakumar Tuesday reiterated that peaceful protest is fundamental to democracy and promised a review of police action against anti-SIR demonstrators in Bengaluru.Activists, however, said assurances were not enough and demanded withdrawal of the police licensing order that restricts all protests in the city to Freedom…
Hyderabad: A 29-year-old software engineer allegedly died by suicide at Golf Edge Apartments in Nanakramguda on Monday morning.The deceased, Bharath Kumar, was employed with a software company in Bengaluru and hailed from Suryapet district. According to police, he had arrived in Hyderabad two days before the incident after his marriage had been fixed. He was…
Truck with 242 pending challans, Rs 35.43 lakh in penalties impounded; wrong-side driving, illegal parking and lane violations under scanner Gurgaon: Motorists visiting the traffic police office in Sector 28 to pay traffic challans will no longer have to depend on a single payment window. The police have expanded the facility from one to six…
Anusua Saha, who attacked former CM Mamata Banerjee Kolkata: A drunk civic volunteer, armed with a knife, came within a few metres of former chief minister Mamata Banerjee as she stepped out of her Kalighat home on Tuesday to inaugurate a Durga Puja, the first by her this season. After an FIR was lodged, Kalighat…
According to the Bureau of Indian Standards, the permissible limit of nitrate in drinking water is 45 mg/L Noida: Groundwater in Yamuna floodplains of Noida is contaminated with dangerous levels of nitrate. In at least two samples of the underground water tested by Central Ground Water Board in 2025, these levels were almost double the…
Margao: Members of the South Goa Advocates Association (SGAA) staged a protest at the South Goa collectorate on Tuesday over inordinate delays by mamlatdars in processing mutation and partition files, alleging maladministration, inefficiency and malpractices in the district’s revenue administration.The advocates claimed that the standard operating procedure (SOP) issued by the collector on Dec 24,…
Varanasi: Police on Monday night arrested a 32-year-old man for allegedly sexually assaulting the 5-year-old daughter of his neighbour in the Jaitpura police station area.On Monday afternoon, the girl’s father lodged a complaint with police that the accused, Mohammad Wasim, entered his house and sexually assaulted the child.Police registered a case and traced the accused…
Gujarat deputy CM Harsh Sanghavi and DGP G S Malik with officials at the challenge Ahmedabad: Imagine jumping on a moving train from a height and landing perfectly upright, on your feet. Coders at the Sentinel Innovation Hackathon 2026 achieved a similar feat as they successfully pinpointed a vehicle with a specific number plate from…
Ludhiana: Thieves stole three tyres of a Hyundai i20 parked outside a house in Dharampura late Monday night and fled before they could remove the fourth wheel after being spotted by passersby.Police said the accused arrived in another Hyundai i20 and parked it alongside the victim’s vehicle. CCTV footage shows them using a jack to…
Bathinda: Anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota was shot dead by a chemist in Mansa town for objecting to alleged illegal sale of synthetic drugs during a confrontation he livestreamed on Facebook, sending shockwaves across Punjab and triggering sharp attacks from the opposition against the AAP govt.With his mobile video camera rolling, the 45-year-old arrived at…
