Bengaluru: Lokayukta police trapped and arrested a public prosecutor (PP) after she accepted a bribe of Rs 5,000 from a man in her office at the City Civil and Sessions Court Monday afternoon.The accused PP is Savitha Naveen Patil, 55, serving in CCH-54 court.According to Lokayukta officials, a 40-year-old Banashankari resident approached them alleging the…
Chennai: From damaged roads and irregular garbage collection to sewage overflow and water supply disruptions, Tambaram residents grapple with numerous civic problems every day. Though Tambaram corporation rolled out a mobile application to register complaints, it remains inaccessible to residents due to poor awareness.There are more than 10 lakh residents living in Tambaram corporation limits….
Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene in the long-pending Tummidihatti barrage issue. He said if the Centre could facilitate the transfer of seven mandals from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh for the Polavaram project, it should also assist Telangana in securing around 2,000 acres of land in…
The woman worked as a security guard at a private company in Badshahpur Gurgaon: A 55-year-old woman died during treatment after she was allegedly hit by a speeding motorcycle near Ghamroj toll on the Sohna-Gurgaon road on May 28. Bhondsi police on Sunday registered a case against an unidentified rider.The deceased, Bhagwati, was a native…
Berhampore: The BSF has pushed back 17 Bangladeshi nationals into Bangladesh through the Raninagar border point. The Murshidabad district administration on Saturday had handed over these individuals to the BSF from the Lalgola holding centre, following the verification and confirmation of their identities by Bangladesh. BSF officials brought them to the Roshanbagh Sector Headquarters and…
Ghaziabad: The district consumer disputes redressal commission has partly allowed a complaint filed by an Indirapuram resident against the developers of Shipra Krishna Srishti, holding the builders responsible for failing to hand over the original registered sale deed of a flat to the lender as required under a tripartite agreement.The commission directed the builders to…
Panaji: The Enough is Enough (EiE) movement has formally written to Goa governor, Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju, demanding an independent inquiry into what it describes as the illegal continuation of offshore casino vessels in the Mandovi river, allegedly in violation of provisions of the Goa Public Gambling Act.In a detailed representation submitted by Justice Ferdino…
Varanasi: Twenty-nine years after a custodial death, a Varanasi court on Monday sentenced the then in-charge of Sundarpur police outpost, the investigating officer and the doctor who conducted the postmortem examination.Senior prosecution officer (CB-CID) Ganga Sharan said Additional District and Sessions Judge/Special Judge (Anti-Corruption) Amit Kumar Tiwari sentenced Dr KK Jain, who conducted the post-mortem,…
Out of 3.22 lakh complaints filed in district commissions since Jan 1990, 45,167 cases remain pending Ahmedabad: There are 27 consumer commissions, including the Gujarat State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, in the state are currently operating without full-time presidents.Beyond the leadership vacuum, there are 48 vacant positions for non-govt members and 152 unfilled support staff…
Deep Tools’ RK Road chemical effluent tank in which three maintenanceworkers died on Monday in Ludhiana’s industrial zone. Ludhiana: Toxic fumes inhaled during an illegal, unequipped cleaning of a hand tools factory’s chemical effluent tank on Monday killed a man and his son alongside an industrial worker.Police have charged the management of Deep Tools with…
