Kolkata: Income-tax officials on Friday raided CM Mamata Banerjee‘s poll nomination proposer Miraj Shah (also the trustee of one of the state’s biggest private educational institutions), and Trinamool’s Rashbehari candidate Debashis Kumar, prompting the CM to call BJP “cowards and spineless” and ask why it is so scared. “Ballots, and not bullets, win polls,” she…
This AI image is used for illustration Ghaziabad: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped while she was sleeping next to her family at a construction site in Niti Khand-2 and raped. Police said they have retrieved CCTV footage where the child can be seen with the accused and are trying to identify him.According to the…
Panaji: Congress MLA Carlos Alvares Ferreira hit out at the Goa police for what he said was ‘illegal action’ in booking the individual who uploaded the video of customers being solicited for prostitution at Baga. Ferreira said the Uttar Pradesh resident was booked only to save govt from the embarrassment of how low Goa’s tourism…
Ahmedabad: A 32-year-old driver living in Sanand taluka has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Samrat Choudhary, a day before the latter was sworn in as Bihar’s chief minister.“Shekhar Yadav, a native of Banka district in Bihar, allegedly called Choudhary’s office in Munger last Tuesday and issued death threats over the phone,” said SP…
Chandigarh: An NRI has filed a complaint against Ribhav Rishi, a manager with IDFC First Bank who has been arrested in connection with a Rs 116-crore scam linked to the Chandigarh municipal corporation, accusing him of embezzling Rs 1 crore from her bank account.The complainant, Taranjit Kaur Bains (77), a resident of Greater London, United…
Pune: MNS students’ wing chief Amit Thackeray on Friday demanded free hand to police to take strict action against drugs traffickers, accusing the state govt of remaining a mute spectator to trafficking of these in large quantities.“The quantity of drugs being trafficked to the state is quite alarming. There is something terribly wrong with the…
Jaisalmer: The state govt Friday reduced the security cover of Independent MLA from Sheo, Ravindra Singh Bhati, withdrawing three of his four personal security officers (PSOs) and leaving him with only one gunman.The order, issued by the Barmer superintendent of police on April 13, cited intelligence inputs and state policy governing security for legislators. It…
New Delhi: Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the constitutional amendment bill on delimitation is an attempt by BJP to change the electoral map of India in the guise of women’s reservation in legislatures because the governing party feared losing power.Calling it an anti-national act, he said there is…
An outrageous situation involving rapper and streamer Ice Spice is making headlines online as she was slapped by one of her fans at a McDonald’s restaurant in Los Angeles. It all started when a young lady approached her inside the restaurant and began speaking to her. Everything seemed fine until the fan tried to join…
MUMBAI: Vijay Singh, a former Indian defence secretary whose eligibility as a trustee has come under legal challenge, absented himself from the board meeting of the Bai Hirabai Jamsetji Tata Navsari Charitable Institution on Friday, the latest sign of an intensifying governance dispute within India’s most powerful philanthropic network.The challenge was brought by Mehli Mistry,…
