New Delhi: A man who raped and molested his minor stepdaughters will serve out the 15-year prison term handed by a trial court, Delhi High Court has said.Dismissing the appeal of the stepfather, the high court lamented the suffering both the girls had to undergo and noted that one of the children passed away after…
Mumbai: A day after the Bombay high court warned the BMC that if methane emissions caused by mismanagement of Kanjurmarg dumping site and their ill-effects are not curtailed soon, it would be restrained to stop all “activities” there and would require authorities to look for an alternative site, Justices Girish Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe visited…
Bengaluru: A small, dissolving tube developed in a Bengaluru lab is moving a step closer to hospital use, offering a way to avoid repeat procedures after major abdominal surgeries.The device, called the “Asthana Stent”, is the result of a collaboration between liver transplant surgeon Sonal Asthana of Aster CMI Hospital and researchers led by Kaushik…
Hyderabad: Forty-seven Maoists of Dadakaranya Special Zone Committee (DKSZC), including divisional committee member and in charge of South Bastar divisional committee (DVC) Hemla Iythu alias Vijja, have surrendered before Telangana police, director-general of police B Shivadhar Reddy said at a press briefing on Saturday.Police said the surrender of senior leaders of the CPI (Maoist) South…
KOLKATA: For 50-year-old Benji, the anguish of disenfranchisement has brought with it the heartbreak of being orphaned again.An orphan from Kerala, his home for the past 27 years has been his employer’s family in Beleghata. But the Election Commission’s diktat has severed his ‘formal’ link with octogenarian Padmarani Baral, who he considers his mother. During…
Panaji: Members of Ponnjekars Against Casinos have filed a criminal complaint at the Panaji police station against directors of six offshore casinos operating on the Mandovi river.Alleging that the casinos are permitting children and individuals under 21 to board the vessels, the activists want an FIR filed against the owners and a forensic audit of…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has held that in a criminal prosecution for bigamy, marriage cannot be presumed merely from cohabitation or from the birth of a child, and has upheld the acquittal of a man accused of contracting a second marriage during the subsistence of his first marriage.The case arose from a complaint filed…
Ludhiana: At least seven women were injured Saturday afternoon after a major explosion sparked a massive fire at a steel factory in the village of Bishanpura.The blast occurred at the facility near Doraha, sending thick plumes of smoke across the industrial belt. Emergency services responded with more than 50 fire tenders to battle the blaze,…
Times News NetworkChandigarh: Cyber police registered a case against unknown miscreants for duping a city-based woman of Rs 49 lakh on the pretext of online investment. The businesswoman from Sector 18, Chandigarh, said while surfing social media one day, she came across a speech by a minister, about a scheme which was “Sebi regulated.” She…
Pune: The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) has announced that applications for duplicate marksheets, passing certificates, and migration certificates will be handled entirely online starting May 1.The reform eliminates the long-standing requirement for school recommendation letters and physical record verification, mandating that certificates be issued within a window of three…
