New Delhi: A 32-year-old YouTuber has been arrested for allegedly targeting women riders and girls by deliberately crashing into their vehicles, stalking and harassing them, and uploading videos of the incidents on social media to gain popularity and earn through monetisation of views.Gurman Singh allegedly operated a page and a channel where he uploaded objectionable…
Mumbai: Mumbai Central Prison, more commonly known as Arthur Road Jail, has completed a century housing the city’s most dangerous and controversial residents — from the smuggler barons of the 1960s to the rival gangs who turned the prison into a battlefield in the 1990s, to the present-day white-collar accused who are vocal about the…
Bengaluru: The persistent menace of stray cattle blocking busy roads has now led to legal action, with City Market traffic police filing a case against unidentified owners of cows that disrupted traffic and endangered commuters near the bustling Market Circle on SJP Road and adjoining roads.Police said the cattle frequently blocked roads, fought with each…
A drug peddler, Shanmugam, who smuggled narcotics drugs, was arrested by the Chennai city police from a hideout in Maharashtra and seized methamphetamine, cocaine, LSD, MDMA tablets, cannabis, gold jewellery, vehicles and other incriminating materials. The accused was remanded in judicial custody after being brought to Chennai. Chennai: A man who smuggled narcotic drugs was…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has directed the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) to pay 9% annual interest to IT firm Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd on Rs 4.05 crore that it continued to retain even after an appellate authority set aside the provident fund demand against the company.Justice Nagesh Bheemapaka directed that the interest be…
Former Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim Kolkata: Fifty-one former Trinamool councillors met at a hotel in east Kolkata on Saturday to chalk out their future strategy amid mounting pressure on former mayor Firhad Hakim following the Taratala building collapse.Hakim skipped the meeting, which was chaired by MLAs Jawed Khan and Sandipan Saha.Addressing the gathering, Saha said,…
Panaji: After Goa got its very own cow breed Shwet Kapila, the state is likely to get a dog breed indigenous to it to its name. The Goa State Biodiversity Board (GSBB) has identified a breed of local dog Luthi, which is thought to be peculiar to the state.The board is now on the lookout…
Varanasi: Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed in separate lightning strikes as thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rain swept through Sonbhadra and Mirzapur districts on Friday. The sudden change in weather also uprooted trees and electric poles, disrupted power supply and caused property damage across the region.Two of the deaths occurred in Sonbhadra, where…
Ahmedabad: The admission committee has completed the first round of degree engineering seat allotments in Gujarat. Out of 41,688 participating students, 33,993 were allotted seats, while 7,687 left empty-handed due to insufficient choices.Accounting for nearly 50% occupancy, 33,993 of the total 61,316 available seats were filled. Admitted students must pay their token tuition fee online…
Jaspal Singh and Yuvraj Singh Parmar clinched the gold medal in the men’s double scull event at the Under-23 National Rowing Championship on Saturday at the Army Rowing Node, Pune. Pune: Chandigarh Rowing Association (CRA) rowers Jaspal Singh and Yuvraj Singh Parmar clinched the gold medal in the men’s double scull event at the Under-23…
