Chennai: For three years, the enclosure at Arignar Anna Zoological Park housed a solitary presence — a male Indian wild ass that had outlived its companions. Visitors passed by, often unaware that the animal’s quiet pacing marked a longer story of loss and waiting. That stretch of isolation has now ended. Earlier this month, zoo…
Hyderabad: A 56-year-old software consultant working for a multinational company lost 2.92 crore over two months from Feb 24 after being lured into investing through fake stock trading platforms. Based on his complaint, Malkajgiri police registered a cheating case on Thursday and launched a probe.In February, the victim from Ramanthapur was added to a WhatsApp…
Gurgaon’s MCG has refused to clear construction and demolition waste from illegal structures demolished by the DTCP GURGAON: Drawing a clear line on responsibility after a demolition drive in the city, MCG has declined to lift construction and demolition (C&D) waste generated by enforcement actions carried out by the department of town and country planning…
Kolkata: The Election Commission’s revised polling data released on Friday shows that Bengal’s first-phase poll turnout, besides breaking all records in percentage terms, has also increased in absolute terms over the 2021 figure despite the SIR process shrinking the total electorate.Nearly 24 lakh more people voted in the 152 constituencies spread over 16 districts on…
Ahmedabad: An Ahmedabad rural sessions court has sentenced two men to life imprisonment for the murder of a woman, relying on CCTV footage and DNA evidence linking one of the accused to the crime scene.Additional sessions judge K S Trivedi convicted Ramshankar Maurya and Sunil Gautam in the case related to the killing of a…
Chandigarh: Pratap Singh Bajwa, leader of the opposition in the Punjab assembly, on Friday said the split within the Aam Aadmi Party in the Rajya Sabha had laid bare the party’s true character.He said the crisis was not ideological but rooted in a struggle for control over Punjab’s resources and public money.The Congress leader said…
Pune: Cybercrooks duped a Wakad-based woman (47) of Rs 24.28 lakh in an online task fraud between Oct and Nov last year under the pretext of completing online tasks.The woman lodged a complaint with the Wakad police on Thursday.An officer from the Wakad police said the crooks contacted the woman through a cellphone messaging app…
Lucknow: Lucknow police on Friday registered an FIR against a 36-year-old woman, suspected to be a resident of Uzbekistan, after she failed to produce valid travel documents and efforts to establish her identity and purpose of visit yielded no conclusive results.She was found wandering in a disoriented condition in the Naka Hindola area during routine…
Jaipur: Leader of Opposition Tikaram Jully, Friday, during his visit to Udaipur, questioned the state govt’s silence over the ‘Udaipur Files’ controversy, alleging that crucial details were being deliberately suppressed and asking who was being protected.Jully said that despite the police filing a chargesheet and confirming the video in question was authentic and not generated…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday launched a sharp attack on Arvind Kejriwal, a day after Raghav Chadha and six other MPs from Rajya Sabha left the party. The BJP described Kejriwal as the “Rahman Dakait of Delhi” and released fresh images of what it called “Sheeshmahal 2.”Delhi minister Parvesh Verma in a press…
