Kolkata: Two minutes saved Faruque Mondal from getting buried under tonnes of concrete and steel on Wednesday.Mondal, 30, a labourer from Basanti in the Sundarbans, had just stepped out of the under-construction warehouse in Taratala with fellow worker Vijay Yadav to carry a stack of iron bars when the structure behind them collapsed.“I had just…
Ghaziabad: Two sisters were killed and their cousin critically injured after the bike they were triple-riding collided with a container truck near the Dasna cut of Eastern Peripheral Expressway on Tuesday.The incident occurred around 7.30pm. The sisters were identified as Anshika (17) and Pari (14), residents of Muradpur village in Hapur district, and the injured…
FN Souza’s projector was sold for Rs 36.1 lakh, 64 times its higher estimate Panaji: Renowned artist of Goan-origin Francis Newton Souza’s artwork St Sebastian (1957) fetched Rs 7.3 crore, more than double of its higher estimate, at the recently-held Saffronart Summer Online Auction.Estimated to be between Rs 1.8-2.8 crore at the time, the work…
Ahmedabad: A traffic jam outside Ahmedabad railway station ended with a man in handcuffs. The man allegedly posed as an IPS officer, threatened railway police personnel and assaulted a constable during a confrontation outside Ahmedabad railway station.A day later, railway police arrested him and booked him under multiple sections of the BNS.The incident occurred on…
District town planner Babita Gupta reported that four demolition drives were conducted during May 2026. Panchkula: A district-level anti-encroachment committee has ordered a targeted enforcement campaign to curb illegal construction, focusing immediate actions along controlled areas, national highways, and designated 30-meter restricted zones. DC Satpal Sharma directed executive engineers from the NHAI and the PWD…
Chetan Chaudhary (L), Siya Goyal (C), Ketan Agarwal (R) PUNE: A discarded passport, thousands of phone calls and alleged secret meetings have emerged as key clues in the investigation into the murder of realtor Ketan Agarwal, with police claiming his fiancée Siya Goyal and her alleged lover Chetan Chaudhary conspired to kill him.Police said Goyal…
Itanagar: A 16-year-old student and a dog were rescued on Wednesday after flash floods swept them into the reservoir of the 405 MW Panyor Lower Hydroelectric Project in Keyi Panyor district of Arunachal Pradesh.A Class XI student, Bishu Sinha of Yazali Govt Higher Secondary School, was washed away from his home in the NEEPCO colony…
Lucknow: Story of Sarah Moin’s success in the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) is not one of just her determination but also of the support she received from advocate Amar Jain, blind by birth, dedicated to fighting for accessibility and disability rights.Born to jeweller Anil Jain and homemaker Anita Jain, Amar studied at a blind…
Jaipur: A 21-year-old woman who had been missing for more than a week was found dead in a well in Jaipur’s Jamwa Ramgarh area Tuesday night, prompting police to investigate the circumstances surrounding her death.Police said the body was in an advanced state of decomposition and is suspected to have been in the well for…
New Delhi: BJP Wednesday accused Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and his son Priyank, a Karnataka minister, of “land grab” in their home state for ostensible purposes as diverse as setting up of ventures in aerospace and defence and promotion of the Pali language.It is the Congress dispensation in the state that has enriched them through…
