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Techie dies after car falls into water filled pit in Noida
Noida: A 27-year-old software engineer died after his car went out of control and fell into a 20-feet-deep water-filled pit that was dug for the basement of an under-construction building in Sector…
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Modi succumbing to Trump’s pressure: CPI General Secretary
Khammam (Telangana): CPI General Secretary D Raja on Sunday, January 18, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of succumbing to the pressure exerted by US President Donald Trump with regard to higher tariffs…
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BLO hospitalised, TMC blames ‘constant SIR workload’
Kolkata: A Booth Level Officer (BLO) in South 24 Parganas district involved in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has been hospitalised for a brain stroke, an official said on Sunday.…
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Advocates cannot seek information under RTI Act for clients’ cases: CIC
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled that advocates cannot use the Right to Information (RTI) Act to seek details regarding cases they are handling for clients, observing that using…
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UP: Police arrest man for kidnapping, molesting 10-year-old schoolgirl
Meerut: Police here have arrested a man for allegedly kidnapping a 10-year-old schoolgirl and molesting her in Meerut district, an official said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday around 10.30…
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Central committee on Telangana-Andhra water disputes to hold first meet on Jan 30
Hyderabad: The central committee formed to look into water disputes between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana is set to hold its first meeting in New Delhi on January 30. The committee was formed…
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Union minister launches open-sea marine fish farming project in Andamans
Sri Vijaya Puram: Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday launched the country’s first-ever open-sea marine fish farming project in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Singh travelled by boat for nearly an hour…
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Court sentences man to life imprisonment in 5-year-old girl’s rape-murder case
Ghaziabad: A special POCSO court sentenced a convict to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1.30 lakh in connection with the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in 2019.…
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Cold cases purge: After 5 decades, Mumbai court shutters Rs 7.65 theft case
Mumbai: Nearly 50 years after the theft of Rs 7.65, a Mumbai court has finally dropped the curtain on a 1977 cold case involving two unidentified accused and a complainant who remained…
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Escaped jail inmate recaptured after encounter in UP’s Kannauj: Police
Kannauj: An inmate who had escaped from the Kannauj district jail earlier this month was arrested on Sunday, January 18, after he was injured in a police encounter, a senior police officer…
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Bengal SIR: ECI sets target of seven lakh hearings per day
Kolkata: With less than a month left for both completion of the hearings on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal as well as the publication of the…
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IndiGo flight makes emergency landing in Lucknow after bomb threat
New Delhi: An IndiGo Airlines flight carrying 238 people was forced to make an emergency landing at Lucknow airport on Sunday, January 18, after a bomb threat was reported mid-air. The aircraft,…
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Javed Akhtar’s remarks on Rahman’s concerns not in sync with reality of Muslims: Mehbooba
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar was contradicting the lived realities of Indian Muslims by dismissing music maestro A R Rahman’s concerns about the alleged communalisation…
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Need to erase caste from mind to end discrimination: RSS chief Bhagwat
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that if caste discrimination is to be eliminated from social practice, then caste must first be erased from the mind. In…
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Brazil, Nigeria emerge key export markets for Indian Pharma
New Delhi: Brazil and Nigeria are emerging as key export destinations for Indian pharmaceutical firms amid global economic uncertainties, according to the commerce ministry data. Nigeria emerged as one of the fastest…
