Buxar: The body of a 60-year-old man was found in a field at Maniya village in Buxar on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Sitaram Thakur, son of late Moni Thakur and a resident of Chhatarpur village under Dhansoi police station area.Acting on information, Dhansoi police reached the spot, took custody of the body and…
Kharge demanded that cases be registered under Untouchability Act and those involved be arrested. NEW DELHI: Leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge alleged in RS Thursday people associated with BJP “purified” the stage at Ramlila Maidan in Haldwani, two days after he made a speech there on Aug 8.Leader…
Kolkata: Security has been tightened across Kolkata for Independence Day, with police stepping up surveillance amid cracking of JeM-Shahzad Bhatti and ISI-backed terror and spying modules in the city in the past month.According to sources at Lalbazar, 6,000 police personnel will be deployed across the city on Friday for the occasion.The security has been planned…
Mumbai: Nishit Patel, a UK-based businessman who was granted conditional bail from a sessions court on Wednesday in a cheating case, has been arrested in another case by the police.He was granted bail in a case where he along with others was accused of duping actor Javed Jaffrey and his wife of Rs 17 crore….
New Delhi: Former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia Thursday urged Delhi High Court to dismiss CBI’s revision petition against their discharge in the liquor policy case, arguing that the same was filed with “unprecedented haste” and in the “most unserious manner”.In separate applications, the AAP founders have questioned if the CBI…
Manu Iyer and Sridhar Parthasarathy Chennai: Bluehill.VC, a venture capital firm, has closed its Rs 400 crore maiden fund, with institutional participation from SIDBI, govts of Kerala and Uttar Pradesh, alongside family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNIs) from India and the Middle East.It is the maiden fund of the deep-tech focused firm founded by Manu…
A student-youth parliament organised at VKSU Ara: Students, youth and research scholars participated in a Student-Youth Parliament organised by the All India Students’ Association (AISA) and the Revolutionary Youth Association (RYA) at Veer Kunwar Singh University in Ara on Thursday.Participants raised concerns over paper leaks, examination irregularities, rising education fees, privatisation of education and growing…
The invitation for the event has been extended by Afghanistan charge d’affaires Mufti Noor Ahmad Noor New Delhi: As India and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan further intensify their pragmatic engagement focused on trade, humanitarian aid and regional security, Taliban will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Victory Day in the Afghanistan embassy in Delhi Monday. Victory Day…
Kolkata: Pakistani national Rana Rouf Khalid (36), who was arrested by Bengal STF on Wednesday for his alleged links with Pakistan’s ISI, had visited Kolkata at least six times since 2014-15, having spent between one and two months each at Topsia. His last visit was in Jan, said an officer.Rouf, who was introduced by his…
Mumbai: State govt on Thursday questioned the Indian Medical Association’s legal right to challenge amendments to two Acts that introduced the Certificate Course in Modern Pharmacology (CCMP) and allowed homeopaths to practise allopathy.“How are they aggrieved by this Act?” asked advocate general Milind Sathe, arguing before a special bench of Justices Riyaz Chagla and Farhan…
