Ranchi: A 16-year-old girl from West Singhbhum, trafficked six years ago, was rescued in Delhi in a joint operation by Chaibasa police, Delhi Police and Mission Mukti Foundation.Lured to Delhi for domestic work, she was later sold in Mumbai for Rs 1 lakh and forced into marriage, in which she faced persistent abuse. Traffickers allegedly…
FSSAI suspended a Tripura water company’s license and banned a Punjab supplement. Inspections revealed serious food safety and regulatory violations at the water facility. NEW DELHI: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has suspended the licence of a packaged drinking water manufacturer in Tripura and prohibited the manufacture, storage, distribution and sale…
Kolkata: Even as all coercive action against NEET protesters has been suspended following the recent Supreme Court order, Kolkata Police has lodged two more FIRs against actor Sreelekha Mitra on July 30 and Aug 2 in connection with the controversial poster on PM Narendra Modi that she had displayed at the protest on July 24.An…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has granted bail to a visually challenged man (33) who was booked for raping a college student (17) on the false pretext of releasing her from possession of ghosts.Justice Shyam Chandak on July 30 found “substance” in the submission of his advocate Ashley Cusher that “prima facie, this is a…
New Delhi: Conversion of properties from leasehold to freehold in Delhi is an important right available to citizens, the high court has said, flagging the pendency of more than 1,300 such applications with Delhi Development Authority (DDA), for which the agency has collected over Rs 155 crore.Conversion enables citizens to freely deal with, transfer and…
CHENNAI: The Union govt has granted 10 projects totalling Rs 785.21 crore from the power system development fund (PSDF) for renovating and modernising substations, establishing technical and IT infrastructure, installing bus reactors, communication & data acquisition systems, and setting up battery storage system (BESS) in Tamil Nadu, said minister of state for power Shripad Naik.Responding…
Patna: The Bankipur assembly bypoll marked a setback for both BJP’s Neeraj Kumar Sinha and RJD’s Rekha Kumari Gupta.Sinha, a grassroots BJP worker and youth leader, was chosen after the party weighed multiple options during candidate selection. He was fielded after the seat fell vacant following former MLA Nitin Nabin’s election to the Rajya Sabha….
CID sleuths and police personnel search a premises in Ranchi on Monday Ranchi/Daltonganj: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Monday raided 18 locations across Jharkhand over its ongoing investigation into the alleged irregularities in the examinations conducted by Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC), officials said. Former JPSC chairman L Khiyangte was questioned by CID for…
Sports meet endsPlayers of Jawahar Vidya Mandir (JVM), Shyamali, won laurels at the CBSE cluster-III badminton championship, sponsored by CBSE, New Delhi, which was held at Delhi Public School, Gaya, from July 31 to Aug 2. The tournament witnessed participation from 380 shuttlers representing 70 selected schools from Bihar and Jharkhand.Guru PurnimaSarala Birla Public School,…
Defence minister Rajnath Singh addresses the AFHQ Civilian Services Day celebrations at DRDO Bhawan in New Delhi on Monday NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday underlined the need to deepen integration between the military and civil components of the defence ministry to foster greater synergy within the defence ecosystem to tackle evolving security…
