Aarav Agarwal wants to represent India at the Paralympics Kolkata: A class 10 student of La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata, Aarav Agarwal (16), has won two medals at the First Para National Rowing Championship in Pune, marking another milestone in a sporting journey shaped by resilience and discipline.Representing West Bengal, Agarwal won gold in the…
The policy proposes to reduce charges if agencies laying utility cables restore the roads on their own Mumbai: BMC will soon introduce a revised policy to incentivise agencies undertaking road trenching to restore excavated stretches. The policy will also make it mandatory for an agency to lay utility ducts if a trench extends beyond 50m.At…
Ex-WFI chief Brij Bhushan acquitted in wrestlers’ sexual harassment case NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday acquitted former BJP MP and former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in the sexual harassment case filed by women wrestlers. Suspended WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar was also acquitted. Additional chief judicial magistrate…
Chennai: A 56-year-old mattress trader drowned after his autorickshaw plunged into Krishna canal near Uthukottai in Tiruvallur district on Saturday.Police said Murugesan, 56, of Surapet near Puzhal, and his associate, Suman, 44, travelled from village to village selling mattresses. On Saturday, they finished work at Ponthavakkam near Uthukottai and stopped near Krishna canal. While Suman…
Patna: BJP MLA from Alinagar in Darbhanga district, Maithili Thakur, on Sunday slammed Purnia MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav over ‘mocking’ the Hindu religion through a skit performed outside Parliament on Friday. The skit was staged in protest against the alleged theft of offerings or donations made at the Ram Lalla temple in Ayodhya,…
Shivakumar leads Karnataka cabinet revamp Twenty new ministers are set to be inducted into the Karnataka government as the state cabinet undergoes a major expansion, with the swearing-in ceremony likely to take place at 4 pm on Monday, after the governor approved their inclusion.G S Patil has been chosen as the new speaker of the…
KOLKATA: The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) on Monday arrested a third associate of suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)-linked operative Hamim Mondal as part of its probe into an alleged Pakistan-backed terror module.According to police, the accused, identified as Aditya Singh, was arrested from Howrah after questioning Hamim Mondal and his woman friend.Aditya Singh allegedly worked…
In Maharashtra, the practice of conducting premarital background checks is rapidly gaining traction after the Lohagarh murder case MUMBAI: Around the time ‘Siya Point’ at Lohagad Fort—where a Pune woman allegedly pushed her fiancé Ketan Agarwal to his death in June—began drawing curious visitors, detective agencies in Mumbai said they noticed a rise in enquiries…
Former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh stated the allegations were a conspiracy and he had faith in justice New Delhi: Hours after a Delhi court acquitted former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in the alleged sexual harassment case filed by women wrestlers, he on Monday termed the allegations against…
32-year-old dies, friend injured in accident Chennai: A 32-year-old man died, and his friend suffered severe injuries after a lorry hit their motorcycle on the Vandalur-Minjur Outer Ring Road near Kundrathur. The lorry driver, Ramesh Kumar, 43, has been arrested.The victim, identified as Sundar of Ramanathapuram, was travelling from Pallavaram towards Avadi with his friend…
