Patna: A 32-year-old shopkeeper was shot dead by bike-borne assailants in Digha police station area of Patna on Friday. The deceased, identified as Surendra Sahu, was refilling gas cylinders at his shop when two attackers arrived on a motorcycle and opened fire. A bullet struck him in the stomach, triggering panic in the area.The assailants…
Lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha condemned the latest attac. NEW DELHI: The death toll in Friday night’s terror attack on migrant labourers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam rose to two on Saturday after a Chhattisgarh worker succumbed to injuries in hospital, officials told news agency PTI.The attack took place late Friday night in the Kelam area…
Kolkata: Cops have started a probe after two bike-borne miscreants snatched a purse from a 34-year-old woman on Strand Road near the Adi Bhootnath Mandir early on Thursday morning.According to police, the incident took place around 4.15 am on July 30, when Divya Mohta, a resident of Strand Road, was walking along the stretch when…
Victim, Mohansingh Parmar (L), The prime accused, Sagar Bhanusali (R) VASAI: Waliv police have cracked the attempted murder of Vasai-based industrialist Mohansingh Parmar (46), arresting seven persons, including the alleged mastermind, who investigators say plotted the attack to evade repaying him Rs 32 crore and gain complete control of their company, GSM Foils.The prime accused,…
Delhi court has rescheduled Aaftab Poonawala’s (R) psychiatric consultations to Saturdays. This change avoids clashes with the ongoing Shraddha Walkar murder case trial. NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday directed jail authorities to reschedule psychiatric consultations of Aaftab Amin Poonawala from Tuesdays to Saturdays to avoid a clash with the ongoing day-to-day trial in…
Chennai: The proportion of schoolchildren in the city with impaired fasting glucose — a measure used to identify prediabetes — rose to 28.1% from 3.1% among girls and to 26.4% from 3.5% among boys over 17 years, a new study found.The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews,…
Patna: In a joint operation, the Excise Department and the Excise Intelligence Bureau (EIB) seized banned medicines worth Rs 32 lakh and arrested one person from an alleged illegal storage facility in Bank Colony, Shivpur, under Mehndiganj police station area of Patna late Wednesday night.During the raid, officials recovered 240 bottles packed in 20 cartons,…
NEW DELHI: India has screened 10,974 international travellers arriving from Ebola-affected countries since May 23 after the World Health Organization declared the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), with no case detected in the country so far, the Centre informed Parliament on Friday.The government said surveillance and preparedness were intensified…
Kolkata: Narkeldanga Police on Friday has arrested two men, one of them a key accused from Bantra in Howrah, for stealing a bag containing Rs 20 lakh from a vehicle on Wednesday. Cops recovered more than Rs 1.1 lakh in cash from the accused.The arrests followed a complaint lodged by a city-based printing press owner,…
Bhiwandi: A Good Samaritan who offered shelter to relatives, three daily-wagers from one family counting down the minutes to the end of the day’s work, and a wife struggling with survivor’s guilt. The building crash plunged many families into insurmountable grief.Shamim Ansari (32) did not even live in the building and had rushed to offer…
