New Delhi: Nearly four decades after a man allegedly murdered his wife in east Delhi, police have arrested the accused, officials said on Thursday.The case dates back to Oct 19, 1986, when the accused, identified as Chandra Shekhar Prasad, now 84, allegedly killed his wife at their Shakarpur residence by crushing her head with bricks,…
Photo by J jackson CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has recorded 84.60% of polling till 6pm on Thursday. It accounts for a total of 4.84 crore out of the total electorate of 5.73 crore in 234 constituencies.Karur district has recorded the highest percentage of polling, with 91.97%, while Salem witnessed a total voting percentage of 90.23%. Watch…
Patna: The opposition is rattled by the pace of development under a “triple-engine” govt in Bihar, BJP spokesperson Prem Ranjan Patel said on Thursday.He said earlier it was a double-engine govt, but now the synergy of CM Samrat Choudhary’s young and energetic leadership, former CM Nitish Kumar’s administrative experience, and the Centre’s full cooperation under…
Ranchi: The Dhanbad district administration has mooted a short term and long-term proposal before the Jharkhand high court on Thursday for eradicating parking woes of advocates in the Dhanbad civil court.The Dhanbad district administration informed the division bench of Chief Justice M S Sonak and Justice Rajesh Shankar that a meeting was held in the…
Gumla: Police on Thursday announced Rs 2 lakh as reward for information on Sanjita Kumari of Khora Jamtoli village, who was around 13 years old when she had gone missing on September 2018.The Jharkhand high court on April 20 set a two-week deadline for the state govt to trace the minor girl. A day after…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh has invited the German industry to co-produce with India, particularly in the field of niche technologies, as he underscored the need to forge partnerships based on reliability and shared interests, terming them indispensable in current shifts in geopolitical alignments, disruptions in supply chains and rapid technological transformations.While addressing German…
Mothabari (Malda): “Apnara naam tulte esechen? Vote dite parbo? (Have you come to enlist our names? Can we cast our votes?)” — these were the cries that greeted TOI as hundreds of deleted voters mobbed this correspondent at Mothabari on polling day.Only in the first week of this month, this nondescript village made headlines after…
Mumbai: A 36-year-old homemaker from a Charkop housing society has been arrested after she tipped off an acquaintance and got him to loot her neighbour’s house. Police said the accused made a duplicate key to the neighbour’s house and stole gold jewellery worth Rs 34 lakh.On April 13, a 40-year-old woman approached the Charkop police…
New Delhi: The city experienced its hottest day of the year on Thursday. The Ridge logged 43 degrees Celsius, which was the highest maximum temperature this season. The Met department has predicted heatwaves on Friday and Saturday as the temperature could rise more.India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a heatwave alert across north-west India for…
Chennai: A space industry body has urged the government to provide policy support and financial incentives to nurture the nascent orbital servicing ecosystem in the country. A report by the Indian Space Association (ISpA) and OrbitAID Aerospace, a startup working on extending satellite life, has called for a production-linked incentive programme, procurement commitments from strategic…
