Kolkata: Police have arrested several Trinamool functionaries in the past 24 hours on charges ranging from extortion and post-poll violence to running illicit rackets.Tension flared in Canning after TMC youth president Aritra Bose was arrested for allegedly shooting a BJP worker on counting day. Angry women armed with brooms and shoes surrounded the police station…
Navi Mumbai: A 66-year-old woman residing in the slum colony along KKR road in Turbhe store area was murdered by strangulation and her body stuffed in a gunny sack was found dumped below the streetlight about 300 metres away from her house on Tuesday early morning. Turbhe police have registered an FIR of murder against…
Delhi-NCR has entered Stage 1 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) as the air quality index (AQI) reached 208, falling into the ‘poor’ category NEW DELHI: The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) on Tuesday invoked Stage 1 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) across Delhi-NCR after the city’s air quality slipped into…
CHENNAI: The textile industry has raised concerns over a sharp increase in cotton prices in the past two months and tightening domestic supply, along with heightened raw material and logistics costs, could adversely impact the industry, hard-hit by US tariffs last year.Neeraj Jain, managing director of Vardhman Textiles, raised concerns about domestic supply during the…
Image used for representation Patna: Medicine stores across state, including Patna, will remain shut for 24 hours on May 20 as chemists will join a nationwide strike against online pharmacies and their regulatory framework.The protest has been called by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) and is being supported in Bihar by…
Ranchi: A Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) officer, Kamal Kishore Mahto (30) was found hanging from a tree on a hillock in the Talatand area under Patratu police station limits of Ramgarh district on Tuesday morning.Police said that prima facie Mahto died by suicide, adding that further investigation was going on. The body was…
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NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday said that his “fight against BJP” will continue after Kolkata civic authorities initiated a probe into the “legality” of properties owned by him.During a press conference, Abhishek launched a broadside against West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and said that he will not bow down even…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress’s Falta candidate, Jahangir Khan, declared on Tuesday that he would not contest the May 21 repoll.Khan made the announcement during a press conference at his home in Falta’s Kamardanga Khan Para, where he praised CM Suvendu Adhikari for his proposed special package for Falta.“I want Falta to remain peaceful and prosperous. My…
Representative AI-generated image MUMBAI: A roadside observation study conducted in Maharashtra from Dec 2022 to Feb 2025 shows that correct helmet usage among motorcyclists was as low as 19 percent and among pillion riders it was almost non-existent (4 percent). Speeding was most frequently observed among ride-share vehicles (23 percent) as compared to govt and…
