Howrah: A 38-year-old man, Gopal Sarkar, accused of running a sex trafficking racket was found dead and wrapped in a saree near the Dhulagarh truck terminal in Howrah on Tuesday night. Police arrested Happy Singh, who allegedly confessed to killing Sarkar, claiming his sister was among several underage girls lured into prostitution through false job…
According to to the FIR, the 3 demanded Rs 1 crore from the developer and threatening to bring a cluster redevelopment project to halt if their demands were not met Kalyan: Kolsewadi police in Kalyan have filed an extortion case against a social activist, her husband and their associate for allegedly demanding Rs 1 crore…
New Delhi: A 16-year-old boy accused of murdering a man during a robbery in southwest Delhi’s Jaffarpur Kalan will be tried as an adult, following an order by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB). Police alleged that the juvenile, along with two associates, killed the man last year and later set his body on fire to…
Still from ‘Red Rose’, a remake of ‘Sigappu Rojakkal’ For most filmmakers, success in Tamil cinema is enough. For Bharathiraja, Bollywood represented a new frontier.In 1979, just two years after ‘16 Vayathinile’, Bharathiraja crossed the Vindhyas. ‘Solva Sawan’ (meaning ‘Sixteenth Spring’) was his Hindi romantic drama starring Amol Palekar and Sridevi. It marked 15-year-old Sridevi’s…
Patna: The Danapur division of East Central Railway (ECR) has operationalised a dedicated ‘war room’ at its control office to monitor and address passenger grievances received via the RailMadad platform round the clock. The new facility aims at improving response time and passenger services.Senior divisional commercial manager (DCM) Abhinav Siddarth said the 24×7 facility has…
NEW DELHI: Leaders from across the world, including US President Donald Trump, congratulated PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday after he became India’s longest continuously serving elected PM, with several describing the milestone as a reflection of the trust reposed in him by voters over three consecutive parliamentary elections.Among the first to post a message was…
TMC national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee has been named in an FIR alongside 41 party members for an alleged attack on a BJP worker nearly eight years ago.The complaint was lodged at Diamond Harbour police station on Tuesday by BJP leader Abhijit Das, who contested against Banerjee in the 2024 Lok…
BMC’s disaster management team alerted various control rooms, including police and Mantralaya, besides Azad Maidan police station about the threat emails Mumbai: Senior BMC officials on Wednesday morning received threat emails warning of explosions at the mayor’s office at 1.11pm, besides the Chief Minister’s Office, BSE building and RSS shakhas at specified timings.The emails, which…
New Delhi: A deputy manager of a cooperative bank has been arrested for allegedly facilitating the opening of a bank account that was later used by cyber fraudsters to route nearly Rs 67.9 crore of cheated funds, police have said.Pabitra Kumar Biswal, a resident of Mayur Vihar in east Delhi, was arrested following an investigation…
Chennai: Vietnamese EV maker VinFast has proposed a Rs 7,000-crore Phase II expansion at its Tuticorin manufacturing complex, widening its production portfolio beyond passenger cars to include electric scooters and buses. The expansion would significantly increase the scale of operations at the factory located in the southern Tamil Nadu port city and is expected to…
