New Delhi: A court has convicted a man of attempting to rape a differently abled woman, relying on the testimony of her mother and a psychiatric assessment that said the survivor had a social age of “one year and two months” and suffered from “profound social intellectual impairment”.Social age is a measure of a person’s…
Bharathiraja with Revathy Chennai: “Bring anyone from the street, and I can make her a heroine,” Bharathiraja is known to have said. It may have sounded like arrogance. Not to those who knew him.When Tamil cinema was obsessed with glamour and established faces in the late 1970s, Bharathiraja scoured the land for ‘ordinary women’, whom…
Patna: The Patna high court ruled that district-level special excise courts, constituted to hear cases under Bihar’s liquor prohibition law, have the jurisdiction to decide release applications pertaining to non-alcoholic and non-contraband goods or consignments seized along with vehicles, allegedly carrying liquor bottles.The provisions of liquor prohibition laws in Bihar permit the special excise courts…
Daltonganj: An elderly Mahadalit man was found murdered in an agricultural field located near his house at Karar village in Palamu district on Wednesday, police said.The officer in-charge of the Panki police station, Deepak Kumar Singh, said, “The body of the deceased, identified as Dhanraj Bhuiyan of Nadgarh hamlet, was spotted by the village chowkidar,…
Ranchi: The Jharkhand govt is planning to increase 258 medical seats at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) in its undergraduate (UG), post-graduate (PG) and super-speciality courses to strengthen the state’s healthcare infrastructure and medical education.Health department’s additional chief secretary (ACS) Ajoy Kumar Singh in a letter to Rims director sent on Tuesday, asked…
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for becoming the longest serving elected Prime Minister of India. In a Truth Social post, Trump said that PM Modi is “strong, healthy and wise man” and will have many years of “greatness and success” ahead of him. “Congratulations to my friend,…
Kolkata: Rooting out corrupt practices from the state sports arena and bringing glory to Bengal were his main tasks now, said Indranil Khan, after becoming the minister of state (independent charge) for sports and youth affairs and consumer affairs departments on Wednesday. He said nepotism and syndicates at Maidan clubs had to end.Pointing out how…
The Sahar Police station registered an FIR against social media influencer Anwar Khan Mumbai: Maharashtra Cyber has registered an FIR against a fake website allegedly impersonating the popular media platform “Viral Bhayani” and offering fraudulent celebrity media promotion and social media feature services to unsuspecting users. According to officials, the offence has been registered at…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has filed a chargesheet in connection with the security breach at the Delhi Assembly that was reported on April 6.The accused, identified as Sarabjit Singh (37), a resident of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested in the case. According to the chargesheet, the incident took place around 2.10 pm when a…
PIL against promotion of IAS officers rejected Chennai: Madras high court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest writ petition as not maintainable challenging the promotion of seven Tamil Nadu IAS officers, including T Udhayachandran, of 1995 batch, to the grade of chief secretary. The petition alleged that the state failed to obtain prior approval of…
