Kolkata/Midnapore: Kalighat and Salboni cops on Saturday broke open locks to enter Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee‘s Kalighat Road home in search of his personal assistant, Sumit Roy, an accused in a West Midnapore land-deal related corruption case.Trinamool chief and former CM Mamata Banerjee rushed to her nephew’s home around 6.30 am after receiving news of…
Thane: A funeral procession in Diva was allegedly obstructed briefly after a private road that is incidentally the sole motorable access to the dense residential colony in the Bedekar Nagar area was barricaded by some miscreants, who locals said had been blocking the road to illegally collect a toll for use of the thoroughfare.A viral…
New Delhi: A teacher at a Delhi University college has been barred from entering the campus pending an inquiry into allegations that he secretly clicked photographs of a woman student during an examination earlier this week.The college authorities have also confiscated his mobile phone and he has been removed from examination duty. Further action, including…
Chennai: A 23-year-old man was arrested on charges of attempting to break into an ATM in Koyambedu. Although no money was taken, officers registered a case and later detained one of the two suspects. Search is on for the other.The probe began after Vignesh, 32, the branch manager of a Punjab National Bank office on…
Patna: Chief secretary Pratyaya Amrit on Saturday reviewed the progress of the Kacchi Dargah-Bidupur six-lane Ganga bridge project and asked engineers to ensure there is no laxity in the final phase of construction. He asked senior officials to monitor the work on a daily basis.The review comes after chief minister Samrat Choudhary directed the department…
Hazaribag: An 85-year-old woman was found murdered in her house at Pankri Barwadih village in Hazaribag district on Saturday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Magni Mosomat, wife of late Chaudhary Saw.Police said she was living alone as her two sons stayed separately at different places. Family members said unidentified criminals entered her…
Jamshedpur: Two women died after being bitten by venomous snakes in Dumaria block of East Singhbhum district on Friday, officials said on Saturday.At Bahadurpur village on Friday, 18-year-old Sauravi Sardar was sleeping on the floor of her house when a venomous snake bit her on the neck and the finger of her left hand. Her…
NEW DELHI: A bowling-themed birthday cake that had delighted three-year-old Reyaansh from Thane during a family celebration May 31 turned into a nightmare when the toddler unknowingly swallowed two metal wires hidden inside decorative cake toppers. The following day, which was his actual birthday, the family found itself in hospital instead of celebrating after scans…
Kolkata: Trinamool’s rebel MP camp swelled to 20 on Saturday after veteran Lok Sabha MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay took a morning flight to Delhi and first met Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav at his residence and then Union home minister Amit Shah later in the day.Sudip’s late flip indicates his wife and Chowringhee MLA, Nayna Bandopadhyay,…
The woman took the extreme step apparently over domestic issues George MendoncaNavi Mumbai: In a shocking and heart-wrenching incident, a 29-year-old tribal woman from Kharavali tribal hamlet in Mangaon taluka, Raigad, allegedly fed poison-laced cold drink to her four minor children before she herself consumed the poison on Saturday. While the woman and her two…
