Navi Mumbai: A 28-year-old fisherman allegedly killed his three-year-old stepson in Uran after losing his temper when the child repeatedly told him he was his real father, and that he wanted to go to his real father. The accused, Jitendra Pradeep Bhise, initially claimed the boy had suffered fatal head injuries after falling from a…
The agency laid a trap on Tuesday and allegedly caught Sandeep accepting the Rs 10 lakh bribe through his wife. (AI-generated Image) NEW DELHI: The CBI has arrested a deputy controller of accounts posted as an internal financial advisor (IFA) in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry for allegedly accepting an Rs 10 lakh bribe through…
Govt school in soup as video of students assaulting classmate goes viral Chennai: The Pallipattu Govt Higher Secondary School in Tirutanni has landed in the soup after a video of a group of students physically and verbally assaulting a fellow student surfaced on social media.The attackers, who were all in school uniforms, were seen pinning…
Buxar: A 28-year-old farmer died of electrocution while irrigating his paddy field at Kasiya village under Dumraon police station area in Buxar district on Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Diwakar Singh alias Laddu, son of the late Markandey Singh.According to police, Diwakar had gone to his field on the eastern outskirts of the village to…
Jamshedpur: Heads of four civic bodies in Jamshedpur and Adityapur have sought a probe into alleged irregularities in sanitation services being provided by a solid waste management company.The mayors of Adityapur Municipal Corporation and Mango Municipal Corporation, and the chairpersons of Jugsalai and Kapali municipal councils on Tuesday jointly wrote to State Urban Development Agency…
Ranchi: Jharkhand recorded 3,674 drowning deaths from 2020 to 2024, according to the Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India (ADSI) data published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The toll has risen over the five years.Jharkhand chapter of the National Health Mission (NHM), in collaboration with Child In Need Institute (CINI), organised the state’s…
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has asked the party’s chief ministers to work with education experts and prepare a roadmap for overhauling the education and examination system. NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday mapped out its political strategy on a range of issues, including the Vande Mataram centenary celebrations, its ‘Chhatron ki Goonj’ campaign against paper…
Kolkata: In an unusual development, Calcutta High Court judge Suvra Ghosh on Wednesday recused herself from delivering the verdict on the bail plea of jailed former Bengal minister Sujit Bose after alleging that Bose’s lawyer and her private secretary had entered her chamber and sought access to case-related records.Justice Ghosh said she had already reported…
The court convicted the accused under the relevant sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act Mumbai: A special court under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on Tuesday convicted a 32-year-old man and sentenced him to six months’ rigorous imprisonment for hurling casteist abuses at an advocate and making derogatory…
New Delhi: Water quality of Kitchener Lake, located behind Dhaula Kuan metro station, met the Central Pollution Control Board’s criteria, according to a compliance report submitted by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to National Green Tribunal. DPCC found that levels of pH, dissolved oxygen and free ammonia were within the prescribed standards.NGT had directed…
