This West Bengal election has been remarkable for the unusual silence of a large section of the electorate, except for a voluble clamour for change from many among the urban, white-collar voters, which has lent it a touch of intrigue and made the in-between time from polling day to result day a battle of nerves…
Navi Mumbai: Panvel city police have found a woman’s body dumped on an isolated road near Bambaipada village on the Uran-Panvel road in Panvel taluka on Sunday morning. Prima facie, the Panvel city police have registered a murder case as the woman was strangled using a cloth.Nitin Thakare, senior inspector of Panvel city police station…
New Delhi: When a fire breaks out in a residential complex, your chance of survival is dictated by a narrow window of time during which prompt, calculated action outweighs panic. Fire safety experts say one’s ability to act with clarity and urgency while maintaining a calm and focused mindset is the most critical factor in…
Chennai: DMK conducted statewide training sessions on Sunday for its counting agents, focusing on procedures to be followed inside counting centres. With 62 counting centres set up across Tamil Nadu, party leadership had earlier directed senior functionaries to brief agents thoroughly. Following this, ministers and district-level leaders held meetings on Sunday to ensure uniform adherence…
Patna: BJP’s Buxar MLA and former IPS officer of the Assam and Meghalaya cadre, Anand Mishra, on Sunday said Bihar police are acting within the law in eliminating criminals through encounters, asserting they have no identity beyond crime.“The criminals eliminated in recent times carry several charges of murder and organised crime. When police challenged them,…
Dhanbad: A day after four workers were buried alive in coal slurry at a washery operated by Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) in Munidih area, family members of the deceased and locals demonstrated on Sunday, demanding adequate compensation and employment for the next of kin of the victims.The deceased workers have been identified as Deepak…
Daltonganj: A deficit of 48 question booklets in the NEET UG examination at the Yodh Singh Namdhari Mahila college in Daltonganj delayed the exam by more than four hours on Sunday. According to a PRD official, the exam had 2 pm to 5 pm duration, but it finally started at 6.55 pm. “It will be…
NEW DELHI: Wrestler Vinesh Phogat on Sunday disclosed that she is one of the six female wrestlers who had accused former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment.The announcement comes just days before her return at a ranking tournament in Brij Bhushan’s stronghold Gonda, marking her first appearance in nearly…
Kolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee threw a sweeping challenge to BJP bigwigs to contest the Falta assembly segment repoll after the Election Commission countermanded the April 29 Falta polls and ordered a repoll on May 21 across all 285 booths in the constituency.Banerjee’s defiant response came after BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya…
Mumbai: The Customs department on May 1 and 2, has seized electronic items, cosmetics, cigarettes and crude gold cumulatively worth more than Rs 1.8 crore from passengers arriving at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport from Dubai, resulting in the arrest of one person, an official said on Sunday. “Two separate cases were registered against two…
