Kolkata: With the Supreme Court restraining states from taking coercive action against NEET protesters, a city court on Tuesday reversed within three hours its jail custody order for all 16 persons arrested for the ruckus at Esplanade during last Friday’s protest march in Kolkata and granted them bail. The contrasting orders by the same court…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Cyber Cell found that 429 handles or posts were created on Instagram, X, Facebook and YouTube to spread fake and derogatory information, including 140 AI-generated content, during the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest march.The cyber cell team that deleted the posts or handles found that Instagram was used the most, with 312…
New Delhi: A day after TOI reported that traffic at Sarai Kale Khan is set to worsen as two major expressway corridors converge at the already-choked interchange, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has initiated the preparation of a detailed project report (DPR) to identify long-term engineering solutions to decongest the critical loop connecting the…
Chennai: A 70-year-old man was rescued by fire and rescue services after he accidentally fell into a 30-foot-deep public well near his house in Pallavaram on Tuesday.Joseph, of Pallavaram’s Purushothaman Street, lost his balance and fell into an unused well due to age-related instability. As the well was dry, his fall caused multiple injuries. Residents…
Patna: The Patna high court administration on Tuesday decided to establish three fast-track courts (FTCs) to ensure speedy trials in cases related to offences committed during public examinations.The FTCs will be set up in Patna, Lakhisarai and Purnia districts to exclusively hear cases involving paper leaks, impersonation, cheating and other unfair means in public examinations…
Daltonganj: Police on Tuesday arrested Ramesh Singh alias Mora Singh, 55, an accused in the daylight murder of Prabhunath Rajwar, 50, a Dalit man, under Pipra police station limits.Rajwar was allegedly attacked with a sharp-edged iron weapon, locally known as a baluwa, while playing cards under a banyan tree at Madhubana village around 1.30 pm…
Dhanbad: To encourage quality nutrition services, early childhood education and innovative practices at anganwadi centres, the district social welfare and social security department, under the district administration, are jointly going to organise the “Outstanding Anganwadi Centre Award Ceremony-2026.” The awards will be presented during the Independence Day celebrations on Aug 15 at Golf Ground in…
SG Mehta said the government will submit the final report, as soon as it is finalised, to the SC in a sealed cover NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted the request of the father of the pilot, who died in the Ahmedabad air crash last June, for not making public the final inquiry report,…
Kolkata: Neither one’s voter card nor Aadhaar nor bank account is conclusive proof of Indian citizenship, the Calcutta High Court has said, refusing to interfere in the state’s proceedings regarding a “Murshidabad man” held in a detention centre for being a “Bangladeshi” because of obvious discrepancies.Nasir and his cousin, Suman Molla, were given repeated chances…
Mumbai: The BMC proposal to lease 15 acres of reclaimed land at the Mulund dumping ground to the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) for five years to set up a casting yard, precast element manufacturing facility and ready-mix concrete (RMC) plant ran into stiff opposition from Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress members during the civic improvements…
