Patna: A wanted criminal on the police’s top-10 list, carrying a reward of Rs50,000, was arrested after a brief encounter with police in the Roh police station area of Nawada district on Sunday morning. The accused, identified as Tinku Yadav, son of Nageshwar Yadav and a resident of Nawadih village under the Lachhuar police station…
NEW DELHI: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, has handed over the additional charge of Director to Dr Nikhil Tandon, head of the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Dean (Academics), following the exit of Dr M Srinivas.Dr Srinivas has been appointed as a full-time member of NITI Aayog, prompting the…
JAGATDAL: West Bengal Police on Monday arrested four people in connection with violent clashes between Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters outside Jagatdal Police Station on Sunday night.The accused have been identified as Koushik Das, Sikander Prasad, Gopal Routh and Shyamdev Shaw. Police said efforts are underway to trace the remaining suspects,…
MSEDCL, which supplies power to nearly 3 crore consumers, including agricultural and industrial users, is facing severe strain amid rising temperatures and hot, humid weather. MUMBAI: Maharashtra’s power network is under mounting pressure as peak electricity demand in MSEDCL supply areas surged to a record 27,230 MW, sharply increasing the load on the state’s distribution…
NEW DELHI: With seven AAP MPs in the Rajya Sabha crossing over to the BJP, the Congress on Monday said the Arvind Kejriwal-led party’s mask had come off, alleging that it is a party of billionaires that allotted Rajya Sabha seats on the basis of money.Senior Congress leader Ajay Maken alleged that the Aam Aadmi…
James Vasanthan’s parked car vandalised in Chennai’s Kottivakkam CHENNAI: Music composer James Vasanthan’s car was allegedly vandalised by unidentified persons in Chennai, prompting a police investigation, officials said.The incident is reported to have taken place in the Kottivakkam area on April 26, when the composer had stepped out for dinner at a restaurant. On returning…
Biharsharif: A 65-year-old woman, Rinku Devi, was assaulted by her relatives after being accused of practising witchcraft at Janakpur village under the Ben police station area in Nalanda district on Sunday.According to her husband Sanju Prasad, the allegation followed the death of a four-month-old child in the family, for which she was blamed due to…
NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress on Monday alleged that “goons” of the Bharatiya Janata Party attacked Arambag MP Mitali Bag’s car on the last day of campaigning ahead of the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls.In a post on X, the TMC said that Bag was “brutally and dastardly attacked by BJP lumpens…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: Referring to the power outage while votes were being counted in Nandigram during the 2021 assembly polls, CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday put her workers on alert, asking why complaints of power-cuts were pouring in from EVM strongrooms after the first phase of the assembly elections.“Look at EC! It…
MUMBAI: A 33-year-old automobile dealer has been arrested by Goregaon Police after he poured petrol on the road and set it on fire to create a social media reel for a birthday.Police have booked him under the provisions of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita. The incident was brought to the notice of the police through a tweet…
