New Delhi: A court has convicted a man of attempting to rape a differently abled woman, relying on the testimony of her mother and a psychiatric assessment that said the survivor had a social age of “one year and two months” and suffered from “profound social intellectual impairment”.Social age is a measure of a person’s…
Bharathiraja with Revathy Chennai: “Bring anyone from the street, and I can make her a heroine,” Bharathiraja is known to have said. It may have sounded like arrogance. Not to those who knew him.When Tamil cinema was obsessed with glamour and established faces in the late 1970s, Bharathiraja scoured the land for ‘ordinary women’, whom…
Patna: The Patna high court ruled that district-level special excise courts, constituted to hear cases under Bihar’s liquor prohibition law, have the jurisdiction to decide release applications pertaining to non-alcoholic and non-contraband goods or consignments seized along with vehicles, allegedly carrying liquor bottles.The provisions of liquor prohibition laws in Bihar permit the special excise courts…
Daltonganj: An elderly Mahadalit man was found murdered in an agricultural field located near his house at Karar village in Palamu district on Wednesday, police said.The officer in-charge of the Panki police station, Deepak Kumar Singh, said, “The body of the deceased, identified as Dhanraj Bhuiyan of Nadgarh hamlet, was spotted by the village chowkidar,…
নয়াদিল্লি: পৃথিবীর আকাশে ফের অভূতপূর্ব দৃশ্য। আর কিছু দিন পর আবারও পূর্ণগ্রাস সূর্যগ্রহণ হতে চলেছে। আগামী ১২ অগাস্ট, ফের বেশ কিছু ক্ষণের জন্য আড়ালে চলে যাবে সৌরজগতের অভিভাবক। দু’বছর পর ফের এমন দৃশ্যের সাক্ষী হবেন পৃথিবীবাসী।(Total Solar Eclipse) আমেরিকার মহাকাশ গবেষণা সংস্থা NASA জানিয়েছে, আগামী ১২ অগাস্ট ফের সূর্য এবং পৃথিবীর মাঝখানে চলে আসবে চাঁদ।…
उत्तर प्रदेश के झांसी से मारपीट का एक सनसनीखेज मामला सामने आया है. यहां कुत्ते के काटने की शिकायत करने पर एक युवक को कथित तौर पर पड़ोसियों के गुस्से का शिकार होना पड़ा. आरोप है कि पड़ोसियों ने युवक को सड़क पर गिराकर बेरहमी से पीटा और बाद में उसे घसीटते हुए गली में…
Ranchi: The Jharkhand govt is planning to increase 258 medical seats at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) in its undergraduate (UG), post-graduate (PG) and super-speciality courses to strengthen the state’s healthcare infrastructure and medical education.Health department’s additional chief secretary (ACS) Ajoy Kumar Singh in a letter to Rims director sent on Tuesday, asked…
India’s women shone at the Australian Open Super 500 badminton tournament on Wednesday, with PV Sindhu leading the charge and teenager Tanvi Sharma registering a notable win to reach the second round.Sindhu, Tanvi Sharma, Malvika Bansod, Isharani Baruah and Tanya Hemanth all advanced to the women’s singles round of 16. However, it was a disappointing…
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for becoming the longest serving elected Prime Minister of India. In a Truth Social post, Trump said that PM Modi is “strong, healthy and wise man” and will have many years of “greatness and success” ahead of him. “Congratulations to my friend,…
Kolkata: Rooting out corrupt practices from the state sports arena and bringing glory to Bengal were his main tasks now, said Indranil Khan, after becoming the minister of state (independent charge) for sports and youth affairs and consumer affairs departments on Wednesday. He said nepotism and syndicates at Maidan clubs had to end.Pointing out how…
