LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh police arrested Wednesday two men after charging them under the state’s anti-conversion law for allegedly offering a villager in Ambedkar Nagar and his friends Rs 10,000 each and promising to build them houses if they converted to Christianity.Police said the accused G Raju and Ram Avadh Nishad were taken into custody following…
PATNA: A six-year-old pre-primary student of a Bihar school carried his father’s licensed pistol to class Wednesday and ended up “mistakenly” pulling the trigger on a 10-year-old boy inside a classroom. The bullet struck the Class III student’s left palm.Police said the owner of the gun, a guard at the same school in Supaul district’s…
NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar is likely to travel to the Maldives next week for what will be the first high-level bilateral visit by the Indian side to the important Indian Ocean neighbour since the new president, Mohamed Muizzu, assumed office late last year.Jaishankar will hold talks with his counterpart Moosa Zameer on ongoing…
NEW DELHI: As of June 30, nearly 150 people have died due to seasonal influenza A (H1N1), also known as swine flu, across India, according to data from the National Centre for Disease Control. Punjab reported 41 deaths, followed by Gujarat (27), Haryana (26) and Maharashtra (16). Delhi did not report any deaths this year,…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday strongly defended the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and said it had “unimpeachable credentials” and he would not permit any member to single out an organisation which was “doing national service”.Dhankhar’s comments came after SP member Ramji Lal Suman, while talking about National Testing Agency chairperson, said…
MUMBAI: ED conducted searches at various locations in Mumbai, Karjat, Baramati, and Pune in connection with a bank loan fraud case involving Shree Shiv Parvati Sakhar Karkhana Ltd and seized Rs 19.5 lakh, reports VijayV Singh. The locations included the premises of the company, Hitech Engineering Corporation India Pvt Ltd, and the firm’s directors Nandkumar…
KOLKATA: A special PMLA court has observed that no “prima facie” case can be made out against Nalini Chidambaram for money laundering in the Saradha probe.Judge Prashanta Mukhopadhyay said in the order on Tuesday that since no case was made out “for the offence under Section 3 punishable under Section 4 of the PMLA Act,…
AHMEDABAD: The girl from Gujarat, who had pulled off a remarkable 705 out of 720 in National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) but later failed her Class XII (science) board exam, has now failed supplementary exams, too, leaving her ineligible for college.Her result had caused an uproar due to the implausibility of a NEET topper failing board…
NEW DELHI: India’s Nishant Dev on Wednesday advanced to the quarterfinals in the boxing 71kg men’s competition, defeating Jose Gabriel Rodriguez Tenorio of Ecuador at the Paris Olympics. Dev edged Rodriguez 3-2 via a split decision.Starting aggressively, Dev landed straight and precise punches to comfortably secure the first round. However, his Ecuadorian opponent saved his…
LONDON: Fifty-three police officers and three police dogs were injured during violent riots which erupted in Southport on Tuesday night just yards from where a peaceful vigil had taken place earlier in the evening for the 13 people, mostly children, stabbed in a dance class.The rioting began at 7.45 pm outside a local mosque when…
