DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand govt has submitted an application to recall and modify an order to eliminate a segment based on the suggested clauses of the Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code (UCC) from an HC directive. This directive concerned the protection of an interfaith couple in a live-in relationship in Dehradun. A bench led by Justice Manoj Kumar…
KOLKATA: Bengal Police on Saturday registered an FIR against steel firm CEO Dinesh Saraogi for alleged sexual assault on a 28-year-old woman on a July 16 Kolkata-Abu Dhabi flight. Separately, Vulcan Green Steel, the Jindal Group firm that Saraogi heads, placed him on “administrative leave and appointed an independent third-party” for an internal probe.Saraogi has…
NEW DELHI: The ‘factories’ appear to have delivered yet again. NEET-UG 2024 results of candidates at centres like Tagore PG College, Sikar, Rajasthan; Modern School, Kota, Rajasthan; Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Kottayam, Kerala; Unit-1 School of Engineering, Rajkot, Gujarat; and Model School, Rohtak reinforce the influence of so-called ‘coaching factories’. Amid allegations of systematic lapses by those…
LUCKNOW: Pieces of cloth were used with at least 72 elastic clips to secure the track between Motiganj and Jhilahi railway stations, 25km from Gonda in Uttar Pradesh, according to a six-member team of railway officials that conducted a preliminary probe into the July 18 derailment of Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express, resulting in the deaths of four…
Former White House physician Ronny Jackson, now a conservative congressman from Texas, provided a detailed account of the injury sustained by former US President Donald Trump during an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania last week. According to Jackson’s memo, the bullet passed close to Trump’s head, striking the top of his right ear…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate Saturday arrested Congress’s Sonipat MLA Surendra Pawar in a money-laundering case related to illegal mining in Yamuna Nagar. The syndicate, of which Pawar is accused of being a member, has allegedly generated ‘proceeds of crime‘ of Rs 500 crore, according to ED sources.The MLA was produced before a special PMLA…
RAIPUR: A Maoist was killed in a gunfight with security forces in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar Saturday. This takes Maoist death toll in Chhattisgarh this year to 141, eight this month.Police said an encounter took place in Tumar Gatta and Singavaram villages in Jagargunda when a team of District Reserve Guard was out on…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress Saturday binned a “in-house judicial enquiry report” released by Raj Bhavan and termed the exoneration of Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose from molestation charges levelled by an ex-Raj Bhavan staff as “garbage”.Raj Bhavan released the report on X, incidentally a day after SC agreed to hear a plea by the survivor,…
JAIPUR: Rajasthan govt has called for a CBI inquiry into production of fake Aadhaar cards, following alarming allegations that animal irises and toe prints were being used in place of human biometrics in Sanchore and other districts bordering Pakistan.State parliamentary affairs minister Jogaram Patel said Saturday that govt will launch an statewide campaign, forming search…
AHMEDABAD: A student from Gujarat aced the NEET-UG with an impressive 705 out of 720. But here’s a puzzling twist: she flunked her Class 12 science boards, held by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB).The NEET-UG results were declared centre- and city-wise on Saturday. Soon, the student’s NEET and HSC science results…
