MUMBAI: Bombay high court expressed displeasure after police said they did not take action against a man who harassed his former girlfriend and posted obscene pictures and videos of her on social media because they are not “serious or grave” offences.“It is a paradox to the general claim made by the state administration that the…
MUMBAI: Bombay high court expressed displeasure after police said they did not take action against a man who harassed his former girlfriend and posted obscene pictures and videos of her on social media because they are not “serious or grave” offences.“It is a paradox to the general claim made by the state administration that the…
NAGPUR: A judge drove to hospital a lawyer who suffered a suspected cardiac arrest Saturday in the district court, but the advocate could not be saved. Talat Iqbal Qureshi (65) was waiting for his case to be heard when he suddenly collapsed in the courtroom. Judge S B Pawar rushed down from his judicial dais…
NEW DELHI: In the biggest such exercise since lateral entry began in 2019, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has invited applications for 45 mid-level posts of director, joint secretary and deputy secretary in various ministries and departments as govt seeks more specialists. So far, 63 appointments have been made through lateral entry at these levels…
A US court has ruled that Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana can be extradited to India, where is wanted for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks carried out by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists.“The (India US Extradition) Treaty permits Rana’s extradition,” the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said on Thursday.Ruling on…
BHAGALPUR: A part of a bridge over the Ganga in Bihar under construction for over 10 years gave way Saturday, taking the dubious tally of the state’s bridge collapses since June this year to 18.No one was harmed when the iron superstructure of the four-lane Sultanganj (Bhagalpur)-Aguani Ghat (Khagaria) fell into the overflowing river. But…
THANJAVUR: A 20-year-old student who failed twice in his attempt to clear NEET took his own life in Thanjavur on Friday after his parents insisted that he join engineering without ‘wasting time’ on a third attempt at the all-India test to pursue MBBS. S Dhanush was found hanging from the roof of his room on…
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by a judge removed from service for ‘unsuitability’. Besides the matter of her unsuitability for service, which was the grounds for her termination, the judge was also suspected of having forged the resignation letters of two other judges. However, the HC order did not…
CHANDIGARH: In a major blow to Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), four of its MLAs have quit the party within 24 hours.JJP, led by former Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala‘s father Ajay Chautala, was ousted from power in March after its former ally BJP severed ties.On Friday – the day Election Commission announced polls to…
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far-east region, according to a report by the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake was reported in the early hours of Sunday morningThe earthquake’s epicenter was located approximately 90 kilometers east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, at a depth of nearly 50…
