KOLKATA: CBI’s remand note to a trial court Friday seeking judicial custody of police volunteer Sanjay Roy, the lone suspect to be arrested in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case, makes no mention of “gang rape” or the possible involvement of more than one person in the Aug 9 crime.The parents of the victim, a…
At least 27 people – 20 of them pilgrims from north Maharashtra‘s Jalgaon district, including a six-year-old girl – were killed when an Indian tourist bus that began its journey from UP veered off the highway and fell 150 metres into the fast-flowing Marsyangdi river near Tanahu district in Nepal, around 130km from UP’s Maharajganj…
NEW DELHI/ KYIV: PM Narendra Modi sought to take the sting out of the Western outrage over his visit to Russia last month as he expressed solidarity with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during their meeting in Kyiv, while also urging him to quickly sit with Russian president Putin and find a way out of the…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate has started probing the al-Qaida link in Jharkhand’s land scam case in which CM Hemant Soren was arrested earlier and is one of the accused in its money laundering case. ED has summoned Babloo Khan, who runs a hospital in Ranchi, on Monday after it was found that an al-Qaida cell…
NEW DELHI/ NOIDA/ GURGAON: People in the city and neighbouring Gurgaon and Noida faced a lot of inconveniences in travelling on Friday due to the two-day autorickshaw-taxi strike called by 14 drivers’ unions. They are demanding a ban on app-based cab services and an increase in the regulated fares.The auto and taxi unions contend that…
NEW DELHI: Tragedy struck on Friday when a 15-year-old boy lost his life on a waterlogged road in central Delhi’s Chanakyapuri. The incident occurred following heavy rain in various parts of the city. The exact reason behind the death is unclear, as police said the boy had drowned while civic officials claimed that he was…
NEW DELHI: Space minister Jitendra Singh, who released a report on the socio-economic impacts on Indian space programmes and data on Chandrayaan-3 on National Space Day, said on Friday that India not only became the first to reach Mars in one go and first to land on the Moon’s south pole but “will also become…
Several people were killed and many others were injured after a knife attack at a festival in the western German city of Solingen. The exact number of casualties remains unconfirmed, but emergency workers are reportedly fighting to save the lives of nine individuals, according to statements made by festival organizer Philipp Müller, local Solinger Tageblatt…
NEW DELHI: Your vehicle, despite passing PUC tests, is likely emitting more pollutants than the emission standard while running on the road, reveals a new study.Vehicles, including those under the latest BS VI norms, emit much more in real-world operations as compared to type-approval (laboratory) limits, says a new study by International Council on Clean…
NEW DELHI: In a first, the Supreme Court on Friday gave a retrospective application to Section 479 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) that mandates the release of undertrial first-time offenders lodged in prisons if they have served one-third of the maximum punishment prescribed for the offence allegedly committed by them. Though BNSS, along with…
