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…
KOLKATA: The Bengal govt removed former Rajya Sabha MP Shantanu Sen from the post of adviser to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Saturday, two days after he was removed as TMC spokesperson.It is believed that Sen’s stance on the rape-murder at R G Kar hospital has cost him his post in KMC. Just before the…
KOLKATA: The vandalisation of RG Kar hospital on the night of August 14-15 was “premeditated“, Kolkata police said Saturday after arresting five more people, taking the number to 30.Police sources said the attackers had travelled in groups – numbering between five and 10 -not only from neighbourhood pockets like Belgachia and Dum Dum but also…
NEW DELHI: The West Bengal government has introduced a range of initiatives to enhance the safety of women in the workplace, especially in state-run hospitals where night shifts are required. Chief Advisor to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Alapan Bandyopadhyay, outlined these measures during a press conference, amidst ongoing protests by doctors across the state in…
NEW DELHI: An Air India air hostess was assaulted by an intruder in her London hotel room earlier this week. Luckily her cries for help reached colleagues in adjacent rooms and they quickly gathered after which the assaulter tried to run away but was eventually nabbed. The dazed young woman, who suffered bruises, was taken…
