MUMBAI: MVA on Friday called off its statewide bandh on Saturday over the Badlapur school sexual abuse case after Bombay HC, pointing at the “huge loss” to the economy and disruption of essential services like health that would occur, restrained all parties concerned from proceeding with the general strike.MVA constituents Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (SP)…
NEW DELHI: A special court in Kolkata on Friday allowed a polygraph test to be conducted on Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said.The court has already given its nod to conduct the lie-detection test on Sandip…
NEW DELHI: A special court in Kolkata on Friday allowed a polygraph test to be conducted on Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said.The court has already given its nod to conduct the lie-detection test on Sandip…
KOLKATA: Calcutta high court asked CBI on Friday to take over the probe into corruption charges against RG Kar Medical College‘s ex-principal Sandip Ghosh from an SIT constituted by the Bengal govt, saying it makes sense to have one agency look into all allegations against him.Allegations of financial and administrative impropriety have been piling up…
LUCKNOW: UP‘s police constable recruitment exam, billed the largest ever job test in the state’s history with 48 lakh aspirants vying for 60,244 posts, kicked off Friday without any big troubles. This is a re-exam following the cancellation of the previous test in Feb 2024 after a leak. Four more rounds of the test are…
NEW DELHI: Coming to the rescue of students stranded due to a dispute over CUET admissions between Delhi University and St Stephen’s College, Delhi High Court on Friday granted provisional admission to six candidates in the college.The court noted that there was no fault of the six students who had successfully cleared the Common University…
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…
