DHAKA: Bangladesh‘s interim govt will do whatever it takes to get deposed PM Sheikh Hasina back home to face justice, foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain said Sunday in remarks that put the onus on India to decide “whether to hand her over or not”.“If our legal system wants, we will definitely try to bring…
Many parts of Telangana saw heavy rains HYDERABAD: A father-daughter duo, a mother-daughter duo, and a couple among nine people died in rain-related accidents over a 24-hour period until Sunday in Telangana battered by torrential downpours.Andhra Pradesh capital region, meanwhile, has been transformed into a virtual lake following an unprecedented 37 cm rainfall in a…
KOLKATA: The ‘Justice for RG Kar‘ campaign reached new heights, quite literally, as mountaineers from a north Kolkata trekkers’ association scaled 6,400-plus-metre Kang Yatze peak in Ladakh and unfurled a poster there demanding justice for the trainee doctor who was brutally raped and murdered at the medical hospital on Aug 9.The mountaineers also raised the…
Former Trinamool MP Kunal Ghosh has reached out to the RG Kar rape-murder victim’s father, pledging party corrective actions based on their feedback. The father emphasized speeding up the slow-paced CBI investigation. Bengal assembly will discuss a bill to make rapes punishable by death, likely in tribute to the victim. KOLKATA: Former Trinamool MP Kunal…
KOZHIKODE: Independent MLA with LDF, PV Anvar, has made shocking allegations against Kerala ADGP (law and order) Ajith Kumar, calling him a “notorious criminal” and alleging that the top cop – considered to be the most influential officer in the state police force – had got people murdered in connection with gold smuggling.The MLA from…
GHAZIABAD: A car crashed into pieces of logs kept by the road near Delhi Public School in Madhuban Bapudham early on Sunday and ploughed through a footpath, killing a Delhi Police constable seated in front of the vehicle and a daily wager sleeping on the pavement.A 19-year-old daughter of the man sleeping off the road…
NEW DELHI: Preethi Pal made history on Sunday, becoming the first Indian woman track and field athlete to win two medals at the Paralympics while Nishad Kumar secured his second successive silver in the men’s high jump T47 category at the Paris Games. Preethi, 23, bagged her second bronze in the 200m T35 category with…
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud on Sunday said district courts working with 30% vacancy in judicial officers had achieved 95% disposal rate and said to tackle the monstrous backlog of 4.5 crore cases, time had come to think of implementing All India Judicial Services (AIJS) for quick filling of vacancies for expeditious disposal…
DEHRADUN: Residents of Nandanagar town in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand‘s Garhwal region attacked shops belonging to members of the minority community on Sunday after allegations that a Muslim man, who worked in the town as a barber, had molested a local 14-yr-old girl. The incident allegedly took place on Aug 22 but came to light…
NEW DELHI: Railways seems to be in a fix to get enough fresh technical manpower through the IRMS, an integrated railway service that govt approved in 2019. So far, no fresh officer recruited under this new regime has joined work as the first batch is still undergoing training and railways isn’t funding enough takers as…
