KANPUR: A deception game with eerie echoes of the UP-set ‘Bunty Aur Babli’ has unspooled in Kanpur, where a pair allegedly bilked Rs 35 crore from over two dozen couples with promises of an “Israel-made time machine to turn them into 25-year-olds”.Rajeev Dubey and wife Rashmi lured clients with the elixir of “oxygen therapy” once…
NEW DELHI: A 50-year-old Unani doctor was shot dead inside his cabin at Nima Hospital in Khadda Colony of South Delhi‘s Jaitpur Extension early on Thursday.According to police, two shooters, reportedly minors, entered the hospital posing as patients at around 1.15am. One of them got treated for a purported foot injury and then entered the…
CHANDIGARH: Dalit politician Ashok Tanwar’s return to Congress on Thursday is being seen by political analysts as unlikely to benefit the party. However, the timing of his switch, on the same day BJP ran advertisements accusing Congress of being anti-Dalit, has become a talking point.Just hours before his re-entry into Congress, Tanwar had campaigned for…
A mob took away around 21 firearms and 900 rounds of assorted ammunition from the armoury of Ukhrul police station in Manipur in a raid coinciding with Wednesday’s gunfight 3km away involving two Naga villages, officials revealed Thursday as the death toll in the violence rose to four.While cops are still to report the number…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday convicted former MLA and RJD functionary Vijay Kumar Shukla alias Munna Shukla and Mantu Tiwari for the 1998 murder of former Bihar minister Brij Bihari Prasad and awarded them life imprisonment. The court, however, granted benefit of doubt to five other accused including former MP Suraj Bhan Singh, acquitting them…
NEW DELHI: Opposing criminalisation of marital rape, the Centre on Thursday told Supreme Court that a husband and wife share a unique multifaceted relationship which is not exclusively centred on sex and stressed if Parliament has thoughtfully carved out an exception for marital rape in the penal provisions (in Sec 375 of IPC), it should…
AHMEDABAD: In a chilling tale of revenge, a 30-year-old man mowed down his father’s murderer in Ahmedabad’s Bodakdev locality after waiting 22 years for an opportune moment. The accused, who was eight years old when his father was crushed to death in a similar manner, grew up hearing stories about the killers, and nursed a…
Under attack for her comments on the divorce of actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Naga Chaitanya, forest minister Konda Surekha on Thursday withdrew her remarks that triggered strong reactions from political leaders and the Telugu cinema with actor Akkineni Nagarjuna suing her for defamation. The minister said her intention was to only highlight how BRS…
On Sept 18, a small village in Chhattisgarh‘s Sakti woke up to find that a ‘SBI’ branch had sprung up overnight. It sported the logo, and cashiers and a manager who looked busy and business-like. Chhapora village felt like it had arrived.The trusting villagers had no way of knowing it was an elaborate fraud. Even…
NEW DELHI: Govt is seeking to put one lakh youth for internship under the PM Internship Scheme in top companies by Dec 2 and launched registration by top 500 companies based on CSR spend, which will be followed by online applications by aspirants between 21 and 24 years.On day one of the pilot, 111 companies…
