AGRA: A court in Kasganj sentenced a man, his 3 sons and two relatives to life in prison for beating a man, 50, to death three years ago. The court of additional sessions judge Sudhakar Rai also imposed a fine of Rs 72,000 on the convicts.On Oct 17, 2021, Ghamandi Singh and his sons Dansahay,…
PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court (HC) has directed the district judge of Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad to investigate how two contradictory orders in a defamation case – one of them unsigned – were uploaded to the court’s website.“So far as conduct of the magistrate is concerned, the court finds that he was not careful. An unsigned,…
NEW DELHI: Discharging three high-ranking officials of Hindustan Unilever Ltd who were facing prosecution for abetment of suicide after one employee took his life on being demoted, Supreme Court said mere allegation of harassment of the deceased would not be sufficient and there must be such action on part of accused which left the deceased…
SURAT: Hours after being arrested for the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in Mota Borsara village near Surat city, one of the two accused died after falling ill in police custody on Thursday.Shivshankar Chaurasiya, 45, was nabbed along with Munna Paswan, 40, near Mandvi town on Wednesday night. Officials said Chaurasiya was taken to…
Union minister Nitin Gadkari NEW DELHI: Flagging that toilets at petrol pumps along highways are either locked or not maintained, causing inconvenience to commuters, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari has warned pump owners of cancelling the NOCs for access roads leading to their fuel stations, reports Dipak Dash. “I urge all such petrol…
NEW DELHI: NIA on Thursday filed a chargesheeted five accused in Lao PDR cyber fraud and human trafficking racket run by a Delhi-based consultancy firm.The accused – identified as Manjoor Alam alias Guddu, Sahil, Ashish alias Akhil, Pawan Yadav alias Afzal alias Afroz, along with key conspirator Kamran Haider alias Zaidi – were involved in…
New Delhi: Cracking down on non-performers and corruption, PM Narendra Modi has asked Union secretaries to carry out rigorous assessment of performance of employees as per rules, which give absolute right to government to retire any staffer in “public interest“.Sources said in an interaction with all central ministers and secretaries on Wednesday, a day after…
AYODHYA: On ordinary days, Syed Majid Ali is a registered medical practitioner who helps UP’s health department implement national programmes. When Dussehra is around, he dedicates himself to Lord Ram for six weeks every year.Majid, the manager of Mumtaz Nagar Ramlila Ramayana Samiti, is the go-to person during the seven-day Ramlila presentation where Hindus and…
MUMBAI: In one of the last cabinet meetings before the announcement of the assembly elections, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, who holds the finance portfolio, was present for only around 10 minutes and left immediately after tribute was paid to Ratan Tata Thursday. Thirty-eight decisions – many of them having major financial implications – were…
Lokayukta police, probing the alleged Muda land allotment scam, on Thursday questioned Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah‘s brother-in-law BM Mallikarjuna Swamy and land-owner J Devaraju for more than nine hours. Swamy, the third accused, and Devaraju, the fourth accused, in the case were questioned separately about allegations of creation of fraudulent documents and violation of the law…
