Efforts underway to rescue the labourers trapped inside a coal mine, in Dima Hasao district, Assam. (PTI) GUWAHATI: Leader of workers who are currently trapped at the bottom of the flooded rat-hole coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district was arrested on Thursday night, even as rescuers from Navy and Army made little headway on…
Police at Gurpreet Gogi’s residence (left), and Gurpreet Gogi (Right) LUDHIANA: Ludhiana West MLA Gurpreet Bassi Gogi reportedly died of bullet injuries under mysterious circumstances on Friday night. Joint police commissioner Jaskaran Singh Teja, who confirmed the death, said that he was brought dead to DMC hospital. His body has been placed in the mortuary…
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Representative image/Agencies NEW DELHI: Giving women significant autonomy to choose whether to return to their estranged husbands, Supreme Court Friday ruled that a wife is entitled to maintenance from her husband even if she refuses to comply with a court decree in favour of the man for restitution of conjugal rights.A bench of CJI Sanjiv…
RANCHI: Former Odisha governor Raghubar Das, BJP’s lone Jharkhand CM to complete a full term, returned to the saffron fold Friday with a vow to make his party “fighting fit” and take on the JMM-led INDIA bloc govt from “sadak to sadan (streets to the assembly),”.Das formally rejoined BJP in the presence of state president…
NEW DELHI: Central government employees who donate their organs are entitled to 42-day leave, National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) has said.According to NOTTO chief Dr Anil Kumar, department of personnel and training (DoPT) has issued orders already. “We have put the orders on our website for wider circulation and awareness recently,” he said.Organ…
Expansion of the distribution of food grains mandated by the National Food Security Act of 2013 prevented stunting of about 1.8 million children in eight states, according to a paper in the American Economic Association’s journal on applied economics. The authors of the study conducted an impact evaluation of the NFSA on child stunting, nutrition…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday asked UP government not to allow a fresh flashpoint over a well adjacent to Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal. A bench of CJI Sanjiv Khanna & Justice Sanjay Kumar, which had earlier asked the mosque management committee to move Allahabad HC against a district court-ordered survey of the mosque,…
Representative image/AI generated INDORE: For over six months, a murdered woman’s body lay rotting in a refrigerator in a rented room in MP’s Dewas while another family lived next door, unaware of the horror just a few feet away.The grisly secret was uncovered on Friday and police arrested a suspect, Sanjay Patidar, within hours. The…
NEW DELHI: All operators of the ‘Dhruv’ advanced light helicopter (ALH) have been told by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) that the flying of the indigenous twin-engine choppers should remain suspended till the “root cause” that led to the Jan 5 crash at Gujarat’s Porbandar is established. Preliminary analysis of data retrieved from flight data recorder…
