NEW DELHI: After Tamil Nadu police’s withdrawal of an FIR against lottery king Santiago Martin in an alleged corruption case, now Enforcement Directorate has hit a new hurdle with Kolkata police filing a closure report in two FIRs against Martin and his company citing “want of evidence”.In the absence of a predicate offence (police FIR…
GUWAHATI: Around 15 labourers were feared trapped inside a coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district after a sudden gush of water flooded the site Monday morning.The accident occurred around 7 am at Assam Coal Quarry, situated in Umrangso’s 3 Kilo area in the district. According to locals, about 10-15 workers were inside the quarry…
BENGALURU: A 38-year-old software consultant and his wife died by suicide after killing their two children in Bengaluru on Sunday night. Financial burden and emotional stress are said to have forced the couple to take the extreme step.Preliminary investigation suggested Anup Kumar and Rakhi (35) poisoned their five-year-old autistic daughter Anupriya and two-year-old son Priyansh,…
MUMBAI: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing manipulation of documents for plots in ecologically sensitive Coastal Regulation Zones (CRZ) and no development zones (NDZ) in Mumbai has found 63 more forged records. With this, the total number of forged land record maps have touched 165.The tampering, which facilitated unauthorised construction on hundreds of properties along…
MUMBAI: Actor Salman Khan was the primary target of the gang that shot NCP politician Baba Siddique on October 12, said the police chargesheet submitted on Monday.The chargesheet claimed that Siddique’s murder was executed as part of a fallback plan after an initial attempt to eliminate Khan failed because of the security cover around the…
CHENNAI: In yet another faceoff between the M K Stalin govt and Tamil Nadu Raj Bhavan, governor R N Ravi Monday walked out of the state assembly within three minutes of entering the House, and without reading the customary address, in protest of the national anthem not being played at the start of the first…
NEW DELHI: Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti, which claims to represent 18.5 lakh pujaris and 12 lakh saints, moved Supreme Court in support of petitioners seeking scrapping of Places of Worship Act.The petitioner, an organisation of 127 sects of Sanatan Dharma, sought impleadment in pending cases filed by BJP’s Ashwini Upadhyay, Subramanian Swamy and other Hindu…
RAIPUR: The IED triggered Monday, killing eight constables and a driver, was planted long ago, authorities said, with grass growing on the wires connected to it.“It was probably a command IED, one that is triggered manually by Maoists with a switch wired to the bomb,” Dantewada DIG Kamlochan Kashyap said. The blast was triggered near…
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh police‘s counter-insurgency force District Reserve Guard (DRG) lost eight constables and a driver when Maoists targeted their vehicle by setting off an IED weighing almost 70kg in Bastar region‘s Bijapur district Monday afternoon.This was the deadliest Maoist attack since April 2023 when a similar IED explosion claimed the lives of 10 security personnel…
NEW DELHI: In contempt proceedings, SC generally acts tough but on Monday was “hoping and praying” for resolution of the stalemate over hospitalisation of farmer Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on a fast-unto-death in support of protesting farmers’ demand for legal guarantee of MSP.Punjab govt, whose chief secretary and DGP are facing contempt petition for…
