NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a woman is the sole owner of her ‘streedhan‘, the gold ornaments and other articles given by her parents at the time of marriage, and said that after divorce, her father has no authority to demand return of those gifts from her erstwhile in-laws.One P Veerabhadra Rao’s…
RAIPUR: At least three Maoists, all women, were gunned down by security forces on the border of Kanker and Narayanpur districts in Bastar region, police said on Thursday.This is the first major gunfight in over a month and takes the number of Maoists killed this year to 192 – an average of almost one a…
BAHRAICH: After several days of combing, UP forest department teams, which had fanned out in the sugarcane fields of Sisaiya village in Bahraich, managed to capture a male wolf on Thursday. Forest officials believe that it is one of the three ‘killer‘ wolves on the prowl in the district.The teams are now on the lookout…
KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee spoke out Thursday against “attempts to twist” her statements, saying she supported the protests by junior doctors demanding justice for the RG Kar rape-murder victim.“Let me most emphatically clarify that I have not uttered a single word against the (medical, etc) students or their movements. I totally support their movement.Their…
KOLKATA: Purported recordings of three phone conversations over eight minutes between a representative of Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital and the family of the junior doctor found raped and murdered on Aug 9 went viral on Thursday, matching what CBI says the official told interrogators that she was “under instructions” to lie on each occasion.Sucharita Sarkar,…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked all ministers and top officials to “inform” people about decisions taken by govt to counter “false narratives”, while urging them to expedite decision making at all levels.“The PM said while the govt has taken several important decisions to transform the lives of common man and people from…
NEW DELHI: India plans to commission its third nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) in another six months to further bolster its sea-based leg of the nuclear weapons triad, after the second such boat was formally inducted into the Strategic Forces Command as INS Arighaat at Visakhapatnam on Thursday.The third SSBN, undergoing trials ahead of her…
SRINAGAR: The Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP), founded by former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad just two years ago, has virtually downed its shutters after Azad stepped back from campaigning for party candidates, citing bad health.Azad formed DPAP in Sept 2022 after resigning from Congress, when the Group of 20 within the party resented Congress’…
NEW DELHI: Mamata Banerjee, who has weathered several storms in her long political career, finds herself cornered and isolated over the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata’s R G Kar Hospital. While the BJP has been mounting relentless pressure on the West Bengal chief minister, her allies from the opposition INDIA…
NEW DELHI: Over 31 children fell ill on Thursday after consuming filariasis medicine in Bihar‘s Ara. Their condition is now reported to be normal.The medicine, that treats a long-term parasitic infection transmitted by mosquitoes, was given to the kids as a part of health campaign organised in school.The kids were admitted to Ara Sadar Hospital…
