MEERUT: The recent arrest of a suspected serial killer by Bareilly police has come under intense scrutiny after people noticed a striking similarity between a previously released sketch of the accused man and his latest photograph. The eerie likeness — down to matching shirt patterns, fabric creases, and facial shadows — has sparked widespread scepticism…
DINDIGUL: Two tourists from Trichy died of suspected asphyxiation in a Kodaikanal hotel room on Saturday after they cooked barbeque chicken on a charcoal stove and left it burning overnight.Police identified the deceased as Anand Prabhu and Jeyakannan. They came to Kodaikanal with two other friends, Sivasankar and Sivaraj, and were staying in a lodge…
BEGUSARAI: A couple and their 10-year-old daughter were murdered in their sleep by unidentified assailants who broke into their residence in Thatha-Rashidpur village of Bihar’s Begusarai district early Saturday. The couple’s five-year-old son was grievously injured in the attack.After killing the victims, the murderers went on to pour acid on their bodies.Sanjivan Singh (45), his…
NEW DELHI: Amid opposition parties demanding enhanced central assistance for Kerala to help rebuild and rehabilitate Wayanad, govt sources said the state was already sitting on a corpus of Rs 540 crore in disaster funds — Rs 395 crore balance in its disaster response fund and Rs 145 crore released by Centre on July 31,…
NEW DELHI: The delay in discharge of Indian nationals serving in Russian Army is threatening to cause discord in Moscow-New Delhi ties with Russian embassy here saying in an official statement issued Saturday that these men “voluntarily contracted” for military service in Russia, even as it committed to working for their early release.The statement followed…
PILIBHIT: Wildlife experts have suggested local communities in close proximity to tiger reserves in Uttar Pradesh should be partners in wildlife conservation programmes to mitigate man-wildlife conflicts. Mudit Gupta, WWF’s (World Wide Fund for Nature), head of Terai Arc Landscape (TAL), which stretches 30,000 sqkm across Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, presented this view.After attending…
SRINAGAR: Two Army soldiers died and four others were wounded during a shootout with “highly trained Pakistani terrorists” in the mountainous forests of Kapran Garol, perched at over 10,000ft, in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district Saturday afternoon.Two civilians were also wounded in the crossfire. “The identities and potential terrorist affiliations of the wounded civilians are being…
NEW DELHI: A day after Raj Thackeray‘s convoy was attacked with betel nuts, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers hurled coconuts and cow dung at Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray’s convoy on Saturday.The police informed that over 20 people have been arrested and the matter is under investigation.Calling it a failure of the state government,…
6NEW DELHI: Taking a swipe at the Congress, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday cautioned the nation against the efforts of “anti-national forces” trying to infuse a narrative that India is bound to face a fate similar to the recent events in its neighborhood, including Bangladesh.Dhankhar expressed deep concern over how certain individuals, despite being…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Saturday issued an ultimatum, demanding immediate action following the shocking incident of rape and murder of a woman, a second-year postgraduate student at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.The preliminary autopsy report indicated that the woman doctor had been sexually abused before being killed.Debnath was found dead…
