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…
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…
TOI correspondent from London: The general counsel of banned outfit Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, designated a terrorist by India, has produced a video making threats against India’s sovereignty once again, this time threatening to start independence movements in other states besides Punjab.“Mission of SFJ 2024 ONE India To 2047 NONE India,” Pannun…
NEW DELHI: The late Ratan Tata once took to art to raise funds for a good cause and the painting has a pride of place at the lobby of Mumbai’s iconic Taj Mahal Palace. The year was 2006 and paintings that were to be a collaborative effort between a famous Indian personality from the field…
In a major drug bust on Thursday evening, law enforcement officials confiscated 200 kg of cocaine from west Delhi, with an estimated street value of Rs 2,000 crore. According to a police official, this marks the second largest seizure of cocaine within a week.Currently, a raid is being conducted in the Ramesh Nagar area of…
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: The Maharashtra cabinet has decided to request the central government to raise the income limit for the ‘non-creamy layer‘ category to Rs 15 lakh per annum from the current Rs 8 lakh. This decision came ahead of the upcoming assembly elections, likely to be held…
