ROHTAK: A drunk man shot dead a 20-year-old national-level powerlifter, firing five bullets at him after an argument over the sportsperson’s parked motorcycle, which the assailant alleged was blocking his car in a residential lane in Haryana’s Sonipat on Sunday.Vansh, a district-level gold medallist and national silver medallist, had gone to meet his classmates, Akshita…
VARANASI/BHOPAL: Eight Kumbh pilgrims – four from Chhattisgarh’s Raipur, three from MP’s Satna district, and one from Odisha’s Kandhamal – were killed in separate road accidents on Sunday, raising the death toll from such mishaps since the start of the world’s largest religious congregation to 79, report Rajeev Dikshit.An SUV carrying ten pilgrims returning to…
KOLKATA: The family of the RG Kar victim along with other protesters remained on the streets on Sunday, setting up Abhaya clinics and taking out rallies, to mark her 32nd birthday.“My daughter always used to treat patients on her birthday. Every year, we celebrated with payesh and a cake-cutting at night. But this year, her…
AIZAWL: Mizoram’s main opposition, Mizo National Front (MNF), vowed to prevent Lengpui airport in state capital from going into the hands of Indian Air Force even as Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) government has been making efforts to hand over the lone airport to IAF. A team of MNF legislators, led by opposition leader Lalchhandama Ralte,…
PALANPUR/AHMEDABAD: An accident at a road construction site in Banaskantha district claimed the lives of three women and a toddler when a sand-laden dumper truck toppled onto them.The deceased were identified as Renuka Ganawa (24), Sonal Ninama (22), Ila Bhabhor (40) and Rudra (2).The accident took place on Saturday night at Khengarpura village, where labourers…
DEHRADUN: A fast track court in Dehradun acquitted three men who spent four years in jail on rape charges under Pocso Act after finding that the case against them was fabricated. The court ruled that the woman, then 19, was in a consensual relationship with one of the accused and filed a false complaint after…
AGRA: Supreme Court has set aside death penalty awarded to an Agra man who was earlier convicted for murder of his brother, sister-in-law and four children in a property dispute case in 2012. The man, Gambhir Singh, has been in jail since past 13 years. Pulling up the investigating officers, SC stated “the investigation of…
GUWAHATI: N Biren Singh‘s attempts to project himself as the “saviour” of Manipur’s majority Meitei community throughout the 648 days of the ethnic conflict found an echo in his resignation letter as the chief minister on Sunday. He highlighted the state’s “territorial integrity” as one of the “most important” priorities, indirectly appealing to the Centre…
PUNE: For hours, the Chavans didn’t know what had gone wrong with their son. He had been unwell for a few days, down with a bout of diarrhoea, but on January 12, seven-year-old Sai Chavan suddenly fell to the ground, and stopped moving. Mother Noor Jahan and father Suraj rushed him to hospital where doctors…
HYDERABAD: The grandson of Velamati Chandrashekara Janardhan Rao, founder of Telangana’s Veljan Group of Industries, was arrested Sunday on charges of brutally murdering the 86-year-old over a property dispute three days ago.Police said they had recovered the murder weapon from Kilaru Kirti Teja, 29, who had recently returned from the US after completing his master’s…
