GURGAON: A three-year-old male tiger is believed to have travelled 125km from the Sariska reserve in Rajasthan to Jhabua forest in Rewari for the second time in eight months.Forest department officials initiated a search for the animal (ST-2302) after its pugmarks were spotted in the Aravali forest on Saturday evening. The tiger is likely to…
DEHRADUN: Five men, including three employees of Uttarakhand Transport Corporation, were arrested on Sunday for allegedly gang-raping a 16-year-old girl inside a bus parked at Dehradun‘s Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT). The assault, which occurred at night last Monday, came to light only after the girl, a resident of Moradabad in UP, reported the incident to…
RANCHI: In a major blow to Jharkhand’s governing JMM and the INDIA bloc months ahead of assembly polls, former chief minister and incumbent cabinet minister in the Hemant Soren govt Champai Soren dropped ample hints on Sunday evening on social media that he had decided to part ways with the Shibu Soren-led tribal party, saying…
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s new foreign minister Arzu Deuba Rana on Sunday embarked on a five-day official visit to India during which she will meet external affairs minister S Jaishankar to discuss ways to strengthen the bilateral ties and promote cooperation.Rana is visiting India at the invitation of Jaishankar, the foreign ministry said in a statement. This…
CHENNAI: Coast Guard director general Rakesh Pal, who was in Chennai to take part in the inauguration of the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, died of cardiac arrest on Sunday. He was 59. Sources said he landed in Chennai on Sunday morning from New Delhi and visited the Coast Guard headquarters near INS Adyar to prepare…
A junior doctor at SSKM and a cop were allegedly assaulted by patients’ kin on Sunday prompting police to detain three from the hospital. The doctor, Subrata Shur, who was protesting over RG Kar incident on SSKM premises, had rushed to check the 15-year-old patient suffering from cancer after being informed that he suffered a…
BHOPAL: CBI on Monday conducted extensive raids in MP’s Singrauli district, targeting officials and suppliers associated with Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL) as part of an investigation into alleged financial irregularities.This operation follows the arrest of a DSP from CBI’s Jabalpur unit on Saturday night for alleged involvement with some NCL officials under suspicion.During subsequent raids…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Sunday took suo motu cognisance of the August 9 rape-murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar hospital. This comes days after Calcutta HC had transferred to probe to CBI expressing reservations about Kolkata police’s probe into the case.CJI D Y Chandrachud ordered registration of suo motu criminal writ…
JAIPUR: A special Pocso court in Pali on Friday sentenced a 47-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for repeatedly raping his 14-year-old daughter, resulting in her pregnancy. The conviction comes nearly a year after the incident, despite the victim, her mother, and other family members turning hostile in court and attempting to withdraw…
KOLKATA: Separated by team loyalty but united by a cause. Scores of Mohun Bagan and East Bengal fans were detained Sunday evening as they protested outside Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, demanding justice for the postgraduate resident doctor who was found raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.Despite their…
