MUMBAI: BMC’s reservation lottery for 227 electoral wards conducted Tuesday may have reshuffled key political cards in the city as several known political faces ended up losing their previously-held seats to one of kind of reservation or other, some others realised they may be able to sneak in from a neighouring ward nonetheless, and some…
Investigators sought an opinion from forensics on whether PETN, semtex or RDX could have been used NEW DELHI: There is mystery over the kind of explosive or chemical used in Monday’s blast with the forensics and NSG’s explosive wing yet to submit their report. However, prima facie assessment points towards the use of military-grade explosives,…
MUMBAI: Bombay High Court on Tuesday sought a reply from the state on a petition filed by Shehzeen Siddique, widow of former Maharashtra minister and NCP neta Baba Siddique, who was shot dead last October in Bandra by three assailants. She sought a court-monitored probe by an SIT or an independent agency, Swati Deshpande. Shehzeen…
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami felicitate Sachin Kumar (Image credits: ANI) DEHRADUN: Sachin Kumar (16), who conquered Mount Everest in May this year, paid a courtesy call on Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday. Congratulating Kumar on his achievement, the CM said that conquering the world’s highest peak at such a young age…
TIRUPATI: Andhra Pradesh police have arrested a 50-year-old woman for allegedly hiring hitmen to kill her elder son after months of friction over money and property, investigators said Tuesday. Shyamala allegedly agreed to pay Rs 6 lakh to a local supari gang, claiming her 22-year-old son, Jayaprakash Reddy, had been harassing her financially. Jayaprakash, an…
RAIPUR: “I killed your father, stuffed the body in a bag and left it at home,” a 40-year-old woman from Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district allegedly made this chilling confession to her 23-year-old newlywed daughter in Korba over the phone on November 9 before apparently vanishing without a trace.The accused, Mangrita, who works in Mumbai, had returned…
At a polling station in Hyderabad HYDERABAD: Six election surveillance drones – deployed for the first time in India to track irregularities – were brought down by unidentified miscreants using kites during Tuesday’s bypoll in Hyderabad’s Jubilee Hills. What was meant to be a technological leap in election monitoring turned into an airborne drama that…
SRINAGAR: A Kashmiri cleric who doubled as a paramedic at Srinagar’s Govt Medical College has been arrested for allegedly driving a “white-collar” terrorist module that targeted medical students and young doctors — some of whom are suspects in the network busted in Faridabad hours before Monday’s car blast in New Delhi.Moulvi Irfan Ahmad Wagay, also…
SRINAGAR: Four days of unbroken police action stretched across Kashmir valley Tuesday, with more than 1,000 people rounded up so far in what officials called a “pre-emptive strike” aimed at dismantling terrorist support networks and preventing attempts to disrupt peace.J&K police said teams carried out surprise checks across districts to create what they described as…
PULWAMA: A quiet lane with open shops in Koil village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama. The path leads to the two-storey home of 29-year-old doctor Umar Un Nabi, believed to have been inside the car linked to Monday’s explosion in New Delhi. Women huddled in the kitchen. Then police arrived for his mother. Officers said she…
