RAIPUR: Mourners laying to rest a 60-year-old farmer, allegedly trampled to death by wild elephants less than 24 hours earlier, were sent scurrying for cover by a herd that stormed the funeral, charged at the crowd and wrecked several vehicles in Chhattisgarh’s forested Jashpur district. While the mourners asserted it was the same herd, forest…
BAREILLY: A 22-year-old man, Mohd Mehboob, suffered severe burn injuries and is in a critical condition after three unidentified men allegedly tied him to a pole, poured petrol on him and set him on fire while he was returning from a mosque after offering Friday namaz. As the ropes got burned, he could free himself…
Muskan (R) and Sahil allegedly killed the former’s husband and hid his dismembered remains in a blue drum at his Meerut house BAREILLY: After facing months of social boycott, the family of Muskan Rastogi, the prime accused in Meerut’s ‘blue drum murder case’ that hit national headlines in March, has purportedly pasted a ‘for sale’…
Australian Federal Police imposed a fresh penalty on Indian-origin Melbourne couple who kept an old Indian woman as their slave for eight years. An Indian-origin Melbourne couple who were jailed in 2021 for enslaving an old Tamil woman for eight years have been imposed with a fresh penalty, the Australian Federal Police revealed on Friday….
MUMBAI: A day after a row erupted over irregularities in a Rs 300 crore Pune land deal involving a firm linked to his son Parth, deputy CM Ajit Pawar said Friday the deal had been cancelled. At the same time, he defended his son, saying only a sale agreement had been made, the final transaction…
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: India on Friday inked an over $1 billion (Rs 8,900 crore) deal with US major General Electric (GE) for another 113 jet engines to power the much-delayed indigenous Tejas Mark-1A fighters. This may to some extent assuage the Donald Trump administration amid tariff tensions. The delivery of the 113 new GE-F404 engines to…
BUDGAM: J&K CM Omar Abdullah Friday attacked the PDP, accusing it of betraying people’s trust in 2014 by joining hands with the BJP after the assembly polls to form the govt in the state.He was addressing a gathering in Budgam, the assembly constituency going to vote in the bypoll on November 11. Omar had vacated…
National Board for Wildlife – a panel that takes decisions on projects in areas near wildlife protected zones – has given its approval to 13 defence and paramilitary projects, most in Ladakh and one in Arunachal Pradesh. Clearances have been given on conditions of following environmental safeguards and mitigation plans to protect Himalayan ecosystems. The…
JUMMU: The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh high court will hear the habeas corpus petition of detained Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Mehraj Malik on November 20.Malik, who is AAP’s Jammu & Kashmir unit president, was detained on Sept 8 under the stringent Public Safety Act for allegedly disturbing public order. Ever since, he has…
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir high court upheld on Thursday the detention of a woman under the Public Safety Act. The woman is accused by government of being an “overground worker (OGW) who had close contact with Musaib Lakhvi, the nephew of Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi”, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind and LeT co-founder.Appellant Shaista Maqbool…
