PUNE: An IT engineer and his wife, desperate to cure their two daughters’ ailments since birth, were defrauded of Rs 14 crore since 2018 by a woman claiming to have spiritual healing powers. The couple, in their fifties, sold properties in the UK and Pune and depleted their savings, including provident funds, to follow the…
NEW DELHI: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has released a new guidance for asset recovery, expanding its scope beyond corruption.Officials in Delhi said that the global anti-money laundering watchdog has drawn extensively from the work done by the Directorate of Enforcement and multiple instances of action taken by ED have been cited in the…
PANAJI: Police arrested owners of two north Goa beach belt establishments whose LED signboards displayed “Pakistan Zindabad” slogan in two separate cases. Cops also disconnected the LED boards at Revive Hair Cutting Salon, Baga, and Whiskey Pedia, Arpora, and charged the owners under BNS and IT Act provisions for threatening India’s unity, integrity, security and…
ROORKEE: A case has been registered against a teacher of a junior high school near Roorkee for allegedly thrashing a Class 7 student so severely that the boy’s eye and ear were grievously injured, requiring him to undergo critical surgery at AIIMS Delhi.The 13-year-old suffered “loss of vision in the left eye due to damaged…
Surdas Ram Bhajan (40), who has been blind since birth, is among those named in FIRs. ‘I have never even seen the forest,’ he says BAREILLY: A blind man was booked for hunting deer, a mentally ill man shackled since childhood was accused of cutting down trees, and a man who cannot walk was charged…
AHMEDABAD: ‘Hard videographic proof’ of three persons – one allegedly wielding an AK-47 – being involved in the 2002 communal riots withered away during trial, with the videographer recanting his statement and the tape disappearing. An Ahmedabad court has finally acquitted the three accused.The trio was booked on a complaint filed by a videographer, Satish…
Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav, Prashant Kishor PATNA: Ministers, movie and music stars, and a murder accused. The stage is set, the battle lines drawn. Bihar’s political elite – CM hopeful Tejashwi Yadav of RJD, two deputy CMs, and 13 cabinet ministers – brace for a verdict from 3.75 crore voters in the first phase of…
SRINAGAR: The J&K opposition questioned Wednesday the motive behind the National Conference-led government’s exhaustive identification checklist for journalists, demanding to know if the new rules meant to “monitor and restrict media” were being selectively enforced in only one part of the country.“The election in J&K was meant to restore trust and dignity, not to replace…
JAMMU: A 22-year-old Agniveer attached to 11 Rashtriya Rifles was wounded Wednesday when a gunfight broke out between security forces and terrorists hiding in Kalaban forest of Kishtwar district in J&K, official sources said.The joint operation by Army and J&K police began after intelligence inputs pointed to the presence of terrorists in the area. Forces…
LoP in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Alleging that the 2024 Haryana assembly elections were stolen through manipulation of voters list by Election Commission in collusion with BJP, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday presented a deep…
