SHILONG: A Meghalaya sessions court framed charges Wednesday against five suspects in the murder of Indore-based businessman Raja Raghuvanshi, whose killing during a honeymoon trip to Cherrapunjee in May drew national attention – a marriage barely weeks old ending in death in the northeastern state.The accused – Raja’s wife, Sonam Raghuvanshi, her alleged lover Raj…
To Pass Order On 60-Day BNSS Window NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over delay in framing of charges which derail trial in criminal cases, Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to deal with the problem by passing pan-India guidelines for implementation of provision of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) which says that a court shall frame a…
NEW DELHI: The wife of detained climate activist Sonam Wangchuk told Supreme Court on Wednesday that he was in no way connected with the violence that erupted in Ladakh on September 24 as he was only staging a non-violent and peaceful protest through a hunger strike and that there had been “grave and incurable procedural…
A government school teacher in Burhanpur district has been suspended for allegedly making students perform Namaz-like postures INDORE: A government school teacher in Burhanpur district has been suspended for allegedly making students perform Namaz-like postures before Surya Namaskar at Government Hindi Middle School, Devhari. According to officials, the complaint reached District Education Officer (DEO) Santosh…
In a case of a law enforcer turning law breaker, a Thane traffic constable was fined Rs 2,000 on Oct 27 for riding a friend’s scooter flouting road safety norms, reports Nishikant Karlikar. The cop did not have a valid driving licence, the vehicle’s side mirrors were missing, and it had an obscure number plate…
HYDERABAD: Telangana high court has ruled that a breath analyser test alone is insufficient to prove intoxication, holding that additional medical evidence – like blood and urine tests – is necessary to substantiate such charges.The court made this observation while setting aside the removal of a Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC) driver from the…
NEW DELHI: India will by Saturday implement relaxed flight duty time rules for pilots to ensure the cockpit crew operating flights are not fatigued. DGCA on Wednesday said the seven remaining clauses of revised flight duty time limitations (FDTL) would be implemented from Nov 1. Fifteen clauses of the relaxed rules were implemented on July…
Image credits: Instagram @/dogsofchernobyl1 A team from the animal rescue group Dogs of Chernobyl reported finding several stray dogs with blue fur in the exclusion zone. The group, part of the Clean Futures Fund, has tried several times to catch the animals but has not succeeded.“We are on the ground catching dogs for sterilization and…
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra election commission has ur-ged EC to allow additions and deletions to the July 1 voter list being used for the local body polls up to Oct 15. In a letter, it asked that additional names be included as a supplementary voter list while maintaining the cutoff date of July 1.EC has not…
GUWAHATI: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday ordered police to file treason charges against Congress members in Sribhumi district after a video showed a senior party functionary singing Bangladesh’s national anthem at a meeting Monday.Sarma condemned the act as a “grave insult to national sentiments”. “The anthem was sung with the reverence reserved for…
