NEW DELHI: Hours before arrest for the murder of his wife, 26-year-old Nikki, the accused, Vipin, posted a late-night Instagram story that appeared to frame her death as a suicide, despite a video showing him assaulting her and mounting evidence that she was set on fire. In the Instagram story he said the world is…
RAIPUR: Taunting a husband for being unemployed during a financially vulnerable period amounts to mental cruelty, Chhattisgarh high court has ruled while granting divorce to a 52-year-old lawyer from Durg.A division bench of Justice Rajani Dubey and Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad set aside an Oct 2023 family court judgment that had dismissed his petition. The…
KOLKATA: Calcutta high court has commuted the death sentence of a 34-year-old woman and her 37-year-old boyfriend, convicted of killing her one-and-a-half-year-old son in 2016, observing that their crime did not fall under the category of “rarest of rare”. On Thursday, the court sentenced them to life imprisonment without remission for 40 years, reports Srishti…
NEW DELHI: Vipin Bhati, husband of Nikki Bhati who died after being assaulted and set ablaze at her in-laws’ home, was injured in a police encounter on Sunday.Police said Vipin attempted to escape from custody following his arrest in the dowry murder case. Officers opened fire when he tried to flee, leaving him with a…
NEW DELHI: India does not see space only as a field of research but as the future of tomorrow’s economy, security, energy and humanity, and cannot afford to stay behind in the journey, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday.“We’re steadily advancing beyond the earth’s surface into new frontiers of space. We’ve already marked our…
NEW DELHI: Ukraine ambassador Oleksandr Polishchuk has said that India and Ukraine remain in touch about a possible visit by President Volodymyr Zelensky to India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited the president to visit India when he travelled to Kyiv last year and Zelensky had accepted the same.“In relation to the declaration about the…
NEW DELHI: An investigation by ED, assisted by the ministry of external affairs (MEA) and its foreign missions and embassies, has unearthed a massive NRI admission racket, in which private medical colleges were found offering admissions on about 18,000 reserved MBBS UG and PG seats under the quota by using forged documents of non-resident Indians.India’s…
GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma accused activist Harsh Mander, Congress, Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind, a senior advocate, and “people from Pakistan and Bangladesh” of attempting to destabilise the state.“Some people have been visiting different parts of the state since Saturday to spread unrest. Their movements are under strict watch to ensure they do not succeed the…
NEW DELHI: India will continue purchasing oil “from wherever it gets the best deal,” even as Washington imposes punitive tariffs in retaliation for New Delhi’s imports of Russian crude, India’s ambassador to Moscow, Vinay Kumar, told Russian news agency TASS on Sunday.The remarks come days after the United States slapped an additional 25% duty on…
NEW DELHI: The seven-day deadline set by Election Commission (EC) for Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to submit an affidavit along with evidence to back his ‘vote chori’ allegations with respect to Karnataka, Maharashtra, Haryana and Bihar has ended, with no sign of any signed declaration from the Congress functionary.Chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar had,…
