Lucknow: The Ayodhya police on Friday said that the powerful explosion that ripped through a house in Paglabhari village under Pura Kalandar police station area late Thursday night was caused by an LPG gas cylinder blast in the kitchen. Meanwhile, body of a woman was recovered from the debris on Friday morning, taking the toll…
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Friday expressed displeasure that despite the court’s earlier order, the state government did not furnish a clear reply as to what it would do if a political party organised any caste-based rally. The HC has banned caste-based rallies in the state since July 11, 2013.Irked…
Lucknow: The Rae Bareli police on Friday arrested the main accused in the lynching of Hariom Valmiki (40) in Unchahar earlier this month. The accused, identified as Deepak Agrahari (32) was apprehended following an encounter with the police near the Ganga Katri area under the Dalmau police station limits. Police had announced a reward of…
Bengaluru: Prof Kanishka Biswas from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, has been honoured with 2025 TWAS-CAS Young Scientists Award for Frontier Science in Physical Sciences, given by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Unesco.The annual award, instituted in 2020, honours scientists below 45 years of age who are living and working…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking pan-India guidelines for governing social media intermediaries with respect to suspension and blocking of accounts.The apex court allowed the two petitioners to withdraw the plea and told them that they were free to seek any other remedy available in law before an…
PATNA: Less than a month ahead of polling for Bihar assembly elections, three functionaries from JDU and one from the LJP (Ram Vilas), including former Purnia MP Santosh Kumar Kushwaha, joined the RJD on Friday, report Manoj Chaurasia.Kushwaha was among the few netas credited with reviving JDU’s presence in Seemanchal region of the state. He…
NEW DELHI: Why should people facing trial in petty cases to heinous crimes, like murder or rape, be denied right to vote given the golden legal principle that presumes a person to be “innocent till found guilty by a court of law”.A PIL asked this question in Supreme Court on Friday and said because of…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday expressed concern over large number of deaths of children in Madhya Pradesh due to intake of contaminated cough syrups manufactured by a Tamil Nadu-based pharma company but refused to entertain a PIL seeking a court-monitored probe by an expert committee into the incident and steps for prevention of…
India players celebrate after scoring against Singapore on Thursday Not everything went India’s way in the third-round clashes of the AFC Asian Cup 2027 qualifiers.Reduced to ten men early in the second half after Sandesh Jhingan was sent off just after resumption, India were a minute away from a second consecutive loss, and almost out…
Barely 4% of Indians have access to palliative care On the eve of World Palliative Day, palliative care experts have drawn attention to “passive violence” implicit in the dismal access that Indians have to basic pain relief. Forty years after palliative care came to India, it is estimated that barely 4% of citizens have access,…