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…
Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati will address her first public meeting in Bihar on Thursday, at Bhabhua in Kaimur district for the second phase of the assembly polls.It will be the start of her election campaign in Bihar. BSP was the first party to declare candidates for the Bihar elections. Bhabhua, along with two other constituencies…
Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur has gone down in history as one of Hindi cinema’s most defining cult films, but the journey to get it made was anything but smooth. The filmmaker recently revealed that the production house originally backing the project, UTV, dropped out just three days before the shoot began — all because…
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…
Lucknow: More than a year after it joined the BJP-led NDA bandwagon, the Jayant Chaudhary-led Rashtriya Lok Dal’s organisational membership soared by around 45% in UP. The party also managed to double its membership in other states, including Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab.UP RLD chief Ramashish Rai told TOI that the drive, conducted between Apr 14…
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…
Lucknow: Former UP DGP and BJP MP Brij Lal recalled some heinous crimes committed in the past that tarnished the image of the state. Among them was the daylight murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai, who was peppered with bullets at the behest of gangster Mukhtar Ansari. Lal said he had seen senior police and…
The morning after his historic victory, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani unveiled a transition team. The 34-year-old democratic socialist, soon to become the city’s first Muslim mayor, has entrusted the reins of his transition to a group of seasoned women who have long shaped the city’s governance from behind the scenes. Who’s leading the…
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…
Lucknow: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said that Bihar is on the brink of a historic political shift. Addressing four big rallies in support of INDIA alliance candidates, Akhilesh said the people of Bihar have decided to end decades of misrule under the BJP-led NDA govt and will elect Tejashwi Yadav as their next…
