NEW DELHI: A prisoner on parole was fired at by a rival gang while receiving treatment at a private hospital in Patna on Thursday morning.The prisoner identified as Chandan Mishra, charged with multiple cases of murder, was admitted to Paras hospital for treatment when unknown assailants fired at him and injured him inside the hospital…
NEW DELHI: As the run up to the Bihar polls heats up, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday morning announced a major relief for residents: free electricity for up to 125 units. While unveiling the scheme, Kumar praised his government’s long-standing commitment to affordability, stating that starting August 1, all domestic consumers will be exempt…
File photo: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla The Cabinet on Wednesday passed a resolution congratulating Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla for the successful completion of his 18-day mission aboard the ISS, mentioning that it heralds a new chapter in India’s space programme and gives a golden glimpse of future programmes. The resolution mentioned: “Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s…
Air India 171 crash NEW DELHI: The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) on Wednesday raised serious concerns over the preliminary findings and public commentary surrounding the crash of Air India Flight AI171, which went down in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff en route to London.In an official statement, the FIP said, “We register our dissatisfaction with…
FIle photo: West Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee accused BJP-governed states of imposing a “super-Emergency” by targeting and illegally detaining Bengali-speaking people, claiming her govt had received nearly 1,000 such complaints since June.“I’m extremely sorry, hurt and heartbroken. People are being tortured just for speaking in their mother tongue,” she said…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday turned the tables on a married woman, who sought cancellation of anticipatory bail to a man accused of raping her on promise of marriage, by warning her she might be liable for prosecution for having a physical relationship with a man other than her husband during subsistence of her…
Balasore girl set self ablaze after being forced by principal to apologise to harasser, drop plaint, claims kin BHUBANESWAR/BALASORE: Minutes before a 20-year-old college student set herself ablaze on July 12, she was allegedly coerced by her college principal to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against a senior faculty member and apologise to the accused,…
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee leads a TMC rally in Kolkata Wednesday to protest the ‘targeting’ of Bengali-speaking people in BJP states KOLKATA: Calcutta high court asked the Union government on Wednesday to file an affidavit explaining the rationale behind the “sudden” countrywide raids in June targeting Bengali-speaking people as potentially illegal Bangladeshi migrants.“What were the…
Sian was arrested in Arizona on June 27. Court documents show that he also had operational ties with chemical suppliers linked to the Chinese Communist Party NEW DELHI: The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has busted an ISI-China-Canada linked international drug cartel and arrested a notorious Indo-Canadian gangster, Opinder Singh Sian aka Thanos, running a…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the special committee constituted by the ministry of information and broadcasting to decide by Monday pleas opposing screening of censor board-cleared ‘Udaipur Files: Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder’ on the ground that the movie, based on the beheading of the Udaipur tailor for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad, marked shocking…