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Dehradun: Jagdish Punetha, accused in multiple investment fraud cases, was brought back from Dubai to Uttarakhand after years on the run. The operation was carried out by the state police's Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CBCID) in coordination with Interpol, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities on Thursday. Jagdish, a resident of Silpata in Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh district, is accused of defrauding several people through f ...Read More >
Faridabad: The Jammu and Kashmir Police, along with central agencies, on Thursday began examining a suspicious Maruti Brezza (HR87U9988) found parked at Al-Falah University in Dhauj, Faridabad -- the institution already under the scanner in the ongoing Red Fort blast investigation. This development comes after the tracing down two cars linked to the suspects in the Delhi Red Fort blast case. A red EcoSport, registered at the Rajouri Garden RTO in Delhi, was found parked outside a farmhouse belo ...Read More >
Mumbai: Among the big three from this new, dominant generation of Indian chess players, Arjun Erigaisi was the only one to miss out on qualifying for the 2024 edition of the Candidates Tournament - the pathway to the World Championships. That was a miss that took a toll on him. "That was very tough for me," he had said to Chessbase India. "The first few days of January (2024) were very hard on me." But the 22-year-old from Warangal moved on. He became the highest ranked Indian player, moving t ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -The Indian airports authority said late on Friday that a system used to generate flight plans was "up and running," more than a day after a technical glitch led to delays of hundreds of flights at Delhi airport, one of the world's busiest. The malfunction, which had delayed departures and arrivals, had sent shares of IndiGo 2% lower on Friday, while SpiceJet lost 1% after the airlines, along with Air India Group, warned of disruptions, which are expected to spill over into Saturday. ...Read More >
PATNA: The Patna district administration has registered a first information report (FIR) against Union minister of panchayati raj and senior Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh for allegedly asking his supporters to confine the Opposition leaders to their homes on polling day while campaigning for jailed party candidate Anant Singh in assembly poll-bound Bihar's Mokama constituency on Monday. Officials said the case was filed under relevant sections of the Bhara ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharasthra on Monday alleged that repeated voters (the same voter appearing in the voter list at different places) from Muslim community had benefited the Opposition in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. On the other hand, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said he thanks the ruling party for confirming the Opposition's allegations that there are anomalies in the voters' list. The BJP's allegation came after the Opposition parties on Saturday carried o ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Union government on Thursday notified the appointment of Justice Surya Kant as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI), marking the first time a jurist from Haryana will occupy the country's highest judicial office. He will take oath on November 24, a day after incumbent CJI Bhushan R Gavai demits office. Justice Kant will serve as the 53rd CJI and will have a tenure of about 14 months, retiring on February 9, 2027. The notification comes two days after CJI Gavai initiated the appo ...Read More >
Mumbai hostage live: Accused Rohit Arya released a video before his death According to the Mumbai Police, Arya had released a video believed to have been recorded during the hostage situation, in which he claimed to have certain demands and said he wanted to speak with some individuals. In the clip, he also threatened to "set everything on fire and harm himself and the children" if his demands were not met. Arya said he had taken the children hostage as part of a plan to have "a simple convers ...Read More >
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh began on Tuesday, marking the first such exercise in 22 years. Earlier, this exercise was conducted in UP in 2003. UP chief electoral officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa held a virtual meeting with district electoral officers and other senior officials to brief them on the SIR process. According to the Election Commission of India (ECI) schedule, between October 28 and November 3, the election returning officers (EROs) will print ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah told BJP workers on Monday to ensure a "triple engine government" in the state by winning the upcoming local body polls. Amid the BJP's tussle with its ruling alliance partners over seat-sharing in civic polls, Shah reminded the party workers that the BJP had formed the government on its own after contesting the 2014 assembly election separately. During his two-day visit to Mumbai, Shah has reportedly discussed issues related to the alliance with Shiv Sena ...Read More >
Mumbai: Former Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC) commissioner Anil Pawar, who spent nearly two months in jail in connection with the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) money laundering probe into illegal construction in the Vasai-Virar region, on Monday appealed to the government to revoke his suspension and reinstate him. "I was suspended because I was in custody for more than 48 hours. But my arrest was illegal - the high court has said this. Even the Supreme Court refused to stay th ...Read More >
Mumbai: The state government on Monday signed as many as 15 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) worth ₹55,969 crore, coinciding with the first day of the India Maritime Week 2025. The MoUs, all related to maritime trade and industry, were signed in the presence of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis at the NESCO Exhibition Centre in Mumbai. The biggest MoU, worth ₹42,500 crore, was signed with Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), for expansion of the port at Dighi. APSEZ had acquired 100 ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday laid the foundation for the new state BJP headquarters, a 10-storey building to be constructed on a 1,378-square-metre plot at Marine Lines. The Opposition, however, has trained its guns on the BJP, raising questions on the land acquisition and the prompt approvals given by the BMC for its transfer. SPREAD OVER 55,000 square feet, the office will house a 400-seat auditorium, six meeting rooms, a conference hall, a four-storey parking facility, res ...Read More >
MUMBAI: A 37-year-old school bus owner-driver was arrested for trying to extort money from several parents by sending them threatening messages claiming he would kidnap their children if they didn't pay up. The police said that the accused, who also ran a mobile shop in Kashimira, had used a customer's SIM card to send the messages. According to the Kashmira police in Mira Road, several people whose children studied at the St Jerome Convent High school, Mira Road East, had received messages fro ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Formula 1 paddock has been witness to a very sombre version of Lando Norris in the past couple of months. Jovial and often seen having a laugh with fellow drivers and teammates, the 25-year-old has been more reserved, politically correct and not displaying too much emotion since the mechanical failure of his McLaren at the Dutch Grand Prix on August 31. That DNF (did not finish) was a crucial moment in the F1 title race with the Briton falling 34 points behind teammate and champi ...Read More >
India faces a dilemma: Should it continue buying Russian oil one way or another, or cease its imports altogether? For sure, the US has no right to dictate how two sovereign nations conduct their bilateral trade. While Russian companies have been sanctioned by the US, Moscow has no intention of stopping its oil exports. It is for the importing countries, such as India and China, to decide whether they are willing to risk potential secondary sanctions from the US for doing business with the sancti ...Read More >
Mumbai: In a departure from recent practice, many India players have begun to prioritise match time over customised personal net sessions as a way to prepare for Test cricket. The latest to join the queue is opening batter Yashasvi Jaiswal who has made himself available for Mumbai's next round of Ranji Trophy action in Jaipur starting November 1. Before Jaiswal, Ravindra Jadeja put his hand up. The all-rounder is currently participating in the ongoing round of Ranji action in Rajkot for Saurash ...Read More >
Kochi: At least two persons have been arrested so far by the Kerala high court-constituted special investigation team (SIT), which has been probing the misappropriation of gold from the gold-plated copper sheets covering the 'Dwarapalaka' sculptures and the side frames of the sanctum sanctorum at the Sabarimala Sree Ayyappa temple - a case that has escalated into a major political controversy in the state ahead of crucial local body polls. The temple on the hill of Sabarimala, where the presidi ...Read More >
New Delhi: A 25-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for duping his father of ₹26.32 lakh by creating a new UPI ID from the father's phone number and making multiple online purchases over four months, police said. According to police, the accused Shivam Sharma is a former corporate employee and is the victim's son from his second marriage. Sharma purportedly felt alienated after the man, 68, handed over his Azadpur Mandi parking business to his son from the first marriage. Deputy commissioner ...Read More >
Mumbai: Eight members of a family, including three children aged three to seven years, were rescued on Sunday morning after a fire broke out in their flat in a high-rise building in Kandivali West. The fire was likely caused by a short circuit and doused within 20 minutes while three family members had to be admitted to the hospital after suffering suffocation due to smoke inhalation, officials said. The blaze, reported around 7.45am, broke out in the living room of a three-bedroom flat on the ...Read More >
Jamshedpur: Six children suffering from thalassemia have contracted HIV after they were allegedly administered infected blood during transfusions at a hospital in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, prompting the state government to order a high-level investigation and suspend the civil surgeon and other officials concerned, officials aware of the matter said on Sunday. The Jharkhand high court has taken suo motu cognisance of the incident and sought a detailed report from the health secretary. ...Read More >
Karnal: A flight carrying 53 residents of Haryana who had been deported from the US for allegedly staying illegally landed at the Delhi airport on Saturday night, an official aware of the matter said on Sunday. The official added that all 53 had been handed over to their family members. The latest flight comes nearly 10 months after the deportation of more than 300 Indians in three US military flights had caused a controversy, as women and children too were handcuffed and put in shackles, and ...Read More >
PATNA: The Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Sunday expelled 16 rebel leaders, including an MLA and two former ministers, from the party. Some of these leaders are contesting polls against official NDA candidates in the upcoming assembly election in the state. Those expelled included Narendra Niraj alias Gopal Mandal, MLA from Gopalpur in Bhagalpur district, Sanjeev Shyam Singh, a former MLC who is contesting the Gurua assembly seat in Gaya district as the candidate of Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj Pa ...Read More >
Kolkata: The mesmerising thing about Rohit Sharma in one-day cricket isn't so much about his runs and records but how after so many years he can still be in complete control of the tempo he decides to set in the first place. There was the phase of daddy hundreds when Rohit was intent on exploiting the length and breadth of one-day innings, securing a record three double centuries and innumerable wins for India in the process. Had he not moved out of that mode, he would have had more than his 33 ...Read More >
PATNA: Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, the INDIA bloc's chief ministerial face in Bihar, on Sunday announced that the allowances of panchayat raj representatives, including those elected from gram kutcheries (village courts), would be doubled and former panchayat representatives would get pension, if the alliance comes to power in the state. "The panchayat raj representatives of three tier panchayat raj institutions ( PRIs) have long demanded a hike in their allowances.We will double their allowances in ...Read More >
GREATER NOIDA: Police in Greater Noida have arrested two more accused in connection with the fatal thrashing of a 17-year-old Dalit boy on October 15 allegedly by a group of men in an area under the Rabupura police station, officials said on Saturday, adding that the victim succumbed to his injuries days later. The two absconding accused, arrested on Saturday, have been identified as Rachit and Ankit, both in their 20s, residents of Rabupura. Rachit was held from Kheda underpass, near the servi ...Read More >
Hyderabad: In a new twist to the horrific bus fire on National Highway 44 (NH-44) near Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool town that claimed 19 lives in the early hours of Friday, investigations by the police revealed that the bus did not ram into a moving motorcycle, but ran over a bike lying on the highway after a road accident, police officials said. Kurnool district superintendent of police Vikrant Patil said on Saturday that Panchala Shiva Shankar (20) and his friend Erriswamy, both residents of Laks ...Read More >
New Delhi: Public Works Department (PWD) minister Parvesh Verma on Saturday said the Yamuna's faecal coliform levels -- which indicate human and animal waste contamination -- had dropped by more than 90% compared to last year's October figures. This led to a political row, as opposition parties claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was "misleading" people ahead of the Bihar elections. Verma said that four of the eight major sampling points in the river were now within or close to the pe ...Read More >
New Delhi: Education minister Ashish Sood on Saturday launched the campaign 'Jal Sangam se Jan Sangam - The Festival of Unity' from the banks of the Yamuna at Sonia Vihar, marking the beginning of a nationwide celebration of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's 150th birth anniversary. Under the initiative, students from Delhi government schools on Saturday collected Yamuna water, termed "ekta ka jal", and will carry it to 25 culturally significant rivers across the country, symbolising India's unity. Th ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached movable and immovable assets valued at ₹67.79 crore in connection with its money laundering investigation against M/s Corporate Power Limited and its promoters-directors Manoj Jayaswal, Abhijeet Jayaswal, Abhishek Jayaswal, and others. The attachment, made under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, includes bank balances, land parcels, buildings, flats and commercial spaces spread across Maharashtr ...Read More >
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