MUMBAI: A five-year-old boy, while playing, accidentally entered a car in a garage and died due to suffocation as he got trapped in it, in Mulund East on Tuesday. The deceased was reportedly playing with his father, who runs a paan bidi shop at Mhada Colony in Mulund East.The Navghar police have registered an offence…
Swara Bhasker and Fahad Ahmad (Picture credit: X) NEW DELHI: Bollywood actress Swara Bhasker has launched an online crowdfunding effort, seeking public donations to support her husband and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) leader Fahad Ahmad‘s campaign for the upcoming assembly election in Maharashtra.Sharing information about the crowdfunding campaign on social media platform X, Bhasker…
Medical colleges figure disproportionately in the list of complaints to UGC’s anti-ragging cell, but anti-ragging activists complain that the complaints don’t always lead to action. They cite the complaint filed by first year students of JLN Medical College in Raipur about being forced to tonsure their heads and being slapped and physically harassed in the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday said its direction to delete the “caste” column apart from any caste reference in undertrials or convicts’ registers in jails will not impede the collection of data by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj…
For India, Donald Trump’s return to White House isn’t just an acceptable but a desired outcome of US presidential elections, given Trump 1.0’s perceived strategic convergence of interests with India and his close rapport with Narendra Modi.Unsurprisingly, the PM was among the first heads of states to congratulate “my friend” Trump, shortly after the latter’s…
Isro chairman S Somanath speaking at Indian Space Conclave 3.0 in New Delhi. NEW DELHI: Pushing for big investments in the space sector, Isro chairman S Somanath on Tuesday called on major industries to invest in space infrastructure and manufacturing, emphasising the need to build leading space companies in the country.Speaking at the Indian Space…
BENGALURU: The Congress government in Karnataka is facing another huge embarrassment as state excise minister RB Timmapur is accused of corruption and bribery in his department. The Karnataka Wine Merchants’ Association has accused his office of demanding Rs 16 crore in bribe from officials within the excise department.The allegations have heightened calls for accountability, with…
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday said that the houses of those providing shelter to the terrorists would be “razed to ground,” hinting at bulldozer justice. The comments come in sharp contrast to Supreme Court’s observations that had said that mere involvement in crime would not be a ground to…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab housing and urban development department on Wednesday organised “first its kind” camp to issue clearance certificates related to real estate to 51 colonizers.Housing and urban development minister Hardeep Singh Mundian and chief secretary KAP Sinha handed over colony licences, completion certificates, partial completion certificates, letters of intent, zoning plans, building plans, promoter registration…
Union minister Suresh Gopi NEW DELHI: Union minister Suresh Gopi sought regular bail from a magisterial court on Wednesday amid allegations of misbehaving with a woman journalist. The case, which has drawn significant public attention, involves a complaint filed by the journalist working for a local television channel.The court has scheduled the matter for framing…
