KALYAN: In a video going viral on social media, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers can be seen allegedly beating three hawkers in Kalyan after a youth approached them complaining that the trio had physically assaulted him.The MNS workers alleged that on Sunday, the youth identified as Kailash Ghanke, from Vashind near Shahapur taluka, Thane district, had gone to the hawkers to return some...
KOLKATA: The prolonged rainfall that has gathered momentum since the last week of September is unlikely to abate before weekend, despite the gradual weakening of the low pressure in the Bay of Bengal. The well-marked low pressure area that developed in the east central Bay of Bengal reduced in force after reaching southwest Jharkhand and north Chhattisgarh on Monday. However, the cyclonic circulation...
With more than 40 flyovers of all sizes and shapes, Chennai is truly a city of flyovers. But there is hardly anything to brag about if the condition of space under these urban overpasses are of any indication. They are a mess and an eyesore.In the absence of any uniform policy involving various departments – the Greater Chennai Corporation, Highways, Railways and National Highways of India – most of...
NEW DELHI: The water supply in several areas of South Delhi, including Kalkaji, Okhla, Lajpat Nagar, Maharani Bagh, East of Kailash, is likely to be affected on 4-5 October as repair work is to be carried out at the Wazirabad water treatment plant. "Residents are advised to store sufficient quantities of water in advance as per requirement. Water tankers will be available on request" stated an alert...
DEORIA: Six people, including two women, were killed in violence apparently stemming from an already resolved land dispute in Fatehpur village, 20 km from the district headquarters, on Monday morning. Five of the deceased were from the same family. Fourteen people have been detained by police.Post-mortem examinations of the six bodies had been conducted by late Monday evening. Police sources privy to...
MAGO: Border posts of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) along the India-China frontier from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh will have an additional team of intelligence officers for surveillance and information gathering.A highly placed source said the central government has approved a proposal for establishing the set-up that will be known as the Border Intelligence Post (BIP). The move bears...
LONDON: In a shocking incident of "institutional racism" in the UK, nurses reportedly tied a Sikh patient's beard with plastic gloves, leaving him in his own urine and offering him food he could not eat for religious reasons, according to a media report. Despite the man complaining about the discrimination in a note on his deathbed, the nurses were allowed to carry on working, The Independent newspaper...
PATNA: Hailing the publication of the caste survey findings, CM Nitish Kumar on Monday said his government has called a meeting of all the nine political parties which have members in the Bihar Vidhan Sabha, at 3.30 pm on Tuesday and share all the data and findings of the survey before them. The nine political parties are JD(U), RJD, BJP, Congress, CPI-ML, CPM, CPI, HAM(S) and the AIMIM."The report of...
CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday announced that the party would hold agitation against the governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in the delta districts on October 6. Former AIADMK ministers R Kamaraj, O S Manian, C Vijayabaskar, R B Udayakumar and S Semmalai would lead the agitation in Thiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Mayiladuthurai and Cuddalore districts...
GHAZIABAD (UP): A 40-year-old man who allegedly raped his two minor daughters for the last four years and threatened to kill them if they objected has been arrested, a police official said on Monday. Upon noticing the girls, aged 15 and 17 years, traumatized and attending their classes half-heartedly, a teacher sought to know the reason from the elder sister, the official said.The girl narrated their...
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