KOLKATA: A low pressure area over Odisha is likely to continue bringing in moisture to southern Bengal districts, including Kolkata, till Saturday, after which the skies are likely to clear up. This could lead to showers till Saturday, said the Met office."The area of low pressure formed over the southwest Bay of Bengal a few days ago has been moving towards Odisha since then. By Friday, it is likely to...

CHENNAI: A lovesick man drank poison at the house of a woman after she and her parents turned down his marriage proposal in Chengalpet on Friday. Even as the shocked family was watching him emptying the poison he had brought along, Karthik, 30, attempted to stab the woman.In the melee that followed, an aunt of the woman suffered a stab injury on her neck in her bid to foil his assault. Karthik died...

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NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court has taken a grim view of the allegations that gangsters involved in organised crimes are threatening witnesses from inside prison. Such actions strike at the core of protection of witnesses, who are the eyes and ears of the judicial system and the only means to reach a just decision to bring home the guilt of an accused, it underlined.In a recent order, the court directed...

MUMBAI: Appearing for the first time for a hearing on disqualification petitions filed by the rival Shiv Sena factions, MLAs from both the Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde camps made written submissions before speaker Rahul Narwekar on Thursday. The hearing which followed the Supreme Court order was, however, marked by allegations from the Uddhav Thackeray camp that the speaker was deliberately...

NEW DELHI: The INDIA bloc is aiming to resolve the bulk of the seat-sharing talks by the end of this month even as it realises the problems that await in states like Punjab, Delhi, West Bengal, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. According to sources, the exercise is already underway and the parties hope to get a substantial part of the negotiations done by September 30. "At best, we will complete the exercise...

GURGAON: Gurgaon Police on Thursday arrested a man accused of opening fire and injuring a man during the communal violence in Haryana's Nuh, officials said on Thursday.The police, acting on an FIR registered on July 31 at Sohna City police station, arrested Mohammad Kaif.A Vishva Hindu Parishad-led procession was attacked by mobs in Nuh on July 31. Six people were killed, most of them during the attack....

NEW DELHI: The US has assured India of a quick investigation into the death of Andhra Pradesh student Jaahnavi Kandula, who was struck by a speeding police patrol car in Seattle in January this year.India had "strongly" taken up the case with the Biden administration after a recently released bodycam video showed an American cop "joking and laughing" about the Indian student's death.'She had limited...

Isro has achieved another milestone as live-streaming of Chandrayaan-3 soft-landing on the Moon, which took place on August 23, garnered over eight million viewers, the highest in YouTube history.YouTube chief Neal Mohan has extended his wishes to Isro for achieving the streaming milestone with India’s historic launch on the Moon. Posted on his X’s timeline, Neal Mohan said, “This was so exciting...

THANE: A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for abducting a housewife and her child and extorting money from her husband seven years ago. In her order on Wednesday, additional sessions judge Rachna Tehra, in Maharashtra's Thane district, imposed a fine of Rs 500 on convict Manikandan Selvaraj Nadar, a resident of Diva.The court also acquitted another accused in...