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BHIWANDI: Two days after the decomposed body of a six-year-old girl was found dunked in a plastic bucket, with its lid on, in Bhiwandi, a 33-year-old man who lived as a tenant in the locality was nabbed from Bihar in connection with the crime on Sunday.The child's body was found in a makeshift tenement on Friday. The accused had been staying in the makeshift tenement since a month, the police said. The...

BHIWANDI: Two days after the decomposed body of a six-year-old girl was found dunked in a plastic bucket, with its lid on, in Bhiwandi, a 33-year-old man who lived as a tenant in the locality was nabbed from Bihar in connection with the crime on Sunday.The child's body was found in a makeshift tenement on Friday. The accused had been staying in the makeshift tenement since a month, the police said. The...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police apprehended six members of a family, who were on their way to Union home minister Amit Shah's residence on Krishna Menon Marg, on Sunday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Pranav Tayal said information was received that six members of a family were proceeding towards Krishna Menon Marg without proper authorisation. "A police team, on receiving the information, reached...

CHENNAI: With the Karnataka government refusing to release water, the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) has convened an emergency meeting on September 18.The Tamil Nadu government was informed about the meeting on Friday. “The authority’s last meeting (on August 29) was also an emergency one with a single-point agenda on sharing water,” said an official.The Cauvery Water Regulation...

NEW DELHI: Two men were arrested in connection with the robbery of Rs 1 crore from two victims in the Gulabi Bagh area of north Delhi. The victims, Suresh and his associate Rakesh, were responsible for transporting money for Kamlesh Shah, their employer.On Wednesday around 3.30pm, Shah entrusted them with Rs 1 crore to be delivered to someone in Chandni Chowk. The two individuals embarked on their...

RAIGAD: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has taken a treasury officer into custody for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 6,000 from a retired government employee in Maharashtra's Raigad district. The accused, identified as Maruti Ramchandra Pawar, is said to have solicited the bribe from the complainant, Kashibai Tukaram Mahabale, a retired health department worker aged 62. The bribe was allegedly...

Thane: The Thane ACB has arrested a senior clerk of Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (MJP) for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 from a man for registering him as a contractor with the government body.The accused has been identified as Sripat Khade (52) who is attached to the office of MJP in Thane, informed an ACB official.The complainant had approached the accused and had asked him...

NOIDA: With the arrest of eight suspects, the Noida Police on Friday said they have busted a key gang involved in the theft of cars in Delhi National Capital Region (NCR). The police recovered 10 stolen vehicles, including Toyota Fortuners and Hyundai Cretas, which had been pilfered from various locations, including Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, and Gurugram.Authorities suspect that this gang has been...

KOLKATA: A group of youths from Kolkata who used to scam Canadian nationals from a fake call centre in Lucknow were arrested on Tuesday during simultaneous raids in Lucknow and Kolkata by officers of Kolkata Police’s cyber-crime department acting on Interpol alerts sent from Canada through the National Central Bureau (NCB), India.Kolkata Police had registered a suo motu case based on enquiry into a...

CHENNAI/TRICHY: In all, 36 quacks who were running small clinics and pharmacies to provide allopathic treatment or alternative medicine to patients were arrested by police in the central region and Tiruvallur in the last one week in a joint operation with the health department.Tiruvallur district police arrested seven quacks who were running clinics and medical laboratories without the requisite licence...