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MUMBAI: Western Railway continued its drive against without ticket travelers by carrying out a fortress check at Borivali station in Mumbai, where 4,166 ticketless were fined in a single day on October 11.This is the highest ever single-day record of without ticket cases, beating the previous record of CR’s Thane’s station where 3,092 people were caught and a fine of more than Rs 8.6 lakh recovered...

NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Thursday said that the first charter flight will be reaching Tel Aviv later tonight to pick up Indians and is likely to return to India tomorrow morning.The MEA in a briefing said that Operation Ajay has been launched to bring back Indians from Israel adding that it hasn’t heard of any Indian casualty so far."A charter flight will reach Tel Aviv today...

Kolkata: The initial post-mortem report of Sikha Mukherjee (70) found dead in a decomposed condition inside a locked room at her residence at Madan Dutta Lane in Bowbazar, shows that death was possibly due to an injury that she received on her head. The cops, thus, are likely to initiate a case under the murder section.Police said they are looking into the role of the son, Abhishek Mukherjee (39) who...

CHENNAI: The Chengalpet taluk police opened fire on a history-sheeter when he tried to escape from their custody in the early hours of Thursday. The incident happened at Mamandur in Kancheepuram district.The history-sheeter, identified as P Thanikachalam, 36, of Mariyamman Koil Street in Tiruvallur district, suffered injuries on a knee and the right arm.Thanikachalam was an A-plus category rowdy at...

NEW DELHI: A potentially dangerous incident was averted near the Pragati Maidan area of New Delhi when police arrested two members of the Arsh Dalla gang. One of them was about to use a live hand grenade, and the other had already fired a shot at the police before being stopped.The encounter took place on Outer Ring Road near Pragati Maidan in the early hours of Thursday, where a police team comprising...

MUMBAI: State transport commissioner Vivek Bhimanwar said that the state plans to reduce fatalities by 50% much before the Centre's deadline of 2030. He announced that the motor vehicle department in Maharashtra was now conferred with the SKOCH award for 'Multi-sectoral road safety improvement strategy'.The award has been conferred in recognition of the road safety measures undertaken in the past year....

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday offered prayers at Parvati Kund in Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh. Dressed in local traditional attire, he also played a power drum and conch shell while offering prayers at the spiritually significant Parvati Kund.The Prime Minister will have darshan of the Adi Kailash peak, an abode of Lord Shiva. He is on a day-long visit to Uttarakhand's Kumaon region...

PALGHAR: At least four Bangladeshi nationals were arrested for allegedly cheating people under the pretext of selling foreign currencies at a discount in the city. They handed them blank papers resembling banknotes, police said on Wednesday. The accused, including two women, are found to be living in India without valid documents, senior police inspector (crime branch) Pramod Badakh said. !(function(f,...

KOLKATA: The Indian embassy in Israel assured Indians in the war-torn country of their "safety and security" even as youngsters from Bengal studying there looked for ways to return home at the earliest. The assurance from the ministry of external affairs seemed to have little effect on the students and research scholars, who were worried over uncertain flights from Tel Aviv to Delhi. The X handle of Air...

TRICHY: Around one lakh shops and commercial establishments remained closed in the delta districts on Wednesday following a total shutdown announced by the Cauvery Delta Protection Movement protesting against the Karnataka government's failure to adhere to the orders of the Cauvery Water Management Authority and Supreme Court to release water for irrigation in the Cauvery river.However, government and...