KOLKATA: Director general of Indian Coast Guard Rakesh Pal visited the coast guard headquarters (north east) in West Bengal capital Kolkata on Wednesday where he was received with ceremonial 50-man Guard of Honour and was presented with an overview on Coast Guard operational and on-going Coast Guard infrastructure development projects in West Bengal and Odisha, a press statement released by ICG...
KRISHNAGIRI: Two people were killed while three others sustained injuries after a premium hatchback car in which they were travelling rammed into a truck from behind near Polupalli in Tamil Nadu's Krishnagiri district on Wednesday morning.The deceased have been identified as S Sandeep, 26, M Aman, 26, residents of Kollam in Kerala.A group of five people including the deceased and their friends J Riyaz,...
NEW DELHI: A viral video on Wednesday showed the body of a man being dragged by a car in Delhi. The person was identified as a taxi driver with residence in Haryana's Faridabad. According to ANI, the body of the male with injuries was found near the service road of NH8 on October 10. A case was registered under sections 302 and 201 of the IPC. "A probe is underway," ANI quoted Delhi Police as...
MUMBAI: In a major crackdown on ticketless travel, Central Railway (CR) conducted a fortress check at Thane and caught 3,092 passengers for unauthorised and ticketless travel on Monday. This is the highest number of cases registered in a single day on suburban network across Indian Railway. The last highest was at Andheri, where 2,693 passengers were caught and a cumulative fine of Rs 7.14 lakh was...
KALNA: A marsh crocodile (mugger) - more than 9ft long - was found roaming a neighbourhood under ward 10 of Kalna Municipality in the wee hours of Tuesday. The incident took place at Nichujapat Pal Para of Kalna in East Burdwan. The forest department managed to capture it after a four-hour operation with the help of cops and local administration.This is the second incident in the area in two weeks....
CHENNAI: Two men attacked a woman and snatched her three sovereign gold chain worth around ₹1.2 lakh when she came to dispose garbage at Melnallathur in Tiruvallur district early on Tuesday.Police said Padmavathy, 75, of Melnallathur village came out of her house when the men punched her on the back. After she collapsed on the ground, one of them snatched the chain and escaped on their bike.Though the...
NOIDA: The father of a youth accused of raping and killing his cousin in 2016 had come up with a marksheet, showing his son was born on February 10, 2000, which meant he was 16 at the time of the crime, said Arun Kumar Gupta, a member magistrate at the Juvenile Justice Board. "He told the board his son had studied till Class VIII at a school in Kanpur. His date of birth, according to that document, was...
MUMBAI: The Western Railway (WR) is planning to run two special trains, including a Vande Bharat Express, between Mumbai and Ahmedabad ahead of the India-Pakistan cricket World Cup match in Ahmedabad on October 14.This is the first time that the WR will run an inter-city train for a sports event.A fully air-conditioned train will depart from Mumbai around 10pm on October 13. "It will reach around 6am,"...
TEL AVIV: Amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, the Indian diaspora in Israel has expressed confidence in the country's military and said they want to live peacefully.A woman of Indian origin in Ashkelon, Israel, Ilana Nagaukar, told: "Yesterday, a missile struck here, vehicles caught fire and there was a power cut in all these buildings. We feel that we are in danger but we believe in our...
NAGPUR: A male flyer seated next to a 40-year-old woman travelling from Pune to Nagpur for her father's funeral allegedly masturbated and made a lewd gesture at her mid-flight, leading to his arrest after the plane landed at the city airport on Monday.Feroze Shaikh attempted to sneak away while the flyers were alighting, only to be chased by the woman he had allegedly targeted.Her screams alerted...
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