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FARIDABAD: An 18-year-old class 12 student was stabbed to death while he was sleeping in his house in Sanjay colony in Haryana’s Faridabad, police said on Tuesday. Hearing him scream, the younger brother of the victim woke up and tried to chase the assailant but lost him, PTI quoted police as saying.According to a complaint filed by the victim's father, Santosh Bhagat, Vishal, his elder son, was...

MUMBAI: Mumbai Airport on Tuesday said both its runways will remain temporarily closed for operations for five hours on May 2 as part of the facility's monsoon contingency plan. The scheduled temporary runway closure is an annual exercise and a contingency plan on the same will help maintain operational continuity and ensure passengers' safety, PTI quoted the private airport operator as saying in a...

PARIS: Lionel Messi is "much more likely" to leave Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season than sign a new deal, a source close to the club told AFP on Tuesday."The dynamics have completely changed with PSG less pushing to renew (his contract)," the source said, adding that there was "no deal, no exit yet. But exit is much more likely."Messi, who will turn 36 in June, joined in 2021 on a two-year...

PALGHAR: Police in Palghar district averted potential mob violence against two 'sadhus' (ascetics) in a village after the residents mistook them as child lifters, nearly three years after three persons were lynched in the district over similar suspicion, an official said on Tuesday. Palghar rural superintendent of police Balasaheb Patil said two men were spotted at Chandranagar village, within the...

KOLKATA: Bengal is getting three more Vande Bharat trains — Howrah-Puri, Howrah-Ranchi and Howrah-Patna. Talks are on for a fourth — Howrah-Varanasi, too.The Howrah-New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat, flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 30 last year, will be followed by at least three more, Eastern Railway general manager Arun Arora while speaking on ER’s “superlative performance in...

CHENNAI: Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) officials conducted a vision survey campaign at Marina and Besant Nagar beaches on Monday to encourage participation of residents in the transformation of Chennai into a modern, progressive, inclusive and global city.The CMDA is preparing the Vision Document for Third Master Plan (2026-2046) for Chennai Metropolitan Area covering 1189 sq km. The...

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Tuesday apprehended Delhi's one of the most-wanted gangsters, Deepak Boxer, in Mexico. It is suspected by the police that Boxer may have flown to Mexico either in December 2022 or January this year.Here's all you need to know about the gangster:Boxer, 27, is a resident of Gannaur in Haryana.The gangster carried a cash reward of Rs 3 lakh by Delhi Police.Boxer came to limelight...

MUMBAI: Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s famous 2011 World Cup-winning six, etched in the memory of all Indian cricket fans, is set to find its permanent place in the Wankhede Stadium.At a meeting of its Apex Council on Monday, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) decided to make a ‘memorial’ at the spot in the stands behind long-on, where the ball fell after Dhoni hit Sri Lankan pacer Nuwan Kulasekara for...

THANE: A decade after Adarsh Tower inside Lucky Compound in Shil-Daighar near Mumbra crashed like a pack of cards, claiming 74 lives and maiming 62 others on April 4, 2013, trial in the unauthorised construction is moving at a snail's pace with only 56 of the over 400 witnesses being examined so far. For those who survived, getting justice seems to be taking longer than expected. The prosecution,...

KOLKATA: A 28-year-old man was arrested for allegedly murdering a 16-year-old girl who had gone missing from her Kolkata Leather Complex area home on March 25 and whose body was found a week ago. The accused, Tufan Pramanik, is a cycle shop owner and had been hiding in the Dhapa landfill site for the past 60 hours.Pramanik was picked up from Khanaberia Sarderpara on Monday. "He was trying to get a job...