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ERODE: A wild elephant trampled a farmer to death in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) in Erode district of Tamil Nadu on Friday morning. The deceased has been identified as M Ramasamy, 63, of Attamokkai area in Puthu Vadavalli. Sathyamangalam forest range officer (FRO) K R Palanisamy said the farmer owned 1.5 acres of land. He used to stay in a room on his farm at night to guard the crops. On Thursday...

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police's Special Cell has arrested three people and recovered opium worth around Rs 40 crore in the international market, police said on Friday. Those arrested have been identified as Amra Ram (34), Bhana Ram Choudhary (33) and Bhalla Ram (31).The opium was smuggled from the northeastern states and was meant to supply in Delhi and other nearby states, police said.The accused — all...

MUMBAI: BEST officials on Thursday said that as the old double deckers have phased out, the target set for the year end is a minimum 100 electric AC double deckers in the fleet. This could increase daily ridership to 40lakh. Total 35 new electric AC double deckers have been procured from Switch Mobility so far, 15 of which, will soon be deployed in suburbs to cater to Bandra Kurla complex, Santacruz and...

THANE: Two armed robbers, including an externed criminal, were arrested after they sneaked inside a bar to steal cash, said the police on Thursday.A case was registered against Nagendra Maurya (30) and Manoj Gupta (23), under the relevant sections of the IPC. The duo, armed with a knife, entered the bar from its kitchen and stole Rs 4,000. The staff alerted the police, who rushed to the spot and caught...

CHENNAI: A cinema theatre, which had neither elevators nor ramps, and made a person with a disability climb the staircase to watch actor Udhayanidhi's 'Nenjukku Neethi' movie, has been asked to pay ₹1 lakh as compensation to the aggrieved person.The Thiruvallur District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum passed the order based on a complaint from S Sureshkumar of Kundrathur. He complained that he went...

NEW DELHI: Close to one lakh Delhi University students will vote to choose their union on Friday after a three-year break that started because of the Covid-19 lockdown.The election is returning to the campus after 2019 with intense campaigns by students' organisations. As the university prepared for the election, on Thursday the varsity became a fortress with heavy security. DU officials held meetings...

MUMBAI: The state has confirmed 16 cases of scrub typhus, a bacterial disease spread by infected mite bites, in three districts: Aurangabad, Jalna, and Buldhana. With several states in India grappling with an outbreak of this disease, the Maharashtra public health department has alerted all districts to increase surveillance.Officials say most cases have been identified and treated at Dr Hedgewar...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Thursday announced compensation of Rs 560 crore to six lakh farmers affected by natural disasters like drought, flood, cyclone and unseasonal rains under the crop insurance scheme during last fiscal.The crop insurance scheme is implemented in 14 clusters comprising 37 districts by the identified insurance companies. “An area of 24.45 lakh acres was...

THANE: The Navi Mumbai police in Maharashtra registered a case against a man for sexually harassing a 15-year-old girl after befriending her on social media, an official said on Thursday. Between November 2022 and June 2023, accused Altaf Sheikh first allegedly coaxed the minor to share a few semi-nude photos of her with him. He then demanded more such pictures threatening to make the earlier one viral...

BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced to have expelled two BJD MLAs — Soumya Ranjan Patnaik and Sudhansu Sekhar Parida — from the party. A party statement later cited their involvement in anti-people activities as reasons behind the action.The BJD said a media organization run by Soumya faces serious cases of organized bank fraud involving loans worth crores of rupees in...