PATNA: A gang operated a fake police station from a hotel in Bihar for eight months where they dressed up as officers and are believed to have extorted money from hundreds of people, an official said Thursday. The gang set up shop barely 500 metres from the home of the actual local police chief and … Read more
LUDHIANA: A city-based yarn manufacturing group has built the new building of Government Primary Smart School Singhpura. The building was inaugurated on Thursday by Rajya Sabha MP and industrialist Sanjeev Arora. Arora announced that he would accept the demand of the school staff to arrange the required infrastructure. Arora said, “This is a noble initiative … Read more
VADODARA: The uproar over the release of 11 men sentenced to life for gang rape and murder in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case spawned a new controversy on Thursday after former Union minister P Chidambaram of Congress and some others flagged the composition of the remission committee that apparently included two BJP MLAs of Gujarat. … Read more
ERODE: Erode district collector H Krishnanunni on Wednesday evening issued an order to detain the four accused in the illegal oocyte sale case under the Goondas Act. The order copies were served on the accused, who were lodged in the Coimbatore Central Prison, on Thursday. The Erode South police had earlier arrested Indirani alias Sumaiya, … Read more
JAMMU: A jailed Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist was fatally shot on Wednesday when he tried to flee after snatching the rifle of a policeman from a spot near the international border (IB) where he was taken to in connection with recovery of drone-dropped weapons. Jammu zone ADGP Mukesh Singh said a policeman was also injured … Read more
Bollywood actor and comedian Rajpal Yadav has sent his best wishes to Raju Srivastava, who is admitted to the intensive care unit at AIIMS, New Delhi. Rajpal took to his Instagram handle and posted a video in which he was heard saying that he is eagerly waiting for him to meet up after he gets … Read more
SRINAGAR: A Pakistan-sponsored online mouthpiece for the Lashkar-backed terror outfit TRF on Thursday warned of a more intense wave of attacks targeting “migrant Pandits” and other “non-locals” in J&K, ostensibly in response to the chief electoral officer’s estimate that the ongoing summary revision of rolls could see the addition of up to 25 lakh new … Read more
YAMUNANAGAR: The police have registered a case of fraud of about 87,361 metric tonne (MT) of “illegally mined” raw minerals on Wednesday, after an owner of a screening plant detected the same. The owner had given his screening plant on lease to two firms, and the lessee allegedly showed fake purchase of 87,361 MT raw … Read more
Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday asked telecom service providers to gear up for the 5G launch post the issuance of spectrum allocation letters. In a first, the Department of Telecom (DoT) issued spectrum assignment letters on the same day the successful bidders of radio waves made upfront payments. “5G Update: Spectrum assignment letter issued. … Read more
13 years ago, Mawlawi Mahdi Mujahid embraced the Taliban.(File) Kabul: Mawlawi Mahdi Mujahid, a disgruntled Taliban commander, was killed by Taliban border forces when he wanted to enter Iran through the province of Herat in western Afghanistan, media reports said citing a statement from the Taliban’s Ministry of Defense. This comes as tensions have been … Read more
