File photo of MLA Gopal Krishna Belur Shivamogga: Congress MLA Gopal Krishna Belur Tuesday issued a 15-day ultimatum to Sagar tahsildar R Pratibha to streamline taluk administration, warning that she could face transfer if operations did not improve.The confrontation unfolded during a review meeting in Sagar, where the MLA objected to the officer’s style of…
The main accused, Balraj, was killed in a police encounter on August 29 NOIDA: The main accused in the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in Greater Noida had allegedly committed two similarly horrific crimes in 2017 — the sexual assault and murder of a 70-year-old woman and the sodomising and killing of a…
Rahul Gandhi portrayed Savarkar as ‘extreme hater of Muslims’, grandnephew tells court PUNE: Satyaki Savarkar, grandnephew of Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar, told a special court in Pune on Tuesday that Savarkar “never hated Muslims” and had written about ways for their progress, while alleging that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had portrayed him as an…
Gauree.Malkarnekar@timesofindia.comPanaji: Researchers from the remote sensing laboratory at Goa University’s school of earth, ocean, and atmospheric sciences (SEOAS), led by professor Harilal Menon, have developed a mobile application to study how visible light decreases with depth and how underwater visibility changes in coastal and estuarine waters.The application, VEDA (visible-light extinction with depth analysis), was developed…
Mohali: A 35-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death at her residence in Dashmesh Nagar, Zirakpur, on Tuesday, with police suspecting her former husband of carrying out the attack. The accused allegedly stabbed the woman following an argument before fleeing the scene.The deceased has been identified as Poonam, a native of Bhiwali in Rajasthan who…
Retired Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra was appointed the first CEO of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust LUCKNOW: The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust’s first chief executive officer (CEO), Retired Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra, emerged after a nearly two-month selection process that began with 5,585 applications and involved multiple rounds of scrutiny, online…
Patna: The body of a 20-year-old man, who had gone missing on Tuesday evening, was found on the banks of the Burhi Gandak river in Nazirpur area of Muzaffarpur district on Wednesday morning.The deceased was identified as Ajay Kumar, 20, the only son of Beni Paswan, a resident of Nazirpur under Ahiyapur police station.Ajay’s family…
Jaipur: With 1,515 public charging stations installed as of Dec 2025, Rajasthan accounts for about 5% of the country’s 29,151 public charging stations.Karnataka leads with 6,096 stations, followed by Maharashtra with 4,166. Rajasthan, however, has a strategic role to play in developing intercity charging corridors, particularly along highways linking Jaipur with major cities and tourist…
Nagpur: Pathology reports bearing the signatures of a doctor who had died long ago have emerged as one of several instances cited before the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court to underline alleged illegalities in diagnostic laboratories across Maharashtra.The court was hearing a criminal public interest litigation filed by Yavatmal-based social worker Digambar Haribhau Pajgade…
Rajkot: Devbhumi Dwarka local crime branch (LCB) arrested four members of a Bihar-based gang for allegedly entering homes in rural areas on the pretext of selling phenyl and cheating women by offering to clean idols of deities and gold and silver ornaments.The accused were arrested from a rented house near Milan Char Rasta in Khambhalia…
