CCTV footage showed a former vice-chancellor near the gate as a mob entered the campus KOLKATA: Students and faculty members at Jadavpur University (JU) pointed fingers at their ‘own’ who helped ‘outsiders’ to enter the campus and unleash violence and vandalism in the early hours of Thursday and demanded to bring them under the investigation…
According to the prosecution, the victim, Rani, had moved back to her parental home three months prior to the incident due to marital harassment and was working at a supermarket chain on Ferozepur Road. Ludhiana: A local court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment and imposed a ₹50,000 fine for the murder of his…
Sesappa from Navoor in Bantwal at work Mangaluru: For Sesappa,45, a sanitation worker from Navoor in Bantwal, owning a car had been a long-standing dream. Today, after years of hard work, additional jobs and loans, he drives a second-hand Toyota Fortuner.Sesappa began working in 1996 for a daily wage of Rs 50. A class 3…
Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy Hassan: Union minister HD Kumaraswamy charged chief minister DK Shivakumar and the state govt over the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise Road (NICE) project, alleging large-scale irregularities in land acquisition, toll collection and implementation.Addressing a press conference at his native Hardanahalli in Holenarsipur taluk, Kumaraswamy said the framework agreement for the project…
A man allegedly killed his wife and elder daughter in Ghaziabad on Friday night GHAZIABAD: A 47-year-old man allegedly slit the throats of his wife and 16-year-old daughter at their fourth-floor flat in Lokpriya Vihar of Khoda on Friday night after the wife repeatedly urged him to take his depression medication.He also attacked their younger…
Rahul Gandhi addressed women students, criticizing a patriarchal mindset and Prime Minister Modi’s reaction PUNE: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at what he described as a patriarchal mindset, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “culturally shocked” when girls used cuss words during a protest, while having no…
Years of encroachments, inadequate infrastructure and neglected safety SOPs have created catastrophic conditions at the twin municipal markets Margao: The twin municipal markets of Margao — the New Municipal Market and Gandhi Market — house more than a thousand traders packed into every available inch of space. Their inventory spans cosmetics and chemicals, foam and…
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s wife, Gurpreet Kaur, on Saturday sent a legal notice to former Punjab and Haryana high court judge Ranjit Singh CHANDIGARH: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to Punjab govt and its police chief over a complaint alleging that CM Bhagwant Mann’s wife Gurpreet Kaur sought Rs 5…
Divya Mishra, Manas Bajpai LUCKNOW: He had just witnessed a woman being shot when the man who pulled the trigger hopped into his autorickshaw. Before the driver could understand what had happened, two firearms were pressed against his head.“Take me home immediately, or I’ll blow your head off,” accused Manas Bajpai, a field officer in…
Patna: A 55-year-old resident of Patna was allegedly duped of Rs 1.19 crore by cyber fraudsters who lured him into investing through a fake online trading platform promising high returns from shares, gold and foreign currency trading.The victim, a resident of Jagdeo Path under Rupaspur police station area, came in contact with the fraudsters while…
