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Kolkata B-school rape probe hits wall as ‘survivor’, her advocate father won’t speak KOLKATA: A forensic team collected Sunday soft drink and water bottles, two types of hair strands, and other samples from a sealed hostel room in a premier Kolkata management institute, where a 24-year-old psychologist accused a student of drugging and raping her…
NEW DELHI: In a special message read out at a day-long conference organised here to mark his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama said “we Tibetans” are deeply indebted to the govt and people of India for the warm hospitality they have shown since 1959, even as he indirectly questioned China’s claim over Tibet.The Tibetan spiritual…
NEW DELHI: Excessive salt consumption is fuelling a silent epidemic in India with people at increased risk of hypertension, stroke, heart disease, and kidney disorders, according to scientists from ICMR’s National Institute of Epidemiology.The scientists have initiated a community-led salt reduction study to address the issue and are focusing on low-sodium salt substitutes.While the World…
Mumbai: The heirs of Partition, who were displaced from their homes for a second time, are finally experiencing a modicum of relief. Residents of 19 Mhada buildings in GTB Nagar near Sion, which were declared dilapidated and demolished by BMC in 2020, see a ray of hope with the sanction of the redevelopment proposal. These…
File photo: Sadanandan Master, who lost both legs in political violence, got nominated to Rajya Sabha NEW DELHI: It was May 2016. Speaking at a rally in Kasaragod, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held up the hand of C Sadanandan Master as he lamented the silence imposed on the story of the victim of barbaric poll…
Horrific tales of the next of kin who were given jobs emerged, ironically, on a date opposition parties in the UT want designated ‘Martyrs’ Day’ (Picture credit: ANI) BARAMULLA: As the J&K government dismantles the terror ecosystem by going after terrorists and overground workers (OGWs), it has embarked on a parallel journey to honour, compensate…
Nawada BLO conducts door-to-door distribution of enumeration forms and collection of filled forms PATNA: Bihar’s ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls has unearthed an unspecified number of illegal immigrants from Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar residing in the state and aiming to become voters with Aadhaar, ration cards and domicile certificates acquired through fraud, Election…
Representative image (Picture credit: PTI) JAMMU: A fresh batch comprising 7,049 pilgrims left for Shri Amarnath Yatra amid religious chants on Sunday morning from Bhagwati Nagar in the city. The holy cave shrine is situated in the Himalayas in south Kashmir.“The pilgrims left for Shri Amarnath cave shrine from Jammu base camp in a fleet…
Representative image (AP) NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A day after Airline Pilots’ Association of India said Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s (AAIB) preliminary report on the Air India 171 crash led to the promoting of a “presumption of pilot guilt” even before the probe was complete, Indian Commercial Pilots’ Association (ICPA), one of the Air India pilots’ unions,…
Pune: A 29-year-old Vashi resident has been arrested by Pimpri Chinchwad police in connection with cheating and blackmailing people via fake loan apps, which he allegedly executed on instructions of handlers based in Singapore. The arrest throws open a pan-India loan fraud scam.Accused Isaki Thevar, a loan recovery agent, has been duping people through at…
