Any failure on the part of the convict to pay the fine, Faiz Rasheed, a resident of Bengaluru’s Kacharakanahalli, will result in six more months of imprisonment, said Judge CM Gangadhara of the special court for National Investigation Agency and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) cases.
The Dera chief has significantly increased his online activity during his latest parole, his third this year. There have been a few incidents of Dera’s followers sent to invite people for gatherings being confronted by Sikhs. These indicate that things could take a turn for the worse in the state.
Police constable Elioda Gumizamu, 21, from the Field Force Unit (FFU) has been charged with murder after he was apprehended and handed over to the police on October 27 while he was trying to flee the scene of the crime, The Daily Monitor newspaper reported.
Government hospitals in the town treated 56 people, of whom 15 are still to be discharged. Till late afternoon, people were spotted dashing in and out of hospitals with pictures of loved ones in the hope of either finding them alive.
Claiming a 12 times jump in loans on digital platforms between 2017 and 2020 and occurrence of 52 suicides due to blackmailing by these loan apps, Congress sought to know what the Narendra Modi government was doing to curb these practices.
The call for a CBI probe gained traction after Telangana police recently arrested three people for allegedly trying to bribe four TRS MLAs with Rs 100 crore each for defecting to BJP ahead of the high-stakes Munugode bypolls. Dismissing the charges, BJP functionaries moved the Telangana high court and requested a CBI inquiry.
Morbi MLA and minister of state Brijesh Merja confirmed 60-odd deaths as the prospect of finding survivors appeared to dim around 10.30pm, almost four hours after the bridge came down in a cacophony of snapping iron cables and horrified screams. Officials said the tragedy occurred between 6.30 and 7pm.
“We are committed to taking benefits of development equally to all sections and citizens,” PM Modi said, referring to a record increase in the number of tourists visiting J&K, which he attributed to infrastructure development and increased connectivity in recent times.
Sam Santhosh, the brain behind the project, is a US-based Malayali entrepreneur from Thrissur. Since 2016, his team has collected and planted 678 of the 742 plant species (of which three are repetitions) mentioned in the book. The search for the remaining 61 plants might take another two years, he said.
Passing first such order against any probe agency, a bench of Justices MR Shah and MM Sundresh criticised ED for appealing a year-old Allahabad HC order granting bail to Kamal Ahsan, an ex-Axis Bank official accused of siphoning out over Rs 22 crore and who was booked under PMLA by ED.
In a rejoinder affidavit, the ED said that transfer of trial was needed as high-profile persons, including the former principal secretary of the CM, were involved and they were trying to influence the accused and witnesses.
The hypothesis they are going by is that Mubin was radicalised after being exposed to IS literature, but hadn’t received training in terrorist tactics. Whatever he knew about handling explosives was by reading material available on the internet about bomb-making.
Cautioning states and UTs of emerging threats, including cyberattacks, from inimical forces as India marches ahead on the path of economic growth and competes with global powers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told their law enforcement agencies to anticipate and understand the challenges that may stem from a sense of global competition but eventually turn into enmity.
At the party function where Kharge was inaugurated as the Congress president, the first non-Gandhi chief in 24 years, AICC passed a resolution showering praises on Sonia for her contributions - lifting the party in bad times and for giving the country a leadership that resulted in landmark decisions on social welfare and ushered in systemic transparency during the UPA governments.
The six senior IPS officers directed to be transferred by EC are currently posted in Ahmedabad city or Surat. The ones from Ahmedabad police commissionerate are additional commissioner of police (ACP) (crime) Premvir Sinh; ACP (traffic) A G Chauhan; deputy commissioner of police (DCP) (control room) Harshad Patel; DCP, Zone IV Mukesh Patel; and DCP (traffic) Bhakti Thakar. Only one IPS officer sought to be transferred is from Surat police commissionerate — DCP (crime) Rupal Solanki.
In a letter sent to the CM on Tuesday, the governor quoted news reports on Balagopal’s speech on October 18 on the Kariavattom university campus, where he said those coming from states like UP may not be able to understand the democratic functioning of universities in Kerala. He also said the vice chancellor of Banaras Hindu University was functioning with “50 to 100 security guards” when he visited the university as an MP.
A hub for fireworks manufacturers, Virudhunagar contributes to nearly 90% of the country's production. There are over 1,000 fireworks units in the district and nearly eight lakh employees are directly and indirectly dependent on this industry for their livelihood.
Shukla, an IPS officer of the 1988 batch, is currently posted as additional director general of Central Reserve Police Force in Hyderabad. She is the most senior IPS officer in the state after DG Hemant Nagrale, who is retiring on October 31. She is senior to IPS officer Rajnish Seth, the state DGP. Shukla retires in June 2024.
CCTV camera footage purportedly shows deceased Jameesha Mubin, whom the NIA had interrogated in 2019, and three of the arrested IS suspects placing two LPG cylinders and three drums filled with “light explosives” in the car around 11.30pm on Saturday, Coimbatore police commissioner V Balakrishnan said.
Coimbatore police arrested five people after a 29-year-old man was killed in a car explosion in front of a temple in the city on Sunday. While cops said the blast was possibly triggered by an LPG cylinder, a search at the residence of the deceased, led to the detection of a huge quantum of explosives.
A red alert was sounded across Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura on Monday in view of the impending Cyclone Sitrang. It is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm, the IMD said.
The MHA has cancelled the foreign funding licences of two trusts linked to the Gandhi family - Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (RGCT) - citing violations of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010.
Covid infections caused by Omicron’s newly identified XBB strain have nearly doubled in the past week in India, experts said on Sunday
Taking a dig at the opposition parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Sunday that there was time when the very existence of Lord Ram would be questioned, leading to religious and cultural backwardness. With the lighting of 15.76 lakh earten lamps, Ayodhya Deepotsava set another Guinness record.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) successfully placed 36 OneWeb satellites, meant to offer global internet service, using its heaviest rocket - Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3 or GSLV Mk-3) - for the first time past midnight on Sunday in a 1.5-hour long launch.
The Indian Army aviation wing’s advanced light helicopter had sent a “Mayday” distress call to air traffic control, suggesting a technical snag, before crashing in the Migging area of Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Siang on Friday morning. All five army personnel on board were killed when the helicopter went down, including two Majors.
Fifteen migrant workers died while 40 others were injured, many of them critically, when the bus they were travelling in crashed into a truck on a ghat road in MP's Rewa district late Friday. From Hyderabad, the workers were heading home to UP's Gorakhpur - a 1,500km journey - for Diwali.
A school in Hyderabad's upscale Banjara Hills where a four-year-old girl was allegedly sexually abused by the principal's driver will lose its licence and its 500-odd students will be transferred to other schools.
Four defence personnel were killed and one was reported missing after a Dhruv advanced light helicopter of the Army crashed early on Friday in a remote area of Upper Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, making it the second air disaster in the northeastern frontier state in less than three weeks and the 12th in 14 years.
Srinagar's agricultural university has welcomed Swiss Saanen goats, sparking immense interest for their high milk yield with less feed. ...
