Four men in their early 20s have been arrested for allegedly raping a 19-year-old woman in a moving car on the night of March 25, travelling from the heart of the city to the outskirts undetected.
TOI found 3 more stepwells in a 1km radius of the tragedy site and they too have been covered with iron grille and have structures, including a temple, around them. In 1970, there were records of 1,400 wells in Indore.
Twenty-one of those killed were women. There were three children among the dead, including a one-and-a-half-year-old boy whose parents could only watch in horror as he plunged into the well just inches away from them. His body was among the last to be found as the dead were stacked on top of each other in the 50-foot-deep well.
The CBI has busted an alleged "cash-for-treatment" racket operating at Safdarjung Hospital and arrested a senior neurosurgeon, besides a south Delhi businessman and three middlemen, for malpractices and corruption, reports Rajshekhar Jha. The accused doctor, Manish Rawat, is posted as an associate professor in the department of neurosurgery at the hospital and is a resident of Lodhi Colony.
A video showing BJP MLA from Bagbasa (North Tripura) Jadablal Nath watching purported porn clips on a mobile phone in the assembly went viral Wednesday night. The MLA said the video started playing on its own.
The land holdings of some 727 Bengali Hindu refugees in three rehab camps in Raichur district, Karnataka, in 1971 — carrying thesurname ‘Sarkar’ — have been marked government or ‘sarkari’ land, in a bungle over the surname.
A day after daring the Punjab police to arrest him, radical preacher Amritpal Singh surfaced in a fresh video on Thursday, asserting he was not a fugitive and would soon appear before the world. The purported video surfaced hours after his audio clip came out on social media in which he debunked speculation he was negotiating his surrender. “Those who feel that I have turned fugitive and I have left my associates, they should not keep this illusion in their mind. I do not fear death,” he said in the video in Punjabi.
Misuse of money power is one of the key challenges in Karnataka, CEC Rajiv Kumar said while announcing the poll schedule. In all, cash, liquor, goods and drugs worth Rs 57.7 crore have been seized in the past month in Karnataka. This time, 4,880 enforcement teams will be at work, against 4,147 in 2018.
"Is the state impotent? Can't it take timely action against hate speech mongers? If it can't take, why do we have a state at all?" These posers came from the Supreme Court Wednesday on a petition seeking contempt proceedings against Maharashtra for inaction against hate speeches by Hindu organisations despite undertaking to prevent it.
Two months after the order of the Kerala high court's January 25 order staying P P Mohammad Faizal's conviction, the Lok Sabha secretariat restored the membership of the disqualified Lakshadweep MP (of NCP) - just hours before the Supreme Court was set to take up his petition against the delay.
The August 2022 order by NGT was in an application filed by a south Mumbai resident Dileep Nevatia who had sought orders to direct the government and civic administration to “maintain air and noise quality level for construction of the Coastal Road (South) project within limits’’ specified under the Noise Pollution rules.
As many as 36%-40% of officers who retire every year get disability pension, which is much higher than the normal one, while only 15%-18% of the jawans get it. Moreover, the percentage of medical officers retiring with disability pension is "significantly higher" at 44-58% as compared to other officers in the 12-lakh Army.
Respect for the rule of law and judicial independence is the cornerstone of any democracy, the US has said, adding that it is watching Rahul Gandhi's court case that resulted in his disqualification from the Lok Sabha.
Citing a media report, Pasha said despite the SC's February 3 order directing the Maharashtra police to take action against a Hindu organisation indulging in hate speech and calling for boycott of Mulsims, as many as 50 rallies have been organised in the last four months across the state.
The petitioner, MP leader of the opposition Govind Singh, alleged that the unbridled power given to the agency was being misused to silence opposition leaders across the country.
An agitation by members of the Banjara and Bhovi communities against the internal reservation for the Scheduled Castes announced by the state government last week turned violent Monday as they targeted the residence of former CM BS Yediyurappa in his hometown Shikaripur, about 50 km from Shivamogga.
The government is all set to allow drug companies an increase in line with the change in the annual Wholesale Price Index (WPI). The annual change in WPI, as notified by the government, works out to 12.12% during 2022, the drug prices regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) said on Monday.
After a year-long lull, Covid-19 wards are opening in some private hospitals with a handful of admissions trickling in daily. While some have increased their masking and testing protocols in response to the surge in cases, others remain on standby. On Sunday, active cases in the state went past 2,000 for the first time since October.
He said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance of three parties - Sena (UBT), Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - was formed to protect democracy and it was necessary to work unitedly for it. Addressing a rally in the Muslim-dominated textile town of Malegaon in Nashik district of north Maharashtra, Thackeray also said that deliberate attempts were on to provoke Rahul Gandhi.
Even before Rahul Gandhi could challenge his conviction and two-year sentence in a criminal defamation case as well as the resultant disqualification as member of Parliament, a social activist from Kerala moved Supreme Court, seeking to restrict disqualification of MPs and MLAs to conviction in serious and heinous offences.
PM Narendra Modi hit out at political opponents on Saturday for "playing games over languages" that had consequently deprived rural and poor children of quality higher education over the past years, while asserting that kids can now learn in their mother tongue because of his government's policy push for native languages in schools and colleges.
While the fines collected through e-challans by the traffic and transport rule enforcement agencies across states have increased 450% in the past three-and-a-half years since the penalties were hiked, there has been barely 3% decline in road deaths during this period. Experts said better and scientific enforcement of rules is key to reducing road crashes and fatalities rather than focusing on slapping challans and fines.
Covid-19 claimed three lives in neighbouring Thane even as 343 people tested positive for the viral infection across Maharashtra, said the state Covid update on Friday. While zero Covid deaths were reported in February, the number of Covid-19 deaths in the state in March has now risen to 13.
The Supreme Court Friday granted pre-arrest bail to a number of missionaries and Christian charitable organisation workers who were booked by UP police under the anti-conversion law on the charge of converting people to Christianity with allurements.
Rahul Gandhi was on Friday disqualified as an MP from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in compliance with the Surat trial court order, which had on Thursday convicted him in a criminal defamation case and sentenced him to two years, in a development which escalated BJP's confronation with Congress and widened its arc with many others in the opposition rallying for the Congress leader.
The Congress on Friday accused the government of acting with "lightning speed" in disqualifying Rahul Gandhi, saying it amounts to "strangulation of democracy" and alleging that the ruling dispensation is coming out with new techniques to "gag" him.The party leadership got into a huddle soon after the disqualification was announced by the Lok Sabha Secretariat and decided to fight it legally and politically and launch a countrywide "Jan Andolan" starting Monday.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal lashed out at PM Modi on Thursday, saying that even the British did not register FIRs for pasting posters. He said such things didn’t suit the PM’s stature. He was referring to Delhi Police arresting some people for allegedly putting up posters against Modi in the capital. The reason for the arrests was not publishing the names of the printing press on the posters.
In supplementary chargesheet filed in a bank fraud case related to absconding businessman Vijay Mallya, the CBI has named Buddhadev Dasgupta, the then general manager of IDBI Bank, as an accused and alleged that he manipulated the records to help now defunct Kingfisher Airlines to avail Rs 150 crore loan. The CBI said Mallya spent a part of the funds on his luxurious lifestyle and he didn’t repay the loan despite having adequate money.
The extra barricades and security set-up deployed outside the British high commission as well as the residence of Alex Ellis, the UK’s high commissioner to India, were removed on Wednesday in what appeared to be a response to British authorities failing to prevent vandalisation of the Indian high commission by Khalistan supporters in London on Sunday.
Amid the face-off between the judiciary and the Centre on the collegium system of appointment of judges and on names recommended for judgeship, the Supreme Court collegium has told the Centre that names sent by it earlier “ought not to be withheld or overlooked” while recommendations later are acted upon, indicating that the government should not pick and choose names from the list.
Rajasthan on Tuesday passed a landmark Right to Health (RTH) Bill under which private hospitals will not be able to charge emergency patients and will be compensated by the state — a “controversial” provision according to such hospitals and doctors who continued protests against the move for the second day and were later joined by government doctors.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed shock over some trial courts not complying with its July 2022 order to be liberal and grant bail to accused in cases when custody is not needed. Asking the courts not to pass detention orders in a routine and mechanical way and thus deny liberty to the accused, the SC said such judges needed to be sent to academies for “upgrading their knowledge”.
India needs to develop “both offensive and defensive space capabilities to safeguard our assets”, Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari said on Tuesday, in the backdrop of China furiously building and deploying anti-satellite weapons from direct ascent missiles and co-orbital killers to directed-energy laser weapons and electronic jammers.
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