NOIDA: UP govt on Monday removed Lokesh M as CEO of Noida Authority and formed an SIT to inquire into the death of software engineer Yuvraj Mehta, who drowned Friday night after his car plunged into a waterlogged trench at a commercial site in Sector 150. The action followed CM Yogi Adityanath taking “serious cognisance”…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The special investigation team probing the Sabarimala gold scam arrested Friday Kandararu Rajeevaru, the tantri (chief priest) of the Ayyappa temple, after detaining and questioning him earlier in the day.Rajeevaru was arrested for his alleged close links with prime accused Unnikrishnan Potti and for giving “silent permission” to the replating of the dwarapalaka (guardian)…
CHANDRAPUR: The SIT probing illegal sale of a farmer’s kidney in Chandrapur, Maharashtra, has uncovered a direct operational link to China. Fresh disclosures indicate that a Chinese surgeon, Dr Chiang, conducted transplant procedures in Cambodia and supplied harvested organs to clients in his home country.The revelations, based on statements of two key accus-ed during interrogation,…
MOHALI: CBI has filed a chargesheet in a Mohali court against four Punjab Police personnel in connection with the assault on Colonel Pushpinder Bath, naming an inspector as the prime accused.The central agency has dropped charges of attempted murder and instead invoked charges for ‘causing grievous hurt’ and ‘wrongful restraint’. The chargesheet names inspector Ronnie…
Argentine footballer Lionel Messi with West Bengal (now resigned) sports minister Aroop Biswas, during an event as part of his ‘G.O.A.T. India Tour 2025’, at Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK), in Kolkata. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Satadru Dutta, the main organiser of Lionel Messi’s event held on December 13 and now under arrest, has told…
Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs staged a dramatic overnight protest at the Parliament complex, expressing vehement opposition to the newly passed VB-G RAM G Bill. The Bill, replacing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), was pushed through with little debate, according to the TMC. VB-G RAM G Bill on rural employment introduced in…
NEW DELHI: The Maharashtra govt has approached Supreme Court for a review of its direction for setting up of a special investigation team (SIT) “comprising senior police officials from both Hindu and Muslim communities” to probe two Akola riot-related offences – a murder and an assault – and said dividing the uniformed force on religious…