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KOLKATA: Citing a forensic report that found no evidence of struggle at the spot where the body of rape and murder victim RG Kar was found, the lawyer representing Sanjay Roy, the civic volunteer arrested in the case, raised questions about the scene where the crime occurred, during arguments in a Sealdah court on Saturday.Roy,…
The year was 1982. A fight broke out in the dining room of the Guruvayur temple complex when those serving free special meals manhandled a person who refused to remove his upper garment. They demanded to know whether the person sitting among the shirtless men wearing the sacred thread was a Brahmin or not. Because…
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: An additional sessions judge’s court in Nanded on Saturday acquitted nine accused of the 2006 bomb blast at a house in Patbandhare Nagar in Nanded that killed two people and left four injured.Two of the total 12 accused in the case died in the explosion that occurred during the night of April 4…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hailed rising rural consumption, citing the recent household consumption expenditure survey, and a fall in poverty as highlighted in an SBI study released a day earlier.The consumer expenditure survey showed that rural households are diversifying their spending and spending more on non-food items. “Our vision is to…
NEW DELHI: Flights were cancelled, trains were late and road traffic over the weekend was slow as the national capital was engulfed in thick fog that blinded it for up to 12 hours from Friday night to Saturday. the morning. This occurred in a context of cold and polluted climate. The Met has issued a…
NEW DELHI: A few days before the Delhi assembly elections are to be announced, and amid a blitzkrieg unleashed against the ruling AAP, the BJP finally released its much-awaited first list of candidates on Saturday. It has 29 names, including four sitting legislators, two former MPs and eight former MLAs.The biggest names on the first…
NEW DELHI: India has slightly increased its vigilance following reports of rising cases of respiratory diseases in china even as it has asked the World Health Organization to share timely updates on the situation in China.According to the Health Ministry, a meeting of the Joint Monitoring Group was held on Saturday under the chairmanship of…
MUMBAI: Bank of Baroda reported provisional figures as of December 31, 2024, showing substantial growth in retail lending, helping the bank achieve an 11.7% year-on-year rise in global business to Rs 25.6 lakh crore.The bank’s global advances rose 11.7% to Rs 11.7 lakh crore in December 2024, while global deposits grew 11.8% to around Rs…
NEW DELHI: Veteran Indian nuclear scientist dr Rajagopala Chidambaramwho was the architect of ‘Operation Laughing Buddha‘ (India’s first nuclear test at Pokhran in 1974) and ‘Operation Shakti‘ (1998 nuclear tests), died on Saturday in Mumbai at the age of 88. Born in the erstwhile province of Madras in 1936, Chidambaram, an alumnus of Presidency College,…
NEW DELHI: A court in Nanded in central Maharashtra on Saturday acquitted the nine surviving accused in a 2006 blast case, with a defense lawyer claiming the prosecution had failed to prove the incident was a bomb blast. .The detailed ruling has not yet been published. Of the 12 defendants in the case, two died…