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In a significant legal development, a Delhi court has officially charged RJD chief Lalu Prasad, along with his family and 41 others, in connection with the railway land-for-jobs scandal. The ruling NDA coalition, comprising the BJP and JD(U), has ramped up its criticism, labeling the actions of Lalu’s family as a ‘criminal enterprise. PATNA: The…
SSB jawans conducting last rites of the woman Pithoragarh: When Jhupa Devi passed away at 100 in Tadegaon, a remote hamlet in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district, on Wednesday, only three able-bodied men — her son Ramesh Chand, grandson Ravi Chand and another villager — were at hand to carry her to the cremation ground, situated around…
With over 200 people from the area admitted in as many as 27 hospitals across Indore, lanes of Bhagirathpura are empty INDORE: A deathly silence prevails in Bhagirathpura area of Indore. Barring a few people at makeshift medical camps, its lanes are empty. With over 200 people from the area admitted in as many as…
Bengal SIR: Durjan Majhi, who died by suicide hours before SIR hearing; Jamat Ali, who died at home after getting a hearing notice; a young mother at a hearing venue with her 3-month-old child; 90-year-old Muktibala Paramanik being brought to a hearing centre PURULIA/TAMLUK: Families of two elderly voters who died on Monday, after receiving…
HYDERABAD/MAHABUBABAD:Two childhood friends from Telangana’s Mahabubabad district were killed in a road accident in California’s Bishop city on Sunday. Both were living in Ohio and had gone to California on a trip with friends.Meghana Rani Pullakhandam, 25, and Bhavana Kadiyala, 24, had completed their master’s degree in computer science from the University of Dayton and…
SUTI(MURSHIDABAD)/SAMBALPUR: A 20-year-old villager from Suti, who went to work as a mason in Odisha’s Sambalpur five days ago — his first job outside Bengal — was beaten to death on Tuesday by a mob that accused him of being a Bangladeshi, according to the deceased’s family and witnesses. Odisha IGP Himanshu Lal, however, claimed…
The brother of slain youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi accused Bangladesh’s interim government, of orchestrating the killing to destabilise the country and derail the upcoming national election in February.Also read: India summons high commissioner; protests continue over Hindu man killingSharif Omar bin Hadi, speaking at a protest rally in Shahbagh on Tuesday, said those in…
DEHRADUN: Late in the evening on Dec 18, when a co-worker called Apu Chandra Das to say that his elder brother had been taken by a mob, the 22-year-old didn’t immediately understand. “Taken where?” he had asked. But by the time the full story reached him, Dipu Chandra Das — 28 years old, a Hindu…
PILIBHIT: Days after a 14-day-old child’s parents alleged that he was deliberately dropped on the floor by staff at district women’s hospital in Pilibhit for not paying a bribe of Rs 5,000 for post-delivery procedure, the body was exhumed on Friday following the district magistrate’s (DM) orders of a “proper autopsy to ascertain the exact…
COIMBATORE: A 22-year-old native of Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore died in a Cambodian hospital on Wednesday, hours after Indian embassy officials rescued the critically unwell youth from a room where cyber fraudsters had confined him for refusing to work at their call centre.D Nandakumar from LIC Colony in Selvapuram passed away around 11pm without responding to…
