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SERAMPORE: A 27-year-old homemaker in Bengal’s Hooghly district consumed pesticide along with her six-year-old daughter in a suspected suicide attempt amid claims she did so as she was not given SIR forms and feared being struck off electoral rolls. Asha Soren was married eight years ago but had been staying with her parents in Kananadi…
NEW DELHI: Two men from Haryana’s Karnal district, who were promised jobs in Spain, are now trapped in Iran where human traffickers are torturing them and threatening to sell their kidneys unless a ransom is paid.Ritik (24) and Pawan (40) left home on October 22 after Haryana-based “travel agents” assured them of employment opportunities in…
PRAYAGRAJ/MEERUT: Allahabad high court has acquitted four men, including two Pak nationals, convicted as terrorists and sentenced to death for killing eight CRPF personnel and wounding five in a 2007 attack on their camp in UP’s Rampur. The bench instead held the four guilty under the Arms Act. The family of one of the slain…
SURI/MIDNAPORE/KOLKATA: The family of a 95-year-old man who died by suicide in his daughter’s Birbhum home on Thursday blamed “SIR fears” for his act, making it the second such case in Bengal in three days. Another man’s suicide attempt in Cooch Behar on Wednesday was also attributed to concerns over citizenship.CM Mamata Banerjee attacked what…
NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old law student suffered severe injuries when a pharmacy owner and three others attacked him following an argument over medicine prices in Kanpur’s Rawatpur area on Saturday night. The student’s stomach was split open, two fingers were chopped off, and he sustained head injuries during the violent assault.The incident occurred around 9…
NEW DELHI: A police sub-inspector in Maharashtra’s Satara district has been suspended and arrested, along with one civilian, after a woman doctor died by suicide and accused them of rape and harassment. Satara District Police registered a case against PSI Gopal Badane and another man, Bankar, under charges of rape and abetment to suicide. “The…
Jashanpreet’s parents, Kulwinder Singh (left) and Jasveer Kaur. GURDASPUR: The family of Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old semi-truck driver who was arrested in California after an eight-vehicle crash on a southern California freeway left three dead and four injured, is struggling to come to terms with the tragedy.Back home in Purana Shala village, Punjab, the atmosphere…
Ola Electric faces abetment to suicide charges after an engineer’s death. His family alleges workplace humiliation and salary denial drove him to suicide, naming CEO Bhavish Aggarwal and a senior executive in an FIR. The company denies harassment claims, expressing condolences and pledging cooperation with the investigation. BENGALURU: Last month, a 38-year-old engineer working with…
In the wake of the devastating stampede in Karur, the TVK has stepped forward, offering ₹20 lakh to each of the 41 families affected, alongside the state government’s provision of ₹10 lakh. Actor Vijay has called upon party members to skip Diwali festivities out of respect for the victims. KARUR: TVK has transferred 20 lakh…
Itanagar: A court in Arunachal Pradesh sentenced a 23-year-old man to life imprisonment for raping his cousin.The court termed the act as a ‘sin and social taboo’ that cannot be viewed leniently.Papum Pare district court sessions judge Hirendra Kashyap on Wednesday convicted Lijir Josam (Romin) under Section 376(2) (f) of the Indian Penal Code and…
