Imphal: Three people, including a woman, were killed in fresh clashes between armed groups in Manipur’s Kamjong and Ukhrul districts in the past 24 hours, while Kamjong police station was reportedly set on fire, officials said Saturday. Meanwhile, police have dismissed reports and video circulating on social media that the Kamjong police station was burnt. The violence...

Puri: The craze for making social media reels claimed two lives in Odisha within 24 hours, with a boy and a snake catcher dying in separate incidents, police said Saturday. In the first incident, the boy died after being hit by a train while allegedly filming a reel on the Khordha-Balangir railway line in Boudh district. The...

Hyderabad: Invoking the right to speedy trial under Article 21 of the Constitution, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has moved the Telangana High Court seeking speedy and day-to-day trial in money laundering charge sheets filed against the former Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and others, an official said Saturday. The petition filed by the ED before the...

Bhubaneswar/Sundaragada: An Odisha government employee was arrested Saturday for allegedly possessing assets, including four buildings, seven high-value plots, and bank deposits worth around Rs 1.46 crore, disproportionate to his known sources of income, a vigilance officer said. The accused, identified as Prasanna Kumar Patra, has been working as a deputy director of soil conservation division in Sundaragada...

Bhubaneswar: Three more Odisha government employees were arrested for allegedly being involved in the "misappropriation" of public funds of around Rs 9.24 crore, taking the total number of apprehended persons in the case to nine, the vigilance department said Saturday. A senior accountant at the district treasury office in Bhubaneswar, a senior assistant at the Puri Road...

Nabarangpur: A couple from Odisha’s Nabarangpur district allegedly had to mortgage their family ration card to borrow Rs 5,000 to transport their 10-day-old son’s body home after they were "denied" the government’s Mahaprayan hearse service at a hospital in Koraput. Ambika and her husband, Nakula Bhatra, residents of Daleiguda village under Papadahandi block, lost their prematurely born...

Mumbai: Popular social media influencer Faisal Shaikh, popularly known as Mr Faisu, announced his wedding  Saturday. Taking to his official Insta handle, he uploaded a string of dreamy pictures from the nikah ceremony, which took place in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. While Faisu opted for a white sherwani for his special day, the bride looked gorgeous in a...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Saturday convicted former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain of abetment to rioting in a case related to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots in the Dayalpur area, while acquitting the 12 other accused of all charges. Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh convicted Hussain under Section 147 (punishment for rioting) read with Section 109 (abetment)...

New Delhi: Significant differences have surfaced within industrialist Venu Srinivasan's family over the interpretation of ownership and succession arrangements in TVS Motor Company and its holding firm TVS Holdings Ltd, with matriarch Mallika Srinivasan learnt to be pushing for an amicable and equitable settlement between her children, industry sources said. Mallika Srinivasan, mother of Lakshmi Venu and...

New Delhi: Stones were pelted at a bus carrying detained individuals in New Delhi's Jhandewalan area Saturday as the police continued detaining people arriving near Jantar Mantar for the Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) proposed protest, officials said. According to the officials, the incident occurred when police personnel were transporting some of the detained individuals in a bus...