Hyderabad: In a significant relief to hundreds of plot owners in Tellapur, Telangana high court has quashed land acquisition proceedings initiated nearly two decades ago for a proposed township, holding that the acquisition was marred by both procedural and substantive illegality.Justice Vakiti Ramakrishna Reddy struck down the 2006 land acquisition notification and the 2007 declaration…
Chennai: City cybercrime police have uncovered a complex network behind an online investment fraud that cost a 69-year-old retired bank employee Rs 3.4 crore. Police arrested a 52-year-old man from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and froze Rs 21 lakh in his account.The victim received a WhatsApp message from a person posing as Rajiv Mehta, chief…
Ahmedabad: A man died after he was allegedly stabbed in the chest by a juvenile during a fight over the closing of a house gate in Ahmedabad, police said.According to a complaint registered with Narol police, the incident began when the complainant visited his cousin and the latter’s wife at their residence. An argument broke…
Prayagraj: The Allahabad high court has upheld the removal of a private hospital from the panel of hospitals empanelled under the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), citing prima facie shortcomings in the implementation of the scheme and failure to observe necessary treatment protocols. The hospital had allegedly charged Rs 9,000 for two units…
The accident site in Boudh district Bhubaneswar: A 13-year-old boy, who had earlier turned the dangerous act of lying between railway tracks with a train passing overhead into social media content, died after being apparently dragged under a moving train in Boudh district, months after being warned by police against repeating the stunt.Investigators suspect that…
Two alleged drug smugglers were shot in the legs and a police personnel was injured in an exchange of fire near Sector 62, around 11.45 pm on Friday Two alleged drug smugglers were shot in the legs and a police personnel was injured in an exchange of fire near Sector 62, around 11.45 pm on…
Silchar: A 20-year-old man was killed and another critically injured after their motorcycle lost control and rammed into an electric pole on Ashram Road in Hailakandi town on Friday night.The deceased was identified as Gaurav Balmiki (20), while the injured man was identified as Saidul Ahmed Choudhury.Sources said the motorcycle was travelling along Ashram Road…
Hosapete (Vijayanagara): A third additional district and sessions court in Hosapete on Friday sentenced deputy range forest officer T Pampapathi Naik to five years’ rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs 6 lakh for accepting a Rs 600 bribe to return a seized mobile phone. The court ordered Naik to undergo an additional 12 months’ simple…
Kanpur: A retired lab technician died after allegedly jumping in front of a train at Govindpuri railway station in Govind Nagar on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Rajkishor Rastogi (69), a resident of Vishva Bank in the Barra police station area. He had retired as a lab technician from LPS Institute of Cardiology and Cardiac…
Kolkata: A 5.5-ft-tall representation of Goddess Durga is being created with recycled ballpoint pens at Tridhara Sammilani near Kalighat, one of the festive crowd-pullers in south Kolkata. Around 13,000 pens and refills will shape the installation of the goddess at the puja this year. After the festival, those pens will again be recycled into new…
