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Santosh Deshmukh (File photo) NEW DELHI: Maharashtra Police on Saturday arrested two more men accused in the murder of Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh, who was tortured to death.The accused were identified as Sudarshan Ghule and Sudhir Sangle, news agency PTI reported citing the police.Police arrested the accused three days after the state government formed a…
File photo: Justice Ravikumar NEW DELHI: Born in a scheduled caste family in Peermade village in Idukki district of Kerala, C T Ravikumar decided to study law after graduating in zoology leading to a four-decade long career and his becoming a judge of the highest court through sheer hard work, proficiency and ability to win…
PUNE: Twelve-hour classes all-year round, creative writing skills that outshine those of peers, and multiplication tables memorised up to 1,000. A school in a Nashik backwater is creating ripples with all that and more, drawing Maharashtra education minister Dada Bhuse to the remote tribal hamlet within weeks of taking charge.The whiz-kids at the zilla parishad…
NEW DELHI: After accusing BJP govt of “brazenly violating” the Places of Worship Act, 1991, Congress is set to join the case in Supreme Court by demanding that the 1991 law be adhered to strictly.Supreme Court on December 12 ordered a stay on surveys ordered by various courts on pleas claiming that there were temples…
NEW DELHI: The Govt slammed Washington Post for its reports claiming covert operations by India in the Maldives and Pakistan, saying both the newspaper and reporter in question appeared to “nurse compulsive hostility” towards India and had no credibility left. “You can see a pattern in their activities. I leave you to judge their credibility….
NEW DELHI: The govt has lodged a strong protest with China over the recent creation of two counties in Hotan prefecture in its northwest, saying parts of these “so-called counties” fall in the Union Territory of Ladakh and India has never accepted the illegal Chinese occupation of Indian territory in this area.The creation of counties…
KOCHI/KASARAGOD: A CBI court on Friday sentenced 10 accused to life imprisonment and four others, including former CPM MLA from Uduma KV Kunhiraman, to five years in jail for the murder of two Youth Congress workers at Periya in Kerala’s Kasaragod in February 2019. The court had found them guilty on Saturday.The 10 accused were…
NEW DELHI: Only a fourth of India’s population has access to stroke-ready hospitals, claims a new study.India sees nearly 1.5 million stroke cases every year of which nearly 85 to 90% are caused by a clot in the major blood vessels of the brain.Treatment involves injecting drugs to break up the clot, also referred to…
NEW DELHI: Indicating the start of train operations between Jammu and Srinagar in the next couple of weeks, the railways has notified the timetable of one Vande Bharat and another two mail/express trains for the route. The single-trip Vande Bharat train on the route will take three hours and 10 minutes, while the other two…
PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court on Friday stayed the arrest of Samajwadi Party MP Ziaur Rahman Barq in connection with the violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district during a survey of the Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid.The HC, however, refused to quash the FIR registered in the case. A bench of justices Rajiv Gupta and Azahar…
