PATNA: Two teenagers are feared drowned after they, along with three others, were swept away by strong currents while bathing in the Ganga river at Bhadra Ghat in the city on Monday.Three of them were rescued, while two others – Shivam Kumar, 16, and Pawan Kumar, 17 – are still missing, according to Rahul Kumar…
BALASORE: Two teachers of a school in Odisha’s Balasore were arrested after a class 9 student accused them of repeated sexual and mental harassment during school hours over the past three months. Police detained the school headmaster for allegedly suppressing the matter. He was questioned for a few hours and let off on Monday.One of…
NEW DELHI: An appellate tribunal here has imposed a Rs 81 crore penalty on PwC, reducing it from the Rs 230 crore slapped by Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the audit firm in a case of violation of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (Fema).PwC has been accused of receiving Rs 230 crore FDIs in violation of…
NEW DELHI: Nine show-cause notices were issued to Air India during the last six months in connection with five identified safety violations, Union junior aviation minister Murlidhar Mohol said in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. Enforcement action has been completed in respect of one violation, he added.Regarding the AI Dreamliner…
NEW DELHI: In a high-profile case of corruption against a senior govt executive, an ED special court Monday convicted Abhay Srivastava, a former chairman and managing director of public sector undertaking Nalco, his wife Chandni and two associates under the anti-money laundering law for allegedly receiving bribes from contractors in supply of two lakh tonne…
JAIPUR: A 22-year-old man was fatally stabbed near Jaipur late Sunday night by an alleged history-sheeter from another community and his aides, sparking communal tension and protests on Monday along a key highway and leading to hours of snarls.Vipin Kumar was stabbed around 14 times, allegedly by Mohammad Anas and his associates in full public…
Union civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu NEW DELHI: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) “follows a definitive, rule-based process” and is “totally unbiased in probing the Air India Ahmedabad plane crash,” Union civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu said in the Rajya Sabha Monday, the opening day of Parliament’s Monsoon session.“There are multiple…
NEW DELHI: Bihar has become the first state in country to have a cap of 1,200 electors per polling station (PS), as against the current countrywide norm of a maximum 1,500 electors per PS. The reduced upper limit has added 12,817 polling stations in state, taking their statewide strength to 90,712 from 77,895 prior to…
NEW DELHI: UGC on Monday issued a show cause notice to Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) “as to why disciplinary or legal action should not be initiated against your institution”, which include “withdrawal of the status of institution deemed to be University” and barred “from any expansion… for a period of three years”. The…
Man eats chicken in an ISKCON restaurant LONDON: Police are investigating after a young black male YouTuber waltzed into the famous Govinda’s vegan and vegetarian restaurant in Soho on Saturday, pulled out a tub of KFC and started eating chicken in front of horrified staff and guests.The restaurant is run by ISKCON UK’s Radha-Krishna Temple…