NEW DELHI: Govt on Sunday named senior Indian Revenue Service official L Satya Srinivas India’s executive director to the Asian Development Bank, ending the stranglehold IAS officers and economists had on the job. Srinivas, currently special secretary in the commerce department, is India’s chief negotiator for e trade deal with EU and led talks for…
BIJNOR: A 36-year-old woman, Meera Devi, was killed in a leopard attack at Issepur village near Najibabad town here Sunday. This is the fourth fatal attack suspectedly by the same animal in the past 12 days, and the 36th in the last two-and-a-half years in the district.Angry villagers took the body to the office of…
CHENNAI: A Pocso court in Chennai has sentenced a 48-year-old hotel worker to 20 years in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting his 15-year-old stepdaughter, relying on medical evidence and a tuition teacher’s testimony even after the survivor and her mother retracted their statements.At trial, the survivor told the court she had misunderstood her stepfather and…
JAIPUR: Seven of a family, including two children, died after the car they were travelling in skidded off the road and plunged into a deep, rainwater-filled pit along Jaipur Ring Road early Sunday.“Prima facie, it appears the car was speeding and being driven drowsily. The driver lost control of the car, which crashed into the…
BHUBANESWAR: On April 22, Priyadarshini Satpathy from Odisha’s Balasore lost her husband, Prashant, to terrorists’ bullets in Pahalgam. Less than five months later, India taking on Pakistan in Dubai Sunday felt like salt in her wounds, she said. “If not for us, the match should have been cancelled in memory of jawans who are sacrificing…
NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Sunday attacked the Modi govt on the Great Nicobar mega infrastructure project, saying it was “bulldozing this ecological disaster of a project through” even though environmental clearances have been challenged in courts.On Aug 18, 2022, Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration – controlled by union home ministry –…
NEW DELHI: Southwest (summer) monsoon started withdrawing from some parts of west Rajasthan Sunday against the normal date of Sept 17, IMD said. Normally, the withdrawal process ends on Oct 15 – a few days ahead of onset of winter monsoon in Peninsular India.It’s the earliest withdrawal of monsoon since 2015, when the retreat began…
NEW DELHI: Reiterating that a doctor cannot be charged with medical negligence simply because a patient does not respond favourably to treatment, the Supreme Court has granted relief to a doctor who was held responsible for death of a woman post childbirth.A bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and Satish Chandra Sharma said a patient’s not…
NAVI MUMBAI: Rabale police have filed an FIR following a road rage case in which the helper of a cement mixer was kidnapped by a person driving an SUV which brushed past the vehicle on Mulund-Airoli road on Saturday evening.DCP (zone 1) Pankaj Dahane said the SUV was in the name of Puja Automobiles, which…