Two persons including a teenager were killed and hundreds were turned homeless in an fire which broke out early morning on Saturday at a slum adjoining railway tracks in Patipukur area Kolkata. The deceased have been identified as 15-year-old Priya Adhikari and 27-year-old Nemai Adhikari. Fire broke out at about 2 a.m. in the morning, locals said. They also claimed […]
» Read morePetrol price was hiked by Rs 2.21 a litre and diesel by Rs. 1.79 per litre, excluding local levies, on Friday. The revised rates will take effect from midnight. Now, petrol in Delhi will cost Rs. 68.94 per litre from midnight as against Rs. 66.10 currently, said Indian Oil Corp, the nation’s largest fuel retailer. A litre of diesel will […]
» Read moreA month after the announcement of demonetisation on November 8, the income tax department carried out a record 586 searches across the country which yielded more than Rs 300 crore in cash seizures, Rs 79 crore in new currency notes of Rs 2,000, and unaccounted income of Rs 2,600 crore. The highest seizure has been from Tamil Nadu where the tax […]
» Read moreThe Income Tax Department and the Enforcement Directorate raided areas in Nalasopara this morning and seized cash of Rs 1.15 crore from a car belonging to a Shiv Sena leader. Of this, Rs 45 lakh are in the new Rs 2,000 currency notes and the rest in old R500 currency notes. The police have detained the Shiv Sena man and […]
» Read moreOvercrowding of local trains claimed yet another life on Wednesday after a 27-year-old woman died after falling from an overcrowded local train between Chunabhatti and GTB Nagar during peak rush hour. A teacher at a Wadala-based school, Poonam Tambe was on her way back home in Pratiksha Nagar when she had the fatal fall from the train. We received information […]
» Read moreIn an incident that once again brings to the forefront women’s safety in the Capital even four years after Delhi gang rape case, a 20-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a driver in South Delhi’s Moti Bagh late Wednesday night. The driver had offered lift to the victim while she was waiting for a bus near AIIMS. The accused has […]
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