Indore: Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav will release two male cheetahs from Kuno in Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary in Neemuch-Mandsaur on Sunday, making it the second home of cheetahs in India, Neemuch collector Himanshu Chandra said on Friday.It’s the first translocation of cheetahs in India and marks phase-II of the cheetah reintroduction project to … Read more
MEERUT: Three months after a an insurance scam worth hundreds of crores was unearthed in Sambhal, police have filed an 800-page chargesheet against 11 accused – residents of UP, Bihar and Jharkhand. The group – dubbed the “insurance mafia” – allegedly created fraudulent life insurance policies involving the dying and even those already dead to … Read more
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana high court has upheld the conviction of seven villagers from Punjab’s Nawanshahr for attempting to swindle land by forging the will of a soldier who vanished during World War 2, reports Ajay Sura.Harbans Singh, a native of Sheikhupur Bagh village, disappeared after 1943, prompting his wife Joginder Kaur to have him … Read more
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana HC overturned the compensation awarded to a couple who conceived a child after a failed vasectomy, reports Ajay Sura. HC said this was “not due to medical negligence” but because the couple did not exercise “due care and caution”. While passing the order, judge Nidhi Gupta referred to a SC verdict, … Read more
BAREILLY: A 500-page chargesheet was Thursday filed by the SIT in cases involving the alleged murder of Mohd Bilal and Ayan, two of the five men killed in violence during a court-directed survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal on Nov 24, 2024.An SIT officer in Sambhal, requesting anonymity, said Friday that the chargesheet … Read more
‘Dhruv’ advanced light helicopters NEW DELHI: It’s a double whammy for the armed forces. Already grappling with the high crash rate and low serviceability of their 350 obsolete single-engine Cheetah and Chetak choppers, the prolonged grounding of the around 330 twin-engine ‘Dhruv’ advanced light helicopters (ALHs) has majorly hit military operations and preparedness.The armed forces … Read more
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Kashmir’s chief cleric and chairman of Hurriyat Conference (Image Credit: X/@MirwaizKashmir) SRINAGAR: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Kashmir’s chief cleric and chairman of Hurriyat Conference, was placed under house arrest and not allowed to offer Friday prayers at Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid.“Every Friday, I am put under arbitrary house arrest,” Mirwaiz said. J&K police had … Read more
JAMMU: The Army on Friday ordered an inquiry after an IGNOU professor accused troops of assaulting him without any provocation during a checking of vehicles in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir late Thursday night.Officials said the professor, Liaqat Ali, allegedly suffered head injuries in the assault that took place near the border village of … Read more
Prof MGK Menon (2nd from left), Prof UR Rao (4th from left), K Kasturirangan (extreme right) and a few others from team Aryabhata Jawahar, Maitri. Remember these two names. We’ll orbit back to them soon. For now, let’s travel back to half a century ago:A chill breeze rustled through the vast Russian steppe as countdown … Read more
President Donald Trump has warned that the United States could walk away from efforts to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine “very shortly” if progress isn’t made. The US president said he was hopeful a ceasefire could be reached but made it clear that if either side proves too difficult, the US would simply “take … Read more