Mumbai: The Agripada police, probing abetment of suicide of a 53-year-old woman, has added murder section in the case. Her husband, Shoaib Khan (27), was earlier arrested for abetment of suicide. Gulshan Khan died on April 6 this year after she is said to have jumped off the bathroom window of her 13th-floor apartment in…
New Delhi: Stopping short of giving an order on the merits of the case, Delhi High Court on Wednesday allowed AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan to withdraw his PIL over demolitions in the Batla House area. The bench of Justices Girish Kathpalia and Tejas Karia declined to pass a general order of protection on the PIL,…
Navi Mumbai: The principal of a nursing college in Poyanje village, Panvel, was on Tuesday booked for abetment of a 19-year-old student’s suicide at his college hostel on June 3, after his mother lodged a police complaint. The mother alleged that her son died by suicide as he was unable to bear the harassment by…
New Delhi: A 26-year-old man was stabbed to death in southwest Delhi’s Kishangarh on Tuesday. Police have arrested the accused, a resident of Mizoram, who claimed that the victim and his girlfriend were arguing. When he tried to intervene, the victim allegedly assaulted him, prompting him to stab the victim in a fit of rage.The…
Navi Mumbai: The principal of a nursing college in Poyanje village, Panvel, was on Tuesday booked for abetment of a 19-year-old student’s suicide by hanging at his college hostel on June 3, after his mother lodged a police complaint. The mother alleged that her son died by suicide as he was unable to bear the…
NEW DELHI: Delhi govt plans to utilise the treated wastewater from the 574 MLD Okhla sewage treatment plant (STP) to address the environmental flow (e-flow) deficit in the Yamuna.The authorities plan to discharge treated wastewater into the river via the STP, which would boost the e-flow by 5.69 cumecs (cubic metres per second). The e-flow…
MUMBAI: A special three-judge bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday set July 18 as the date it would start hearing afresh the challenges to the state’s latest iteration of the Maratha reservations. After the Supreme Court directive, the HC in May constituted a new three-judge bench to hear petitions, including those filed as…
New Delhi: Admissions to postgraduate (PG) programmes at Delhi University‘s School of Open Learning (SOL) for the 2025–26 academic year will now be based on a combination of CUET-PG scores and merit-based criteria.Initially, admissions were planned to be merit-only, but the university has revised its policy to align with the centralised admission framework used for…
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on June 9 ruled that the deputy registrar has no power to disqualify the entire managing committee based on alleged procedural lapses by the committee of a govt resolution of 2019, which was not mandatory in nature. The GR prescribed procedural safeguards to be observed by cooperative housing societies while…
New Delhi: A tea stall in southeast Delhi’s Govindpuri was allegedly functioning as a bribe collection centre, a fact that came to light after a raid by the Delhi Police Vigilance Unit led to the arrest of an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) and a tea vendor.According to police, the complainant, a daily-wage worker and resident of…
