Ex Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal Panaji: Former Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by the Bombay HC last month for raping a junior colleague in 2013, surrendered Monday before a court in Mapusa, Goa.Tejpal had appealed against the order in the SC, which directed him to surrender within two weeks.The high court…
Panaji: The brother duo and co-owners of the Goa club, where a blaze in Dec last year had left 25 people dead, surrendered before a local court along with a third accused Monday.Birch by Romeo Lane co-owners Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra and Ajay Gupta surrendered before the Mapusa court two weeks after the Supreme Court…
NEW DELHI: Flagging the issue of prosecuting agencies filing voluminous evidence and naming large number of witnesses in corruption cases, Supreme Court disapproved of the practice, saying it leads to protracted hearing and long pendency.While acquitting a person in a 33-year-old corruption case on the ground that CBI failed to prove that he received pecuniary…
The Panama-flagged vessel was also struck on Sunday (Representative image: AP). The US military on Monday rejected a claim by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that an oil tanker collided with a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz.According to US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees American military operations in the Middle East, the Panama-flagged vessel was…
PM Narendra Modi will turn 76 on September 17 NEW DELHI: BJP president Nitin Nabin Monday appealed to people to light a ‘diya’ at their homes on PM Modi’s birthday on Sept 17 for his long life, good health and continued success as part of his party’s “Aashirwad ka Diya” campaign.“Let us all light an…
Discarded fruit peels could help recover valuable materials from used lithium-ion batteries at a pilot recycling plant in Singapore. Researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) developed a process that uses waste from oranges, lemons and pineapples to dissolve battery material and extract metals needed for new batteries. The facility, operating near Pioneer since late 2022,…
NEW DELHI: An interesting situation may be unfolding in Nandigram and Rejinagar, with both factions of TMC, one headed by Mamata Banerjee and the other by Ritabrata Banerjee, naming their own candidates for the bypolls while claiming to be the “real” party entitled to use its reserved symbol.EC, which heard the two factions Saturday, asked…
NEW DELHI: An attempt by the Mamata Banerjee faction of TMC to hammer out an alliance with Congress for upcoming bypolls in Bengal did not materialise after the latter insisted on going it alone, reports Subodh Ghildiyal.Trinamool’s decision to announce candidates in Nandigram and Rejinagar Monday came well after Congress had named its nominees.But it…
TMC’s 20 rebel Lok Sabha MPs merged with little-known NPCI after defection Jalpaiguri/Kolkata: West Bengal’s rebel-MP saga got a fresh twist Monday, with Cooch Behar MP Jagadish Prasad Basunia claiming 17 of 20 TMC defectors who joined the little-known NCPI following the Mamata Banerjee-headed party’s defeat in assembly elections in April would cross over to…
A hacking operation that began in early 2024 reached far beyond the companies directly targeted. A 26-year-old Canadian man, Connor Riley Moucka of Kitchener, Ontario, has admitted taking part in a campaign that compromised data held by at least 165 customers of a US-based software company. The stolen material ran into billions of records and…