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Twenty-one of those killed were women. There were three children among the dead, including a one-and-a-half-year-old boy whose parents could only watch in horror as he plunged into the well just inches away from them. His body was among the last to be found as the dead were stacked on top of each other in the 50-foot-deep well. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/iv6NEJk

A police statement said a case had been registered under IPC and UAPA at Heerpora police station in connection with the attack on the YouTube journalist and an SIT was constituted to probe the incident. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ELYlHNk

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The CBI has busted an alleged "cash-for-treatment" racket operating at Safdarjung Hospital and arrested a senior neurosurgeon, besides a south Delhi businessman and three middlemen, for malpractices and corruption, reports Rajshekhar Jha. The accused doctor, Manish Rawat, is posted as an associate professor in the department of neurosurgery at the hospital and is a resident of Lodhi Colony. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/1EaBATr

A video showing BJP MLA from Bagbasa (North Tripura) Jadablal Nath watching purported porn clips on a mobile phone in the assembly went viral Wednesday night. The MLA said the video started playing on its own. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/mRt1zJ4

The land holdings of some 727 Bengali Hindu refugees in three rehab camps in Raichur district, Karnataka, in 1971 — carrying thesurname ‘Sarkar’ — have been marked government or ‘sarkari’ land, in a bungle over the surname. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/VzjGSbA

These flights were diverted to Lucknow, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh and Dehradun, an airport official said. Thunderstorms with light rains lashed parts of the national capital. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/kmyZ9nd

A day after daring the Punjab police to arrest him, radical preacher Amritpal Singh surfaced in a fresh video on Thursday, asserting he was not a fugitive and would soon appear before the world. The purported video surfaced hours after his audio clip came out on social media in which he debunked speculation he was negotiating his surrender. “Those who feel that I have turned fugitive and I have left my associates, they should not keep this illusion in their mind. I do not fear death,” he said in the video in Punjabi. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/VwH58Qt

Misuse of money power is one of the key challenges in Karnataka, CEC Rajiv Kumar said while announcing the poll schedule. In all, cash, liquor, goods and drugs worth Rs 57.7 crore have been seized in the past month in Karnataka. This time, 4,880 enforcement teams will be at work, against 4,147 in 2018. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/pYZfOyx

The court order mentions how the ATS had overlooked the difference between the pellets found in the victims' bodies and those presented as evidence. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sHEtRd

"Is the state impotent? Can't it take timely action against hate speech mongers? If it can't take, why do we have a state at all?" These posers came from the Supreme Court Wednesday on a petition seeking contempt proceedings against Maharashtra for inaction against hate speeches by Hindu organisations despite undertaking to prevent it. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/6vQtcFT

Two months after the order of the Kerala high court's January 25 order staying P P Mohammad Faizal's conviction, the Lok Sabha secretariat restored the membership of the disqualified Lakshadweep MP (of NCP) - just hours before the Supreme Court was set to take up his petition against the delay. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/RmuPVWL

The August 2022 order by NGT was in an application filed by a south Mumbai resident Dileep Nevatia who had sought orders to direct the government and civic administration to “maintain air and noise quality level for construction of the Coastal Road (South) project within limits’’ specified under the Noise Pollution rules. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/li3TGza

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Respect for the rule of law and judicial independence is the cornerstone of any democracy, the US has said, adding that it is watching Rahul Gandhi's court case that resulted in his disqualification from the Lok Sabha. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ZlQwHr0

A seven-member special task force (STF) from Haryana's Sonipat on a quiet mission to nab a murder accused at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district was attacked by locals with sticks and stones on Sunday. Some STF men were injured and their weapons were snatched before a UP police squad reached the spot and rescued them. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/O4LNDCs

Citing a media report, Pasha said despite the SC's February 3 order directing the Maharashtra police to take action against a Hindu organisation indulging in hate speech and calling for boycott of Mulsims, as many as 50 rallies have been organised in the last four months across the state. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/8I5yvNn

The petitioner, MP leader of the opposition Govind Singh, alleged that the unbridled power given to the agency was being misused to silence opposition leaders across the country. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/onM91AB

Holding that the special CBI trial court Judge passed a wrong order in January 2018 in a 2009 custodial torture and death case, the Bombay high court setting it aside directed framing of a murder charge against three accused police officials. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/vjGDSPO

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An agitation by members of the Banjara and Bhovi communities against the internal reservation for the Scheduled Castes announced by the state government last week turned violent Monday as they targeted the residence of former CM BS Yediyurappa in his hometown Shikaripur, about 50 km from Shivamogga. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3X9hNgD

The government is all set to allow drug companies an increase in line with the change in the annual Wholesale Price Index (WPI). The annual change in WPI, as notified by the government, works out to 12.12% during 2022, the drug prices regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) said on Monday. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/nuAqP4L

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After a year-long lull, Covid-19 wards are opening in some private hospitals with a handful of admissions trickling in daily. While some have increased their masking and testing protocols in response to the surge in cases, others remain on standby. On Sunday, active cases in the state went past 2,000 for the first time since October. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3JCdOGT

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An over 25-feet-long dead humpback whale had washed ashore at the Revdanda coast, near Alibag in Raigad district on Sunday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/svUHtFe

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In view of the current weather conditions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday advised farmers to postpone harvesting of matured crops in Jammu, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, and keep already-harvested produce in safe places or cover them in the field with tarpaulin sheets. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/r7vWHLu

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PM Narendra Modi hit out at political opponents on Saturday for "playing games over languages" that had consequently deprived rural and poor children of quality higher education over the past years, while asserting that kids can now learn in their mother tongue because of his government's policy push for native languages in schools and colleges. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/th78Rrg

While the fines collected through e-challans by the traffic and transport rule enforcement agencies across states have increased 450% in the past three-and-a-half years since the penalties were hiked, there has been barely 3% decline in road deaths during this period. Experts said better and scientific enforcement of rules is key to reducing road crashes and fatalities rather than focusing on slapping challans and fines. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/MExJvy8

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Covid-19 claimed three lives in neighbouring Thane even as 343 people tested positive for the viral infection across Maharashtra, said the state Covid update on Friday. While zero Covid deaths were reported in February, the number of Covid-19 deaths in the state in March has now risen to 13. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/bYCUE6L

Reversing its 12-year-old ruling that mere membership of proscribed organisations, without inciting or indulging in violence, is not an offence under UAPA, the Supreme Court on Friday said a person continuing to be a member of an outfit, despite knowing it is banned, would risk prosecution and a jail term of two years. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/L2qw4hz

Rahul Gandhi was on Friday disqualified as an MP from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in compliance with the Surat trial court order, which had on Thursday convicted him in a criminal defamation case and sentenced him to two years, in a development which escalated BJP's confronation with Congress and widened its arc with many others in the opposition rallying for the Congress leader. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/T8IOHRl

The Congress on Friday accused the government of acting with "lightning speed" in disqualifying Rahul Gandhi, saying it amounts to "strangulation of democracy" and alleging that the ruling dispensation is coming out with new techniques to "gag" him.The party leadership got into a huddle soon after the disqualification was announced by the Lok Sabha Secretariat and decided to fight it legally and politically and launch a countrywide "Jan Andolan" starting Monday. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/IwT5V0j

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Police said Ajay, a native of Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh who lived in Ghaziabad, was working as a peon at the Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run school for the last 10 years. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/rEoYfIm

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In supplementary chargesheet filed in a bank fraud case related to absconding businessman Vijay Mallya, the CBI has named Buddhadev Dasgupta, the then general manager of IDBI Bank, as an accused and alleged that he manipulated the records to help now defunct Kingfisher Airlines to avail Rs 150 crore loan. The CBI said Mallya spent a part of the funds on his luxurious lifestyle and he didn’t repay the loan despite having adequate money. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/37TUdmK

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After a worker fell from the fourth floor into a pit filled with water at an under-construction building site at Kandivali, police have registered an FIR against the labour contractor and site engineer. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/TZwQ90k

A girl from Delhi was allegedly abducted, raped & killed by a few men in Haryana’s Jhajjar. Her body was reportedly buried by the accused. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/YVd6WKD

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Rajasthan on Tuesday passed a landmark Right to Health (RTH) Bill under which private hospitals will not be able to charge emergency patients and will be compensated by the state — a “controversial” provision according to such hospitals and doctors who continued protests against the move for the second day and were later joined by government doctors. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Qno1a24

The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed shock over some trial courts not complying with its July 2022 order to be liberal and grant bail to accused in cases when custody is not needed. Asking the courts not to pass detention orders in a routine and mechanical way and thus deny liberty to the accused, the SC said such judges needed to be sent to academies for “upgrading their knowledge”. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/HnvmW2T

India needs to develop “both offensive and defensive space capabilities to safeguard our assets”, Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari said on Tuesday, in the backdrop of China furiously building and deploying anti-satellite weapons from direct ascent missiles and co-orbital killers to directed-energy laser weapons and electronic jammers. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/sRmE501

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