Day: January 21, 2020

Mumbai local train services to stop from Sunday midnight

Ticketless, irregular travel nets WR Rs 104 cr in fines

10:52 pm January 21, 2020

Mumbai: Western Railway recovered Rs 104.10 crore in fines from ticketless and irregular travellers between April to December 2019, officials said on Tuesday. A WR release said 21.33 lakh cases of ticketless or irregular travel, including unbooked luggage, were detected during this period, which is 8.85 per cent more than numbers in the corresponding period […]

Action against IIT-G students for supporting teacher who raised graft charges

10:50 pm January 21, 2020

Guwahati: The IIT-Guwahati has initiated disciplinary proceedings against nine students for organising a protest march and a hunger strike in support of a faculty member who was given “compulsory retirement” for raising several corruption charges against the institute. Issuing notices to the students on Monday, the Assistant Registrar of Students’ Affairs of the Indian Institute […]

SC to hear pleas challenging CAA on Wednesday

10:42 pm January 21, 2020

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Wednesday a batch of pleas seeking to examine the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). A bench, headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, which had issued notice to the Centre on December 18 on various pleas is likely to hear a batch […]

12-year-old boy charred to death in J-K's Samba

Dalit man set ablaze: NCSC asks MP cops to submit report

10:28 pm January 21, 2020

Bhopal: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes on Tuesday directed Sagar district police in Madhya Pradesh to submit a report within a week in connection with the setting ablaze of a Dalit youth on January 14. Dhanprasad Ahirwar (24) was doused with kerosene in Dharmshri Colony, some 170 kilometres from here, over a dispute allegedly […]

Gangs of thieves targeting wedding events active in Thane:Cops

Thief decamps with donation box of Bengaluru church

10:26 pm January 21, 2020

Bengaluru: An incident of burglary took place in a Bengaluru church where a thief decamped with the donation box in the early hours of Tuesday, police said. The burglar, who is yet to be identified, barged into the St Francis of Assisi Church at Kengeri Satellite Town and fled with the box at about one […]