Day: September 24, 2020

Farmer commits suicide in UP’s Fatehpur

9:30 pm September 24, 2020

Fatehpur (UP): Upset over not being able to “repay” his loan, a farmer allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur, police said on Thursday. The incident took place at Naraini village in the Kishanpur area. The farmer, identified as Mahendra Savita (37), was found hanging from a tree around […]

Cops deployed outside Deepika Padukone’s residence

9:28 pm September 24, 2020

Mumbai: Police personnel have been deployed outside the residence of Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone, who is expected to arrive here from Goa on Thursday ahead of her appearance before the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), an official said. The NCB, which is probing an alleged Bollywood-drugs nexus, has summoned Padukone on Friday to record her statement. […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Retired Navy officer killed in Dwarka over money dispute

8:16 pm September 24, 2020

New Delhi: A retired naval officer, who was into real-estate business, was fatally shot in the face from a “very close range” by a man who owed him Rs 5 lakh for a residential flat bought from him in Dwarka Sector-23 in South West Delhi, police said Thursday. Balraj Deshwal, 55, had sold the flat […]

Woman murdered for refusing to convert: Police

8:11 pm September 24, 2020

Sonbhadra (UP): A 23-year-old woman was murdered as she allegedly refused to convert after marriage, police said here on Thursday. Police have arrested her husband and one other in this regard. SP Ashish Srivastava said the woman’s beheaded body was found in a forest area near Preet Nagar under the Chopan police station area on […]

BSF seizes 100kg of Hilsa fish being smuggled into India

8:06 pm September 24, 2020

Kolkata: Border Security Force has seized 100 kg of ‘Hilsa’ fish while the consignment was allegedly being smuggled from Bangladesh into India through Petrapole integrated checkpost in West Bengal, a BSF officer said on Thursday. During routine checking at the integrated checkpost in North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, BSF personnel found six bags containing […]