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The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court has held the State liable to pay ₹30 lakh as compensation to the families of two labourers who died while cleaning a septic tank at a private residence in Nanded district in 2021. A division bench of Justices Nitin Suryawanshi and Vaishali Patil-Jadhav ruled that the State’s…
The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached immovable properties worth about ₹158.37 crore in connection with its ongoing probe in the case of Rockland Hospitals Limited and others. The ED initiated investigation based on a complaint filed by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) before a special Delhi court under the Companies Act. “The investigation pertains…
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The CBI has recovered Shivraj Raghunath Motegaonkar’s phone, in which 36 images (five duplicate images) containing 132 handwritten questions of chemistry were found, the agency said. File. | Photo Credit: RCC Website, The Hindu Latur-based coaching centre owner Shivraj Raghunath Motegaonkar, arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the NEET paper leak case,…
Cafes come and cafes go, but the need for a space to unwind goes on forever. In 2018, at the cusp of the booming cafe scene in Chennai, a new cafe found its way to a celebrity’s Instagram story. The story goes as all stories do. A rise and fall in customers. Some became regulars,…
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The Bihar cabinet on Wednesday (July 15, 2026) authorised the Gram Panchayats to impose and collect taxes that would enable panchayats to develop their own financial resources, thus reducing their dependence on the State government. The cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, gave its nod to the draft “Gram Panchayat Taxes, Rates and Fees…
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A scene from the play ‘Dirty Biryani’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In the television world of storytelling, Somya Tewari missed seeing authentic conversations between women. “They are either shown to be too polished or too mellow. This is not how we talk,” says the writer of the play Dirty Biryani to be staged at…
Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari. File picture | Photo Credit: PTI The Nagpur Cyber Police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) against multiple social media content creators for allegedly executing a defamatory digital campaign targeting Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari. The legal action stems from highly…
A Delhi court has permitted activist Umar Khalid, an accused in the larger conspiracy case related to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, to continue having two video meetings (e-mulakats) with his family every week. Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai of Karkardooma Court passed the order on July 13 while hearing an application filed by Mr….
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When Chandan Kumar, a delivery agent in Delhi, was intercepted by the police on Sri Aurobindo Marg for riding his motorcycle without a helmet, he expected to be let off after paying a challan. Instead, he was made to sit through an impromptu session on road safety along with 15 to 20 other violators before…
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The Excise here arrested an alleged drug peddler with 1.058 kg of suspected cannabis from a residential area at Chakkaraparambu near Vyttila even as it claimed to have intensified its crackdown on what it called the “dead drop” trafficking method. West Bengal native Shah Rukh Khan was arrested by an Excise special squad led by…
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