Day: August 6, 2022

[ad_1] DHANBAD: Two men convicted of running over additional district and sessions judge Uttam Anand with an autorickshaw during his morning walk in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad last year were sentenced on Saturday to rigorous life imprisonment till death. A special CBI court in Dhanbad sentenced convicts Lakhan Verma and Rahul Verma to an additional seven years in prison and a fine of Rs 20,000 each. Both prison terms will run concurrently. It also directed the district legal services authority to ensure payment of compensation to the judge’s family. Judge Rajnikant Pathak…

[ad_1] DHANBAD: Two men convicted of running over additional district and sessions judge Uttam Anand with an autorickshaw during his morning walk in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad last year were sentenced on Saturday to rigorous life imprisonment till death. A special CBI court in Dhanbad sentenced convicts Lakhan Verma and Rahul Verma to an additional seven years in prison and a fine of Rs 20,000 each. Both prison terms will run concurrently. It also directed the district legal services authority to ensure payment of compensation to the judge’s family. Judge Rajnikant Pathak…

[ad_1] MUMBAI: A 24-year-old man and two of his friends have been arrested for allegedly extorting Rs 6.5 crore from the son of a woman from Dahisar who works in the US. They threatened to report him to the police by framing him in a drugs case, said the police. The three arrested accused also had unnatural sex with the 23-year-old youth and made a video of the act and threatened to upload it on social media. The men arrested by the crime branch unit 12 have been identified as…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Deputy CM Manish Sisodia alleged on Saturday that a former LG made it mandatory for liquor sellers to have the approval of the MCD and DDA when opening shops in non-conforming areas. This was done two days before the new excise policy came into force last year, he said, causing the state exchequer losses of “thousands of crores of rupees”, reports Atul Mathur. Sisodia said he has written to the CBI to probe the LG’s role in “favouring select liquor licensees… without the knowledge of the elected…

[ad_1] MUMBAI: Coming to the rescue of an Indian couple based in Australia who were forced to knock on its doors after their surrogate did not cooperate when they sought her no-objection to take their son to that country, a civil court has declared them biological parents of the now two-and-half-year-old boy. It was only after the parents moved the civil suit that the surrogate finally relented and gave no objection. The couple said they needed certain documents to comply with the visa process for their son. The court said…

[ad_1] PATNA: Recent findings of radioactive uranium in groundwater in some pockets of Bihar has set alarm bells ringing for the state administration as well as environmentalists. In the analysis of water samples collected from different parts of the state, the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has found uranium in concentrations above the permissible limit. While the permissible limit of uranium in potable water is 30 parts per billion (PPB), the CGWB found uranium traces in the groundwater samples in the range of 40-50 PPB. Thakur Brahmanand Singh, regional director…

[ad_1] PATNA: Recent findings of radioactive uranium in groundwater in some pockets of Bihar has set alarm bells ringing for the state administration as well as environmentalists. In the analysis of water samples collected from different parts of the state, the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has found uranium in concentrations above the permissible limit. While the permissible limit of uranium in potable water is 30 parts per billion (PPB), the CGWB found uranium traces in the groundwater samples in the range of 40-50 PPB. Thakur Brahmanand Singh, regional director…