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NEW DELHI: The Allahabad high court grants bail to man accused of posting image of the Indian flag with dog sitting upon it on Facebook. The court further said “pre-trial detention cannot be indefinite.”The high court has granted bail to Vasik Tyagi, a man accused of uploading posts on Facebook showing a dog sitting on the Indian National Flag and allegedly making pro-Pakistan comments, observing that prolonged pre-trial detention cannot become punitive before guilt is established, as per a report by LiveLaw.What did the high court ruling saysJustice Rajiv Lochan Shukla, while hearing Tyagi’s second bail application, noted that he…
Yo Yo Honey Singh has made a startling personal revelation – he is bald. The star has revealed that years of heavy medication during his battle with bipolar disorder caused him to lose all his hair, and he has since been wearing a wig.Honey Singh reveals he wears a wigThe singer has offered his most detailed and raw account of some of the darkest years of his life. While being one of the biggest music talents in the country, he revealed that he was fighting serious mental health challenges that eventually took a severe physical toll him. During an appearance…
MUMBAI: In a crackdown on organized narco-criminal networks, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) detained a habitual offender, Rahul Shedge, under the PIT-NDPS ACT. Shedge was intercepted on May 27 and subsequently lodged in the designated jail at Taloja Central Prison.”Shedge has been engaged in trafficking and preparation of illicit drugs due to which he was arrested four times by law enforcement agencies including NCB & DRI. He has thorough knowledge in chemistry and first turned to drug trafficking in 2009 when he was arrested by DRI Mumbai involving multiple drugs like Alprazolam, Nordazepam, Amphetamine and Diazepam. After being enlarged on bail,…
Businessman-turned-politician Naveen Goyal (Photo credit: X/@Naveen Goyal) GURGAON: A local businessman has accused three men, including businessman-turned-politician Naveen Goyal, of orchestrating a violent assault on him through hired attackers and issuing death threats to force him to shut down his factory, according to an FIR registered at Sector-10 police station.Naveen Goyal had contested the 2024 Gurgaon assembly elections as an Independent candidate after rebelling against the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) as the saffron party did not alot him the party ticket.The FIR, registered on May 2 under Sections 115, 333, 324(4) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), is…
Pune: Every afternoon, Asha worker Seema (name changed) slings a bag carrying forms and a cellphone over her shoulder and begins knocking on doors in her locality for the ongoing census exercise. By the end of the day, she has walked through lanes for hours in the sweltering heat, trying to collect details from families, many of whom are either unaware of the process or reluctant to share personal information.Seema said she surveyed nearly 800 residents. “We spend three to four hours outdoors every day and usually cover around 10 to 12 households. Some families cooperate but in many homes…
In cities filled with concrete, glass and rising temperatures, Spanish botanist Ignacio Solano sees something different in the empty walls around him. Through massive vertical gardens covered in thousands of plants, Solano is helping transform ordinary buildings into living ecosystems that cool the air, reduce pollution and support biodiversity. His work, spread across Europe and Latin America, has become part of a growing movement to make cities greener as climate change drives stronger and more frequent heatwaves. From studying tropical rainforests to building hydroponic living walls on skyscrapers, Solano has spent years turning nature into a practical urban climate solution.The…
The BJP has announced new state unit chiefs, appointing Union minister Harsh Malhotra (L) as the president of its Delhi unit and Kewal Singh Dhillon (R) for Punjab. NEW DELHI: The BJP on Thursday announced a fresh round of organisational appointments across several states, naming Union minister Harsh Malhotra as the new chief of the party’s Delhi unit and senior leader Kewal Singh Dhillon as the president of its Punjab unit.The appointment of Harsh Malhotra was announced by BJP national president Nitin Nabin as part of the party’s ongoing organisational reshuffle ahead of key political battles in multiple states.In another…
LUCKNOW: A 35-year-old property dealer was killed in broad daylight in a busy marketplace of the city on Wedndesday. A 50-second CCTV clip has captured the murder, purportedly showing two bikeborne assailants firing repeatedly at close range and continuing to shoot even after the victim, Sandeep Singh , collapsed.The victim ran an office under the name PSS Builders Private Limited at Yadav Complex in Kalli Paschim market. Singh, originally from Takari village in Jaunpur, had been living in Lucknow’s Vrindavan Yojana with his wife Preeti, son Sarthak and daughter Shivi.The accused were riding a bike with a faulty number plate,…
Srinagar, May 28: The Meteorological Centre Srinagar has forecast brief spells of rain, thundershowers and gusty winds across Jammu and Kashmir over the next two days, while issuing an advisory regarding possible thunderstorm and hailstorm activity at a few places. According to the forecast, scattered to fairly widespread areas may witness brief spells of rain, thundershowers, hailstorm and gusty winds on May 28 and 29. The weather is expected to remain generally dry from May 30 to June 3, although brief spells of rain or thundershowers at isolated places during late afternoon hours cannot be ruled out. For June 4…
Months after Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan donated $6.25 billion to seed “Trump accounts” for children, the company has secured a massive $9.7 billion contract with the US Department of Defense to provide enterprise software to the military. Dell CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan Dell committed a fund of $6.5 billion to ‘Trump Accounts’ for children in the US. Announcing the donation last year, Michael Dell said: “We’ve seen what happens when a child gets even a small financial h head start — their world expands.” Now months after this donation, Dell…