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Vadodara: What began as a routine probe into theft of four cows soon turned into a dramatic late-night operation across villages in Anand district, leading Petlad rural police to an alleged gang stealing cattle and the recovery of six stolen cows.Police officials said the case had triggered concern among cattle owners in the region, where livestock thefts often leave families financially shattered overnight.Determined to crack the case quickly, Petlad rural police intensified surveillance, deployed patrol teams and began tracking suspicious movement in rural pockets around Virsad.The breakthrough came during a night patrol when police received a precise tip-off about the…

Gorakhpur: In a major push towards women empowerment, construction of a 500-bed working women’s hostel has started in Gorakhpur under the Chief Minister Shramjeevi Mahila Chhatravas Yojana.The project, coming up at Khuthan in Chargawan block, will be built at a cost of Rs 47.38 crore and is targeted for completion by Sept 2027.Spread across 6,640 square metres, the hostel is being developed by the women and child welfare department. CM Yogi Adityanath is likely to formally inaugurate the construction work soon. Soil testing, survey work and piling activities have already begun at the site.Officials of the Uttar Pradesh Rajkiya Nirman…

T’puram: A psychologist at a private hospital in Kollam was arrested for repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor girl who came to him for counselling, police said.The accused, Santosh Sukumaran, attached to a private hospital at Umayanalloor, was arrested by Varkala police after the victim’s parents filed a complaint.According to police, the girl visited the hospital for counselling sessions, accompanied by her mother. On one such occasion, Sukumaran took the child into a private room on the pretext of conducting a session in the mother’s absence, subjected her to sexual assault, and photographed her without clothing.The incident came to light only…

Kolkata: TMC Barasat MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar resigned from the post of the party’s Barasat organisational district president on Sunday. In a letter addressed to state party president Subrata Bakshi, she stated that she was stepping down taking moral responsibility for the party’s defeat in Barasat. While doing so, she attacked political consultancy agency I-PAC indirectly.”I think that the way this organisation has worked and abused us, the way they put pressure on us, this is not the way to work. Wherever they go, I think they will produce dangerous results in the elections,” Ghosh Dastidar said in her letter.A…

Shafat Malik Bandipora, May 24: The net is a lie. What hangs between two wooden poles on a narrow road in the Chanpal area of Chittibanday in Bandipora is not a volleyball net but a single nylon rope, frayed at the edges, sagging in the middle, tied and retied so many times that the knots have become the only permanent thing here. This rope is the court. These poles are the posts, and the road beneath them is where a generation of young men is learning to play a sport that this tiny pocket of Bandipora has loved for decades. Chittibanday’s affair…

Kalyan: A 30-year-old factory supervisor was hacked to death in the Mharal area near Titwala for a noble act — advising a woman he considered his sister to report the molestation of her minor daughter. The Kalyan Taluka (Titwala) police acted swiftly, arresting all three accused, including the prime suspect, within an hour of the gruesome crime.The victim, identified as Ravindra Ahire, a resident of Malkhan Compound in Mharal village, was intercepted on Friday night and brutally assaulted with sharp weapons. He suffered multiple fatal injuries and died on the spot.According to police sources, the trouble began on Thursday when…

New Delhi: Hip replacement surgeries among Indians in their 30s and 40s have risen by nearly 40% in the post-Covid period, with doctors linking the surge to steroid-related bone damage and delayed diagnosis of avascular necrosis (AVN), a painful condition that destroys the hip joint.May is observed as Arthritis Awareness Month, and orthopaedic experts at DELHI HIP 360 Conference warned that the post-Covid period has accelerated hip arthritis and joint damage among younger and middle-aged adults, increasing demand for total hip replacement surgeries across the country.Doctors said hospitals are increasingly treating younger patients reporting severe hip pain, limping, stiffness and…

Bengaluru [Karnataka], Apr 30 (ANI): A visual of the remains of the compound wall that collapsed near the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital on Wednesday amid heavy rainfall, causing several casualties in Shivajinagar, Bengaluru, on Thursday. (ANI Video Grab) Bengaluru: Nearly a month after the deadly wall collapse on the premises of Bowring and Lady Curzon Medical College and Research Institute claimed seven lives, police have booked the contractor entrusted with demolition and debris-clearing work after a technical probe allegedly found negligence in handling construction waste.The incident occurred on April 29 on the hospital premises, where old structures were being…

Hyderabad: Raidurgam police of the Cyberabad commissionerate detained a 19-year-old student for allegedly participating in illegal racing and injuring a constable.Residents and commuters alerted the police on Saturday night, reporting that a group of youngsters were creating chaos in the IT corridor by speeding through roads in cars and on bikes fitted with modified silencers that produced excessive noise. The racers were allegedly seen speeding around T-Hub, IKEA, and My Home Bhooja.Acting on the information, Raidurgam police rushed to the stretch and began checking vehicles. During the operation, police attempted to stop a car, but the driver allegedly ignored the…

Times News NetworkChennai: A 22-year-old woman died after an immersion water heater exploded in a bathroom at Kumarakuppam near Tiruttani on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Uma Maheswari, wife of Sudhakar, 27. The couple has a one-and-a-half-year-old son.According to police, Uma Maheswari had entered the bathroom when a loud explosion was heard from inside. Family members rushed to the spot and found her engulfed in flames.She was immediately taken to the Tiruttani Government Hospital for first aid. Later, she was shifted to the Tiruvallur Government Hospital for advanced treatment, where she succumbed to her injuries.Preliminary investigations revealed that an…