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Navi Mumbai: The Raigad Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) team laid a trap Tuesday and arrested the circle officer of Panvel tehsildar office for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 from a Panvel resident for registering the 7/12 extract document of the land in Panvel taluka belonging to the complainant and his wife. The arrested accused has been identified as Govardhan Mane (49), a class-3 officer, residing in Khopoli.Raigad ACB deputy SP Sarita Bhosale informed that, on May 16, a Panvel resident lodged a complaint with the Raigad ACB office, Alibaug, alleging that Govardhan Mane, the circle officer at Panvel Tehsildar…

New Delhi: A case of dowry death has been registered two days after a 25-year-old woman died after allegedly falling from a building in west Delhi’s Dasghara village.The woman was married to Raju Singh, who works in customer verification for a private real estate company. The couple, married in 2022, and had a six-month-old child. The woman was a homemaker, said police.According to investigators, a PCR call was received regarding a woman falling from a building, near Holi Chowk, in Dasghara village. A team from Inderpuri police station reached the spot and shifted the woman to a nearby hospital, where…

Bengaluru: Police busted an international drug-peddling network with the arrest of eight persons, including three foreigners, and seizure of 17kg of MDMA valued at Rs 17 crore.Police said the racket was allegedly masterminded by Reena Yadav alias Bapi, 50, who was released from a Delhi jail last year after serving 13 years in a criminal conspiracy case.According to police, the Delhi woman’s associates Dheeraj and Debashish Banerjee alias Debu were involved in collecting and transporting the contraband before handing it over to Bengaluru-based operatives through foreign women acting as couriers.The others arrested are Mohammed Masoor P and Abdul Samad, both…

Hyderabad: Officials of the prison department on Wednesday said governor Shiv Pratap Shukla has granted permission for remission to 92 convicts serving life imprisonment.A source in the prison department said, following an internal scrutiny process, 103 life convicts were first identified by jail superintendents and their names were forwarded to the state govt. The government, in turn, sent the list for vetting by intelligence agencies. After this verification, a high-level committee led by the chief secretary selected 92 prisoners based on the intelligence reports. The proposal was then placed before the state cabinet and subsequently forwarded to the governor for…

Chennai: Five inspectors of police, who had earlier served in stations under Kolathur and Harbour police sub-divisions and were shifted before the Model Code of Conduct came into effect duringelections, were transferred fromtheir present positions on Wednesday. The transferred officers S Ramesh of Otteri, G S Pushparaj of Meenambakkam, I Khader Meera of Madhavaram, and A Kannaki of Vanagaram from the law and order wing, along with T Kirubanithi of the Maduravoyal from crime wing, have been kept without posting. On Tuesday, Greater Chennai Police Commissioner Abhin Dinesh Modak transferred five inspectors of police and directed them to report to…

Ahmedabad: Responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal, several companies in Gujarat’s service sector are gradually implementing a phased work-from-home (WFH) arrangement. While some are still working out the nitty-gritties, others already have a provision of a section of their workforce working from home rotationally. Others are still assessing the feasibility of flexible work models.IT and technology firms, many of which already operate on hybrid systems introduced during the pandemic, are among the early movers. However, industry executives said large-scale remote operations continue to pose logistical and infrastructure-related challenges.”We were already partially operating in a WFH model. Around 50% of…

Prayagraj: A 35-year-old woman was taken into custody by Kaushambi police on Wednesday on charges of killing her husband. Police said Gudia, resident of Pabhosa village had a fight with her husband Pappu Nishad (40) on May 18 evening after he arrived home in an inebriated state. In a fit of anger, the woman attacked him with a brick and injured him seriously, said police.On Wednesday morning, Nishad’s condition deteriorated and he was brought to a private hospital by his father and nephew. Doctors declared him dead on arrival. A team of Paschim sarira police sent the body for post…

Bhubaneswar: The cabinet on Wednesday approved a revised cost estimate for a grid substation at Paradip (Ersama) to meet the rising power demand of upcoming industries in the Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR).The government had in 2020–21 cleared OPTCL’s proposal to set up a 400/220/33 kV grid substation at Paradip (Ersama) along with associated transmission lines at a cost of Rs 637.45 crore. Of this, 30% (Rs 191.23 crore) was to be infused by the state government as equity in OPTCL, while the remaining 70% (Rs 446.21 crore) was to be mobilised through loans.The cost has now been…

Namakkal: Electronic appliances in more than 100 houses at Agraharam in the Pallipalayam municipality conked out on Wednesday, owing to intermittent fluctuations in the power after electric poles were damaged in the two-day thunderstorms in the area.Residents of the area held a demonstration against Electricity Board (EB)officials, including assistant engineer Ramadurai, when they came to inspect the snapped power lines, demanding compensation for the losses.There are more than 500 houses in Agraharam, where many families of power loom workers live. For the past two days, thunderstorms lashed Pallipalayam in the evenings.”During the rainfall and strong winds, electric wires tangled with…

Traffic police have impounded a motorcycle after discovering a staggering 81 pending traffic challans carrying a cumulative penalty of Rs 11.9 lakh during a special enforcement drive in the city Gurgaon: A motorcycle with pending traffic challans worth a staggering Rs 11.9 lakh was impounded during an enforcement drive. Officials on Tuesday found 81 unpaid fines linked to the vehicle.The action was taken during checks near Agrasen Chowk, where SI Sudesh and his team stopped the motorcycle bearing registration number HR 32 C 8885 for inspection. During verification, police found 81 challans pending against the vehicle under various provisions of…