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Nagpur: Allowing a petition filed by a 25-year-old man from Bhandara, Nagpur bench of Bombay high court recently directed superintendent of Govt Priyadarshini Women’s Hostel here to hand over custody of his 18-year-old wife to him after observing she has attained adulthood and willingly wants to stay with the petitioner.A division bench comprising Justices Urmila Joshi-Phalke and Nivedita Mehta ruled that her continued custody away from him could not be sustained in a habeas corpus proceeding. The man had alleged his wife was illegally detained after being placed in the hostel.The case arose from an FIR lodged by the woman’s…

BJP MPs protest on the Parliament premises over alleged irregularities in recruitment exams in Jharkhand, in New Delhi on Wednesday Ranchi: BJP MPs from Jharkhand on Wednesday staged a protest near Parliament’s Makar Dwar over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations, accusing JMM-led alliance govt in the state of adopting “double standards” on issues concerning students and job aspirants.Holding placards and raising slogans against Hemant Soren govt, the MPs sought accountability for alleged recruitment scams and paper leaks. The protest was led by BJP’s Jharkhand unit president and Rajya Sabha MP Aditya Sahu.Sahu alleged that Congress leaders had raised students’ concerns…

Varanasi: The cyber crime police arrested five members of an interstate cyber fraud racket that allegedly lured economically weak people into opening bank accounts in their names and used them as mule accounts for cyber criminals.DCP (Crime) Neetu Kadian said on Wednesday that the accused were identified as Adarsh Chaube of Mirzapur, Ashish Yadav of Azamgarh, Sujal Singh of Muzaffarnagar, Piyush Singh of Mau and Yuvraj Verma of Varanasi.According to police, the gang targeted poor and financially vulnerable people by offering them money to open bank accounts. Once the accounts were opened, the accused allegedly took possession of the ATM…

Kolkata: Sambit Ghosh, a resident of Amherst Street, wants a digital copy of the birth certificate for his son so that he can produce it at the local police station for his son’s passport. Though Ghosh has applied for the same through Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Chatbot, he is yet to receive a response from the civic body’s health department.“It is an endless wait for a digital copy of the birth certificate that has been made a mandatory document for passport renewal. After two months, I was told last week to wait till a state govt portal is activated,” complained…

Srinagar, July 29: The University of Kashmir (KU) has been accorded the prestigious Category-I status by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under the UGC (Categorisation of Universities for Grant of Graded Autonomy) Regulations, 2018.According to an official communication issued by the UGC Secretary, Prof Shyama Rath (D.O. No. 91-1/2024(SU-1)/142186), the decision was approved during the Commission’s 598th meeting held on July 6, 2026, making the University eligible for enhanced academic, administrative, and financial autonomy available to India’s top-performing higher education institutions.”The University shall now be eligible for all the benefits as stipulated under Clause 4, i.e., Dimensions of Autonomy for Category-I Universities,…

Great white sharks (Representative image) When Tropical Storm Hilary hit Southern California in August 2023, people on land were bracing for flooding, strong winds and record rainfall. Underwater, a group of young great white sharks off San Diego were reacting to the same storm in a very different way: they left their nursery habitat and moved into more sheltered waters before returning once conditions improved.A study from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach provides the first direct evidence of juvenile white sharks responding to an extreme weather event like…

Mumbai: Nearly 2.17 lakh engineering seats are up for grabs in 380 colleges in Maharashtra this year, with computer engineering accounting for the highest intake of 30,993 seats. The number of seats in computer-related courses such as IT, data science and artificial intelligence, put together, exceeds 50% of the total intake capacity in the state, showing the strong demand for these courses among students.The total number of seats have gone up from last year’s intake capacity of 2.03 lakh, showed data from the state’s CET cell. Around 2.45 lakh students who have registered for this year’s admission process will be…

New Delhi: Nine days after violence broke out during the student protests in Delhi on July 20, Vinita, a 25-year-old constable, lies in her bed, recovering from severe head trauma. Stitches line her scalp, where a brick hit her, while she was on crowd-control duty near Janpath Metro station.Posted with the social media cell in the DCP office of South East district, Vinita was deployed on the ground that afternoon along with her colleagues to manage a swelling throng. “Our primary mandate was crowd control and clearing the main road,” she tells TOI. “We were directing the protesters into the…

When Olympic silver medallist, world champion and India’s most decorated weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu stepped onto the podium in Glasgow after clinching her third consecutive Commonwealth Games gold, it wasn’t just another medal. It was the culmination of four years marked by injuries, setbacks, sacrifice and unwavering belief. From becoming India’s first gold medallist at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in the women’s 48kg weightlifting category with a total lift of 190kg to leading the Indian contingent as flag bearer, it has been a week to remember. In an exclusive conversation with Bangalore Times from Glasgow, Mirabai reflects on the emotional…

Hyderabad: The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission-I, Hyderabad, has held Southern Railway guilty of deficiency in service for failing to inform a passenger about a planned train diversion, resulting in a nearly 16-hour delay and causing him to miss a business meeting and a return flight.The commission partly allowed a complaint filed by T Ramakrishna against the general manager, Southern Railway, Chennai, and the chief commercial manager (passenger marketing), directing them to jointly pay Rs 25,000 compensation and Rs 10,000 towards litigation costs within 45 days.Ramakrishna had booked a reserved ticket on Train No 12621 Tamil Nadu Express from MGR…