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JJ Fine Arts students skip classes, protest lack of teachers, facilities

Close to 500 undergraduate and postgraduate fine arts students from JJ School of Art have taken their class and practical work outside their classrooms, on their campus grounds, to mark their protest against non-availability of teachers and basic infrastructural facilities, including hostels, girls’ toilets and well-equipped studios.

Now, road in Worli to be shut for works

Traffic movement from Senapati Bapat road and SS Amrutrao Road towards Worli Naka shall be diverted through Dainik Shivneri Road-Dr E Moses Road towards Worli Naka.

‘Might have dumped some body parts on way to work in Gurgaon’

A Delhi police team travelled to Gurgaon on Friday to record statements from the employers and colleagues of Aaftab Poonawala, who strangled his partner and chopped her body for disposal before being arrested six months after the crime.

Delhi police in Vasai, record friend’s statement, seek past assault details

For the first time since Aaftab Poonawala’s arrest in Mehrauli on charges of murdering and disposing the body parts of his live-in-partner Shraddha Walkar on November 12, a Delhi police team on Friday arrived in Vasai in connection with the case.

He was on drugs; chats show victim wished to break off with him: Cops

Did Aftab Poonawala kill Shraddha Walkar for fear of being exposed? Delhi police are trying to ascertain, by scanning chat records and other phone details, whether this was why Aaftab strangled Shraddha and dismembered her body.

‘Statement of injured BPO staffer crucial’

The grievously injured 24year-old BPO employee’s statement will be crucial in nailing her boyfriend who allegedly pushed her off an 18foot-high water tank on the 15th floor of La Belleza building in Dahisar (East) this past Sunday, said the police.

Qatar bans sale of beer at World Cup stadiums

Qatar banned the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums on Friday, a sudden U-turn on the deal it made to secure the soccer tournament—only two days before the opening game.

Hyd startup launches India’s first pvt rocket

Hyderabad-based space tech startup Skyroot Aerospace created history Friday when it successfully launched India’s first privately built launch vehicle, Vikram-S, into suborbital space.

2 kids drown in Worli, 3 rescued in nick of time

Two children drowned, while three others were rescued after they ventured into the sea near Worli Koliwada around 3 pm Friday. Even as a 79-year-old fisherman managed to rescue one of the kids, the other two were rescued by the parent accompanying them. His ward was one of the kids that drowned.

Max tenure for PSU bank chiefs doubled to 10 yrs

The government has doubled the maximum term for chiefs of public sector banks to 10 years from 5 years earlier by amending the Nationalised Banks Scheme, 1970. The notification, which applies to executive directors and MDs, allows for a term of five years, extendable for another five years. The retirement age remains same.

Six dead, 4 hurt as SUV crashes into trailer on Mum-Pune eway

Six people died and four others were injured after their SUV crashed into a moving trailer ahead of it near Khopoli along the Mumbai-Pune expressway at 11.30pm Thursday.

Shraddha went to cops in Nov 2020

Shraddha went to police in Nalasopara in Nov 2020 to complain about violence by Poonawala. She was asked to get medical test done. She, however, changed her mind

Packet with Shraddha's head found in Ggn? Aaftab says cut body into 18 pieces

The police team probing Shraddha Walkar’s murder recovered a packet that could be the missing head of the victim. It was highly decomposed and has been sent for forensic examination.

World Cup fallout: BCCI sacks men’s selection panel

BCCI on Friday decided to sack all four senior men’s national selectors—Chetan Sharma, Debasis Mohanty, Harvinder Singh and Sunil Joshi—following a disappointing T20 World Cup campaign.

C’garh fights ED over choice of SC bench to hear PDS case

The ED plea seeks transfer of the trial outside the state, alleging many witnesses turned hostile after grant of anticipatory bail by HC to accused Anil Tuteja and Alok Shukla, who are close to the state government.

HC Questions NIAs Claim Of Terror Links, Gives Bail On Merit To Teltumbde

Milind was killed in an encounter with security forces in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli last November.

Can't ascribe motive to judge, says SC, issues contempt notice

Observing that judges are not infallible and can pass wrong judgements that can be corrected, the SC on Friday said that this does not allow parties to attribute motive to a judge, adding it will not tolerate parties scandalising the court.

SC slams NIA, asks it to shift jailed Naviakha to house arrest in 24 hrs

Warns It Not To Seek Loopholes To 'Defy Our Orders’

Cow attacks rescuers to 'free’ monkey friend

The rescuers lured it with food and captured him with a butterfly net. Just at that moment, a cow came charging at the team.

Woman’s body wrapped in plastic, Stuffed in bag near Yamuna e-way

At a time when Delhi’s Shraddha Walkar murder case has shocked the country, the body of a woman, in her early 20s, was found wrapped in plastic and stuffed inside a red trolley bag on the service lane near the busy Yamuna expressway in Mathura on Friday morning.

In last 21 years, 22 of 74 chopper accidents fatal

In the past 21 years, 74 helicopter accidents took place in India, out of which 22 were fatal ones.

300 schoolkids made to attend Dera chief's e-satsang, probe on

Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) in UP’s Shahjahanpur has ordered a probe after a clip showing over 300 children in school uniform—who were with their teachers—attending an online satsang of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, a murder and rape convict, was widely circulated on social media.

3rd cheetah moved to hunting enclosure at Kuno

Almost 12 days after cheetahs ‘Elton and Freddie’ were released into a larger enclosure at Kuno National Park as stage-II of their familiarisation with the new habitat, a third male named Oban was released on Friday.

Women secure 2nd, 3rd ranks in NDA, Naval Academy finals

Two women candidates have secured the second and third ranks in the final results for the tri-Service National Defence Academy (NDA) and the Naval Academy after the written examination and subsequent interviews conducted by the Services Selection Board (SSB) this year.

12 killed, 5 hurt as truck falls into gorge in Uttarakhand

Twelve people, including two women, were killed and five others injured after a pickup vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a 700m-deep gorge on Dumak Road in Palla Jakhol village of Chamoli district on Friday evening.

Airfares for popular year-end destinations soar on demand

After two straight years of damp squib New Year eves, revellers have started putting party plans into action as sky-high airfares for yearend travel to popular destinations such as Goa, Dubai, Singapore have indicated that third time’s going to be a charm.

Court disagrees with NIA on Teltumbde role in Elgar plot

Teltumbde surrendered on April 14, 2020, on SC orders and was taken into custody.

EOW seeks to probe firms linked to Ajit Pawar in co-op bank scam

Mumbai police Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has sought permission to investigate companies linked to leader of opposition Ajit Pawar and his MLA nephew Rohit Pawar in the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam, saying the companies had acquired sick sugar mills via auctions through suspicious transactions.

HC pulls up BMC over hawkers, says 'not one walkable road' in city

Observing that it is “disgraceful” that Mumbai’s roads have no space for walking, the Bombay high court on Friday slammed the BMC for making it a city for motorists, and not pedestrians.

'It's a big deal that Miss India pageant is coming to Manipur'

I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT: ZUCHOBENI TÜNGOE, FEMINA MISS INDIA NAGALAND 2020