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GURUGRAM: He had his plans sorted. Deputy superintendent of police Surender Singh Bishnoi (57), who was due to retire in four months, was planning to visit his son and grandchildren settled in Canada. Originally from Sarangpur village in Hisar, Singh had joined the police service as an assistant sub-inspector in 1994. On Tuesday, he was mowed down by a dumper carrying stones from an illegal mining site in the Aravalis when he intercepted the vehicle and asked the driver to stop at Pachgaon village of Nuh. Inspector Dharam Singh recalled his three months with the “jovial” man at the Tauru…

MUMBAI: A day after he resigned from his post as Shiv Sena leader, was expelled from the party by the Uddhav Thackeray faction and then re-appointed a leader by the Eknath Shinde camp, Ramdas Kadam in an emotive outburst slammed the Shiv Sena leadership and said that no one from Matoshree had taken the trouble to call him even once before expelling him. Kadam hit out at party chief Thackeray’s son, Aaditya, saying the young politician should keep in mind his own age when saying things about his MLAs. Kadam, who was the environment minister in the state from 2014…

BENGALURU: In one of the longest aeromedical evacuations to India in recent times, a 67-year-old Bengaluru woman with critical cardiac condition was flown from Portland in the United States to Chennai on a 26-hour air ambulance flight through Iceland and Turkey that arrived in India early Tuesday. The airlift cost $133,000 (a little over Rs 1 crore) and involved two super-midsized private jets in as many legs, taking into consideration the condition of the patient, who is now being prepared for a heart surgery. The patient, who could be only identified as a resident of Indiranagar, was known to be…

Karnataka high court (file photo)BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court recently granted divorce to a Bengaluru woman, holding that her husband had treated her like a cash cow and had no emotional attachment towards her and that these alone were sufficient grounds for cruelty. The woman had challenged the June 22, 2020, order of the family court, Bengaluru Rural district, wherein her application seeking dissolution of marriage on ground of cruelty was dismissed, despite the same being heard and decided ex-parte. Allowing the appeal filed by the woman, a division bench headed by Justice Alok Aradhe has noted that the statement…

MUMBAI: Amidst the power shift in Maharashtra and speculation about reallocation of portfolios, someone tried to pull a fast one on a legislator. The Mumbai crime branch has nabbed four persons who offered a Daund-based MLA a cabinet post in the state for Rs 100 crore. Based on the complaint by Rahul Kul, a former Rashtriya Samaj Paksha MLA who won the 2019 election on a BJP ticket, the Anti-Extortion Cell arrested them. According to police, Kul’s personal assistant Balkrishna Thorat received a call on July 16 from a man who identified himself as Riyaz Shaikh. Riyaz said he wanted…

HYDERABAD: Digital loan sharks pushed another man to suicide with their intimidating tactics of securing confidential client data and circulating defamatory messages or their morphed photographs online. A 33-year-old fireman with Telangana Disaster Response and Fire Services flung himself before a speeding train early Tuesday and his mutilated body was recovered from the tracks between Shivarampally and Shastripuram railway stations. Police inquiry pointed to harassment by loan app operators in what could be the third suicide in a fortnight in the two Telugu states. Earlier, a 25-year-old colliery employee and resident of Godavarikhani too tossed himself before a train after…

THE TIMES OF INDIA | Jul 20, 2022, 15:22:48 ISTSri Lanka Crisis News LIVE Updates: Sri Lanka lawmakers elected six-time former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as president, a choice that reignited protests. Protesters gathered outside the Presidential Secretariat soon after Wickemshinge was elected as president. Stay with TOI for all the latest updatesRead Less

MUMBAI: Close to 17 million flyers passed through Mumbai airport in the first half of this year-a 132% jump in passenger traffic as compared to the first six months of 2021, said Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) on Tuesday. International passenger traffic has been on a steady rise as well, with the airport handling 3.5 million passengers between January and June, a jump of 97 % as compared to the previous year. The busiest month for travel since the Covid-19 outbreak was May when summer vacations had around 4 million passengers arrive or depart through the city airport. The highest…

BIKANER: A Pakistani national, who was apprehended by the Border Security Force (BSF) from the Hindumalkot border outpost in Sriganganagar district of Rajasthan around 11pm on July 16, has confessed that he crossed the international border with the intention to kill suspended BJP national spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her alleged controversial remarks about Prophet Muhammad. “The 24-year-old Pakistani national has been identified as Rizwan Ashraf (24), a resident of Kuthiyal Shekha locality of Punjab province in Pakistan,” Sriganganagar SP Anand Sharma said on Tuesday. Sharma said that the intruder was found by a BSF patrol under suspicious circumstances. The BSF…

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