Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], September 6 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh Unite of New Pension Yojana Karamchari Mahasangh (NPYKM) is on a strike in Shimla to seek restoration of the Old Pension Scheme in the state.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], April 30 (ANI): Almost a week after 25-year old V Vignesh allegedly died in police custody at a police station in Tamil Nadu's Chennai, his brother on Saturday accused the police of offering a bribe of Rs 1 lakh to his family to keep mum over the death.
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): Supreme Court will be hearing the case of capital punishment of three convicted for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old girl in Delhi's Chhawala on Thursday.
Ahmedabad Mar 30 PTI Police have launched a search for a man after his wife two teenage children and another relative were found dead inside their locked house here in Gujarat an official said on Wednesday The semi-decomposed bodies of Sonalben Gaekwad 37 her son Ganesh 17 daughter Pragati 15 and Sonalbens grandmother Subhadraben were found on Tuesday night in their house in Odhav locality of Ahmedabad It is suspected that they were stabbed to death a few days back the official said The incident came to light after Sonalbens mother Sanjuben approached the police saying she was not able to contact her daughter on phone and that the latters house was locked from outside Sonalbens husband Vinod Gaekwad is the main suspect in the case and efforts are on to nab him Deputy Commissioner of Police Achal Tyagi told reporters The suspect had called up his mother at his native place in Maharashtra to say that someone attacked his family and he escaped There is no evidence of an attack from outside It appears he told a lie to mislead everyone the official said Five police teams have been formed to investigate the case and gather evidence he said The police were also questioning Sanjuben Vinod had allegedly attacked her with a knife a few days ago over a property dispute the official said Vinod was angry as his mother-in-law had refused to transfer her house in her daughters name he said He used to have frequent fights with his wife after getting drunk But these are not enough reasons to kill his children the official said adding that at this stage they cannot rule out involvement of another person along with Vinod in the crime The suspects mother-in-law was in touch with him He misled her by saying that his wife and other family members had gone for a birthday party and will be back soon he said The suspects wife had invited her grandmother to their house and the latter was also among those found killed the police added PTI KA GK GK
Rameswaram (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 29 (ANI): The Sri Lankan Navy has apprehended four Rameswaram-based fishermen in Ramanathapuram district and their one boat on Monday, as 523 mechanised boats went out to the sea while fishing near Delft Island in the morning.
Kolkata Nov 27 PTI Kolkata Police have arrested notorious gangster Sheikh Vinod for his alleged involvement in a Rs 45 lakh bank fraud case an officer said on Saturday Vinod was arrested from Kharagpur town on Friday the officer said Earlier sleuths of Kolkata Polices bank fraud section have arrested 11 persons in connection with their investigation into the matter he added According to police the fraud took place in the branch of a nationalised bank in the citys CIT Road area where one outsourced staff helped Vinod and his associates in the crime Vinod was earlier arrested by police in August in a fake call centre case PTI SCH RG RG
Thane Oct 31 PTI An octogenarian woman and her elderly son and daughter allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in their flat in Vashi in Navi Mumbai police said on Sunday The three identified as Mohini Kamwani 87 her son Dileep 67 and daughter Kanta 65 were reportedly in a financial crisis an official said We got a call on Saturday morning about three people from a family being in distress We rushed them to a nearby hospital where they died one after the other through the day No suicide note was found in the flat Vashi police station senior inspector Pramod Todarmal said The official said Mohini was the widow of freedom fighter Narandas Kamwani an associate of Mahatma Gandhi while her children Dileep and Kanta were unmarried Vinod Gangwal an advocate who had represented the family in some court cases said the cause of the extreme step may be something more than a financial crisis as they had also initiated a legal battle against the police in one matter The police were penalised by the court for lapses The email account of Dileep must be checked by an independent agency to know why they took this step he claimed PTI COR BNM BNM BNM
Thiruvananthapuram Oct 27 PTI As many as 41 pregnant women have so far succumbed to COVID-19 in Kerala after the virus infection broke out in the southern state one and half years ago state Health Minister Veena George said here on Wednesday The number of the COVID positive persons who had committed suicide in the state stood at 149 she told the state Assembly during the question hour The minister was replying to a question in this regard raised by Congress legislator T J Vinod As per the figures reported from the districts 41 pregnant women have succumbed to the disease in the state Besides 149 patients affected with the viral infection have committed suicide George said Responding to another query by Mathew Kuzhalnadan Congress she said as per the reports there seems to be no difference in the findings of the recent sero prevalence scientific study conducted by the state health department and the similar surveys by the ICMR According to the ICMR study report the sero positivity rate in Kerala was 033 per cent 088 per cent and 116 per cent in May August and December in 2020 respectively and 444 per cent in May 2021 the minister noted It has risen to 8261 per cent when the state conducted the sero prevalence study during the August-September this year The increase in the sero positivity rate in the state was expected and it could be attributed to the progress in vaccination and the lifestyle of people she said adding that it was the reflection of the effective COVID management initiatives of the state government The findings of the state study indicated that a larger section of the population in the state have attained the resistance power against the pandemic It also pointed out that 17 per cent of the total population was still prone to the disease George said The highest sero prevalence rate among various categories of people who have received two doses of vaccine was found among the coastal people-933 per cent the minister added quoting the survey PTI LGK ROH ROH
Tokyo [Japan], August 22 (ANI): Indian discus thrower Vinod Kumar has been reclassified in the T/F52 category rasing hope of a medal in the said category for the country at the Tokyo Paralympics.