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MEERUT: A 25-year-old wedding caterer was beaten to death and his body set on fire by a teenage auto driver in Meerut after an argument over loud music. The auto driver allegedly assaulted Rohit Kumar with bricks and set his body on fire using engine oil in an attempt to conceal his identity, police said....

In a sweeping overhaul of America’s global footprint, President Donald Trump has authorised the withdrawal of US from 66 international organisations, marking one of the most significant retreats from multilateralism in modern history. The pullout is from all major climate-linked global bodies, including India-headquartered International Solar Alliance and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Though...

LUDHIANA: In another shocking incident coming in the wake of the discovery of a charred body, a 30-year-old resident of Bhora village was found murdered, his body cut into six pieces, inside a vacant plot near Jalandhar Bypass. The site of the gruesome discovery is barely three kilometres away from his house.His head was found...

NEW DELHI: Bomb threats were emailed to courts across India Thursday, sparking panic, mass evacuations and multi-state security sweeps before authorities declared them hoaxes. Messages claiming RDX-based IEDs and suicide attacks forced shutdowns in Odisha, Bihar, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, among others, paralysing judicial work.In Bhubaneswar, an email warned judges and...

LUCKNOW: Stirred by the deletion of 2.89 crore voters from Uttar Pradesh’s draft electoral roll following the SIR exercise, BJP’s state unit has decided to launch a campaign to trace the “absent” and “transferred” voters ahead of the 2027 assembly polls. The announcement comes in the wake of CM Yogi Adityanath’s assertion that the majority...

BAREILLY: A 19-year-old BCom student was set on fire just outside Hindu College here Thursday afternoon, shortly after completing an exam. Police said Aarush Singh, 21, a BA third-semester student, and Deepak Kumar, 20 who are from the same college allegedly hurled a flammable substance at Farhad Ali, causing serious burns on his thighs, reports...

Nagpur: A senior lecturer at a Maharashtra govt-run educational institute in Nagpur has been included for election duty on Jan 15, even though she has a chemotherapy session scheduled on that date, reports Abhishek Choudhari. The 56-year-old cancer patient’s college officially wrote to Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Dec 26, seeking cancellation of poll duty,...

KOLKATA: The street fighter in CM Mamata Banerjee, which always held her in good stead, was evident on Thursday as she walked into I-PAC chief Pratik Jain’s Loudon Street home and stepped out after a seven-minute stay, with a green folder alleging the ED was actually after her party candidate list, poll strategy documents, and...

LUCKNOW: Police have initiated attachment proceedings against absconding KGMU resident doctor Rameezuddin, accused of sexual exploitation, forced religious conversion and miscarriage by two women colleagues. Investigations have indicated he may have targeted more women, particularly those from the medical fraternity. Notices for attachment were pasted on Wednesday at three properties linked to him – a...

Maharashtra BJP president Ravindra Chavan received the councillors on Thursday MUMBAI: Despite reservations within BJP, the 12 councillors in Ambernath suspended by Congress for ‘anti-party activities’ joined the saffron party Thursday. State BJP chief Ravindra Chavan received the 12 councillors at a function, raising questions not only from opposition but also from within his own...