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A speeding Jaguar ploughed into a crowd on a flyover near the ISKCON temple in the early hours of Thursday, killing nine persons and injuring at least 13 others. The car was being driven by a college student.The student has been identified as Tathya Pragnesh Patel, who is the son of a wealthy builder — Pragnesh Patel, and is in the second year of college.CM Patel on Thursday convened a high-level meeting in Gandhinagar to address the situation following the accident.”He ordered immediate stringent legal action, detention, and an impartial investigation against those responsible for this tragedy,” an official said.Consequently,…

The matter will be heard again on July 24 and till that time the central agencies will not be able to take action against Banerjee. While granting the interim protection, a single-judge bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, verbally observed that the central agencies will be able to take action against Banerjee in the event that their investigating officials have solid evidence as regards to financial defalcation against him. Recently, Abhishek Banerjee moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court order allowing central agencies to summon him in relation to the school job case. However, a division bench of Chief…

The bridge is located at Rahimpur village over the Burhi Gandak river on the four lane National Highway 31 which connects Patna via Begusarai.The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has blocked the affected section of the bridge and diverted the traffic to the other side of the bridge. Due to the deterioration concrete slabs are falling into the river. The local commuters claim that low quality construction materials were used and hence the deteriorating condition of the bridge within three months of its opening.The NHAI had given the contract to Punj Lloyd construction company which had built the bridge…

Port of Spain, July 20 (IANS) West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite won the toss and elected to bowl first against India in the second Test of the two-game series at Queen’s Park Oval, here on Thursday. Left-handed top-order batter Kirk McKenzie and right-arm seamer Mukesh Kumar are making their Test debuts for West Indies and India respectively. It is the 100th Test between West Indies and India, which coincides with Virat Kohli playing his 500th international match.After winning the toss, Brathwaite said pacer Shannon Gabriel also comes back in the playing eleven, with no place for Raymon Reifer and Rahkeem…

New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The sales of fast charging-based (over 10 watts) smartphones accounted for almost 80 per cent of the global smartphone market in the first quarter (Q2) of 2023, compared to 74 per cent in Q1 2022 and 29 per cent in Q1 2018, a new report showed on Thursday.According to Counterpoint Research, the increasing adoption of fast charging-capable smartphones is attributed to growing smartphone usage and continuous advancements in hardware. Chinese smartphone brands are leading this trend by introducing higher-wattage charging across different price points. “Chinese brands are leveraging fast charging as a selling point to…

The arrested individual has been identified as Faizan Ansari a.k.a. Faiz.The searches at his house in Lohardaga district of Jharkhand and rented accommodation in Aligarh, were conducted on July 16 and 17.During the searches, several electronic devices, incriminating materials and documents were seized.Faizan had allegedly hatched a criminal conspiracy, along with his associates and other unknown individuals, through social media platforms to support IS activities in India and disseminate the outfit’s propaganda across various social media platforms.The conspiracy was aimed at carrying out violent terror attacks in India on behalf of IS.”Investigations have revealed that Faizan and his associates had…

According to the police, on Wednesday around 7: 27 p.m a police control room (PCR) call was received in Paschim Vihar West police station regarding the death of a girl after being cut by a kite string while she was riding on a motorcycle being driven by her father.“The information was received from Sri Balaji Action Hospital and the incident occurred in Guru Harkishan Nagar, Paschim Vihar,” said a senior police official.As per the initial probe, the deceased was sitting in the front, followed by her father , 13-year-old sister and mother.After the incident at Guru Harkishan Nagar the father…

Pradhan was serving as the Deputy Inspector General of the CBI. He will be replacing N. Venu Gopal, who has been transferred as the Joint Director of Hyderabad Zone. Pradhan has been appointed in the new chair for a period of five years.Venu Gopal became the Joint Director of CBI’s Kolkata Zone in June last year, replacing his predecessor Pankaj Srivastava. However, his replacement by Pradhan just within a year has now led to conjectures that the move has been made to accelerate the pace of the investigation into the coal and cattle smuggling cases.Already a number of heavyweight leaders…

Setting up the table for more heat packed emotional drama, contestants Manisha and Abhishek take pot shots at each other as they engage in a fiery argument over the bed issue.On the night before, Abhishek refused to change beds, and Manisha firmly believes he took the wrong stand. However, Abhishek will dismiss the matter, stating it’s a trivial issue and will advise not to blow it out of proportion with unnecessary arguments.Unfortunately for Abhishek, this will not get buried under the hatchet and rather than putting dirt over what was a trivial matter, Manisha will be seen fuming with anger…

A bench, headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and Manoj Misra, expressed its concern over the “headless” institution. “It is sad no one cares about the institution,” remarked Justice Narasimha. The top court indicated that it will temporarily appoint someone on pro tem basis to felicitate functioning of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) till disposal of the case. “We went there (to Lt Governor) with three names..and two additional names but we could not agree,” submitted senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who represented Delhi government. On the other hand, senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Lt…