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The suspects usually targeted their victims on Bullet motorcycles. The three arrested accused included a goldsmith who used to buy the snatched items from the gang. The accused were identified as Shubham, a resident of Nainital and the leader of the gang, his henchman Ajay, a resident of Bihar, and goldsmith Nav Kumar aka Swarn Kumar, a native of West Bengal. According to the police, they had been receiving complaints of chain snatching for the last one and half months with victims reporting that heavy-built youths coming on a Bullet in the East Zone committed the crime. “The gang used…

Both Rakesh and Subham were students of Gandamunda High School.“Subham along with three other friends left home after returning from tuition. Few hours later, someone informed me that Subham was rescued from a pond at Pokhariput. I immediately reached the hospital but found him dead,” said a relative of Subham.Meanwhile, a local claimed that the deceased students and their friends had gone to the pond to take a bath. He said that Rakesh and Subham first dived in the pond. They might have stuck in the marshy bottom and failed to pull out of the water.The students were later fished…

“From bolstering digital public infrastructure and innovative capacity-building, to strengthening the existing supply chains and addressing the debt crisis – India is setting an example for many UN Member States from the Global South,” he said on Saturday at the India-UN for Global South event on the sidelines of the United Nations High-Level General Assembly session.India successfully landing the Chandrayaan on the South Pole of the moon was an inspiration for all countries on what they can achieve when they have access to science.India’s pioneering endeavours benefit the entire South, he added.”India’s recent G20 Presidency marked a historic milestone, being…

Coming to bat at No.6, Suryakumar raced to a half-century off 24 balls, scoring 72 runs off 37 balls, and stayed unbeaten. On the back of his knock, laced with six fours and as many sixes, India scored 399 for the loss of five wickets after being put in to bat first.“He is completely unique. I have never seen a player hit the ball to the areas he hits it. His real skill is to hit the ball where there is no fielder. That sounds simple, but that needs skills. He can manipulate the field and find the gaps,” Waugh…

Permanent Invitee of Congress Working Committee Girish Chodankar has asked the Chief Minister to prove that BJP is committed to give ‘Sanman’ to women.“There is no need for any census or delimitation process needed for these women legislator to be inducted in the cabinet. The Chief Minister can very well decide on it and reshuffle the cabinet,” Chodankar, former Chief of Goa Congress, said.He was reacting to the statement of Pramod Sawant that the BJP government under the leadership of Narendra Modi is giving ‘Sanman’ to women by way of ‘women’s reservation’ and 13 seats will be reserved for women…

The Indians failed to capitalise on a 1-0 advantage at half-time — thanks to a goal scored by talismanic skipper Sunil Chhetri in the 23rd minute — as they allowed Myanmar to score in the 74th minute through Kyaw Yan to level the scores. That’s how things remained at the final whistle, the two teams thus getting one point each.Both India and Myanmar had an identical one win and one defeat going into Sunday’s last league encounter in the four-team Pool A. Both had 3 points each and an identical goal difference of -3. The Indians were in second place…

Sarma asserted that the state government is coming up with new act to ‘protect’ the “Batadrava Thaan”.He said soon a law would be enacted to prevent sale and purchase of land within the 8-km range of “Batadrava Thaan” premises to “non-indigenous” communities.”The District Commissioner has been instructed not to give his assent to sale-purchase of land to and by people belonging to non-indigenous communities till the Act is brought in and implemented,” Sarma added.Sankardev was born at Alipukhuri near Bordowa in present-day Nagaon district and the “Batadrava Thaan” is also located at this place. Therefore, the importance of this place…

“As I have said, we (Salim and Javed) were influenced by Sergio Leone. But ‘Sholay’ was not based on his epic film. Critics also said ‘Zanjeer’ was based on ‘Dirty Harry’,” Akhtar writes in the recently released book, ‘Talking Life: Javed Akthar in Conversation with Nasreen Munni Kabir’.He points out that ‘Dirty Harry’ was released in December 1971 and ‘Zanjeer’ in May 1973. It would have been impossible for them in those pre-Google days to have written the screenplay (inspired by ‘Dirty Harry’), and then have the film shot, edited and released in such little time.”It is all rubbish. No…

The 21-year-old singer — stage name CassMae and Cassidy — had given two extremely melodic vocal performances of the songs ‘Jagat Jaana Palam’ and ‘Shiva Panchakshara Strotam’ which led to the PM greatly praising her.The Prime Minister played the renditions of these tracks sung by Cassandra Mae and said: “Such a melodious voice…and every word reflects emotions. We can also feel her attachment to God. You would be surprised to know that this voice is of a daughter from Germany.“Her name is CassMae. 21-year-old Cassmae on Instagram is quite famous these days. German national Cassmae has never visited India. But,…

Indore, Sep 24 (IANS) Since returning to Indian team from a back injury in March, plus back spasms in Asia Cup, Shreyas Iyer made a resounding statement by top-scoring with 105, his first ODI century of the year, as India posted a mammoth 399/5 against Australia in the second ODI in Indore on Sunday.Iyer, who was run out for three after a mix-up with Gill in the series opener in Mohali, brushed aside question marks over his form and fitness by making a sparkling 105 off 90 balls, with the help of 11 fours and three sixes. Iyer’s timely hundred…