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NCP (SP) leader Anil Deshmukh was seriously injured after stones were hurled at his car in Nagpur district on Monday night, police said. The incident occurred around 8 pm when Deshmukh was returning to Katol after attending a meeting in Narkhed village. Some unidentified persons threw stones at Deshmukh's car near Belphata on the Jalalkheda Road near Katol. Deshmukh, who sustained injuries during the attack, was immediately rushed to the Katol Civil Hospital, police said. Nagpur Rural Superintendent of Police, Harssh Poddar, confirmed the incident. He said senior officers were rushed to the spot.

Their claim, filed on Friday (15 November), will join the original one filed in October 2022 on behalf of around 2,750 investors, taking the total number of HL claimants to more than 5,000, RGL said. The contention centres on Hargreaves Lansdown's continued promotion of the former Woodford Equity Income fund (WEIF), up until its suspension in 2019, even though the strategy was already facing diversification and liquidity issues. FCA completes all Woodford investigations but still no end in sight RGL added it plans to file on behalf of additional HL customers who were invested in th...

ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her close aides who face charges of crimes against humanity after hundreds of people were killed in a mass uprising this summer. Golam Mortuza Majumdar, the head judge of the three-member International Crimes Tribunal, set Dec 17 for investigators to finish their work, as the tribunal heard updates Monday from police about what the country's security agencies have done to arrest Hasina and her close aides. The decision came after prosecutors sought more time for the investigation. Hasina has been living in exile in India since Aug 5 when she fled the country amid the student-led protests. The Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal on Oct. 17 issued arrest warrants for Hasina and 45 others including former Cabinet ministers, advisors and military and civil officials. The country is now being run by an interim government headed by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.

Foxconn has ordered the hiring agents that help recruit iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age, gender and marital criteria as well as the manufacturer's name in job advertisements, according to three people familiar with the matter and almost a dozen ads reviewed by Reuters. The moves follow a Reuters investigation published June 25, which found that Foxconn excluded married women from jobs at its main India iPhone assembly plant, though it relaxed the practice during high-production periods. Foxconn, which employs thousands of women at the iPhone factory at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, outsources recruitment of assembly-line workers to third-party vendors. These agents scout for and screen candidates, who ultimately are interviewed and selected by Foxconn.

The aim is to find out if the ecommerce companies were exercising control over vendors. Under the rules, they can only act as platforms. ED is investigating alleged violations under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (Fema) that are ordinarily civil offences entailing monetary penalties. Earlier this month, the agency conducted nationwide searches at 19 sites related to large sellers on Amazon and Flipkart in New Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

The latest revelations, reported by The Daily Mail, offer insight into the events surrounding Payne’s final days, including his connection to 24-year-old Braian Nahuel Paiz, an Argentine waiter he met just weeks before his death. A Friendship and Alleged Drug Use

life on Mars during the Viking missions in the 1970s, according to Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Technische Universität Berlin in Germany. In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 mission deployed two spacecraft to the Martian surface to to investigate the Red Planet and search for signs of life. These experiments involved mixing water and nutrients with soil samples collected from Mars, based on the assumption that life would require liquid water to survive—similar to life on Earth. Initial results hinted at the possibility of life, but after decades of debate, most researchers concluded that the findings were likely false positives.

Vande Bharat Express from Tirunelveli to Chennai Egmore raised a complaint after discovering an insect in the sambar served during breakfast. The incident took place on Saturday, shortly after the train departed from Madurai.

Pentagon has released a fresh report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), commonly referred to as UFOs. While it details hundreds of new incidents, the report does not provide any proof of extraterrestrial origins. Compiled by the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the review examines cases involving objects ranging from misidentified balloons and drones to more mysterious sightings. One notable case involved a near-miss between a commercial aeroplane and an unidentified object off New York’s coast.

Samajwadi Party MP Awadhesh Prasad alleged that the hospital fire in Jhansi that claimed the lives of 10 newborns was a result of the state government's incompetency. Speaking to ANI, Prasad offered his condolences and said the incident was «very sad and heart-rending.» «It is a very sad and heart-rending incident. This incident happened due to the result of incompetency of the government. Now we demand from the government to investigate the whole incident and take action,» he said.

It was not just Uikey, though. Between May and November so far, India received about 900 threatening messages, including 600 posted on X, according to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which is in charge of security at commercial airports. These threats were all directed at airlines. Sources in the industry say in the past two months alone, over 1,000 flights—domestic and foreign— were delayed due to threatening calls, texts and social media posts that turned out to be fake. The losses that the airlines ran up due to this during the period could amount to about Rs 500 crore.

central government is necessary. The ruling from the High Court came while disposing of a plea seeking quashing of criminal proceedings against an Indian company for conducting a survey in Thiruvananthapuram in 2010, which according to the police was aimed at «injuring the emotional feelings of the Muslim community». The survey was conducted by the Indian company — Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) PLC-- for US-based Princeton Survey Research Associates (PSRA). Rejecting the Indian company's plea to quash the criminal proceedings against it, Justice P V Kunhikrishnan said that if such surveys were allowed to continue, they «will affect the security of our country and importantly religious harmony». «The central government should take it very seriously, and if there is any intention to topple the integrity of our country by conducting such surveys, appropriate steps should be taken in accordance with the law,» the High Court said in its order of November 4. It also noted that in the instant matter, there was no sanction from the central government for conducting such a survey.

Jaipal Yadav appeared before the Hyderabad police on Saturday, following a summon related to the phone-tapping investigation. He is the second ex-MLA to be questioned about allegations of illegal phone interceptions during the previous BRS regime. After the interrogation, Yadav told reporters that he received a notice for sharing phone numbers with a police official involved in the case and confirmed that he had answered to the queries. This comes after another former BRS MLA, Chirumarthi Lingaiah, was questioned on November 14.

Seema, a housewife who has been grieving for her twins lost in the blaze at the neonatal hospital, said that official apathy led to the incident. «I don't want to recall the incident in which I lost my two children. It was not the fault of just one person. It was the fault of the whole administration and there (Jhansi) also the same must have happened,» Seema said, adding such incidents will keep happening till it is rectified.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “IT WAS RETRO style," laughs Ruta Kaziliunaite, the co-ordinator of Lithuania’s Special Investigation Service (STT), the country’s anti-corruption police. Last November the former leader of the Liberal Movement party was convicted of taking bribes from an executive at MG Baltic, a trading and real-estate conglomerate.

Delhi-Lucknow Highway in Hapur district, Uttar Pradesh. The suitcase was discovered by commuters on the service road, leading to a swift response from the authorities. Upon unzipping the suitcase, police found the body of a woman, believed to be between 25 and 30 years old, with visible injury marks. Social media, particularly X (formerly Twitter), was flooded with images of the grisly discovery, sparking public shock and concern. As reported by NDTV, a police team, along with forensic experts, reached the scene promptly. The area was cordoned off while investigators examined the suitcase, which also contained a few articles of clothing.

Thrissur police is investigating a scammer who accidentally called a police officer, posing as a cop from Mumbai. The scammer claimed the recipient was involved in a major cybercrime, with their Aadhaar number linked to illegal activities on the «dark net.»

Donald Trump's most controversial cabinet picks just became even more so: Pete Hegseth, tapped for defense secretary earlier this week, was accused of sexual assault in 2017, according to police. No charges were filed in the case, but shocked Trump transition team officials are nonetheless reportedly weighing next steps for the Fox News host, whose nomination took many in Washington by surprise. President-elect Trump nominated the 44-year-old National Guard veteran on Tuesday to run the world's most powerful military, despite having never managed a large organization.

Tulsi Gabbard is being deemed as a 'threat to national security', according to former national security adviser, John Bolton, who has also warned about her deep ties with Russia, according to reports. Bolton is of the view that Gabbard or Matt Gaetz ought to have a confirmation hearing until they have both had full-field FBI investigations to skim through every single detail of their lives, so that any hint of scandal or threat to national security can be detected. According to Bolton, Americans may have 'lost their minds' when it comes to collecting national intelligence. after Gabbard was chosen as the director of national intelligence. Bolton also said that Gabbard and Gaetz are the two worst Cabinet appointments in recent history, according to The Hill's report. Bolton has even stated that until Trump had announced his own pick of Cabinet members, he was considering the current set of Cabinet members to be the worst of the entire lot across Presidential history under the Biden administration.