1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (555+ words) The Delhi government has amended the Fire Service Rules, introducing a comprehensive set of minimum fire prevention and safety standards for buildings, including provisions for fire and smoke barriers, encroachment-free access, emergency power and dedicated fire control rooms. The new…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (147+ words) The Kolkata Police on Saturday registered a suo motu FIR against former West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee for alleged violation of Calcutta High Court-imposed conditions for holding a TMCP foundation day event here. The FIR…...

2+ hour, 18+ min ago   (230+ words) A 26-year-old female NEET-PG aspirant allegedly died by suicide here on Saturday, a day before appearing for the examination, police said. The deceased, a native of Andhra Pradesh, who had completed her MBBS, ended her life by consuming an unknown…...

9+ hour, 27+ min ago   (291+ words) The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the CBI to submit a report on the involvement of certain persons in an alleged conspiracy in the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital here....

2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (173+ words) A Delhi court on Saturday adjourned the framing of charges against Lalu Prasad Yadav and others in the ED's land-for-job and IRCTC scam cases. Special Judge Vishal Gogne adjourned the Enforcement Directorate (ED) land case to September 30 and the IRCTC…...

5+ hour, 40+ min ago   (401+ words) A Delhi court has acquitted three men of an attempt to murder charge in a 2018 stabbing case, ruling that the prosecution failed to establish beyond reasonable doubt that they shared an intention to kill the victim. However, the court convicted…...

8+ hour, 1+ min ago   (149+ words) Daily Pioneer Former Ecuador president Lenin Moreno sentenced to 5 years for bribery Former Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday after a court found him guilty of accepting bribes from a Chinese company in…...

7+ hour, 18+ min ago   (352+ words) A government school teacher in Usilampatti in this district has been booked for abetment after a Dalit girl seeking admission in the institution died by suicide due to alleged humiliation at the hands of the accused. The HM also allegedly…...

8+ hour, 50+ min ago   (311+ words) A day after 28-year-old Rajesh died following a sudden deterioration in his health while in police custody, authorities registered a murder case against his maternal cousin Raghuveer and others based on a complaint filed by Rajesh’s brother. Rajesh had been…...

17+ hour, 47+ min ago   (483+ words) Daily Pioneer Drone drops used to push guns, drugs into Punjab Punjab Police have busted two smuggling networks that had been supplying weapons and narcotics into the state and were using drones to transport their cargo across the international border....