Day: August 10, 2019

Man sentenced to life term for murder in Karnataka

Mangaluru, Aug 10: A court here has sentenced a 31-year-old man to life imprisonment for rape and murder of a woman in Dakshina Kannada district in the state. Judge of the Sixth Additional District and Sessions Court Syedunnisa on Friday sentenced the man for rape and murder of the […]

Krishna Chakraborty sworn in as Bidhannagar mayor

Kolkata, Aug 10: The chairman of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Krishna Chakraborty was sworn in as mayor of the corporation on Saturday. The post of mayor has been lying vacant after Sabyasachi Dutta, the first mayor of the corporation which was formed in 2015, resigned from the post on […]

Raj: Septuagenarian duped of Rs 70 lakh by woman

Jaipur, Aug 10: A 72-year-old man was allegedly duped of Rs 70 lakh by an unidentified woman on the pretext of offering him a business investment plan, police said on Saturday. The woman befriended the complainant– Satyavrat Sharma, a former school teacher, through Facebook and got the money deposited […]

Rains pound South India; Kerala worst hit with 42 dead

Chennai/Thiruvananthapuram/Bengaluru/ Aug 10: The flood situation in South India continued to remain grim on Saturday,with Kerala being the worst hit as rains,coupled with landslides left 42 dead and nearly 1.25 lakh people displaced. The monsoon fury continued unabated in Karnataka and in neighbouring Tamil Nadu, with the latter pressing […]

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