Mehmood Alam

Two years after the UP police and Delhi crime branch seized 133 quintals of red and white sandalwood from a godown in UP's Amroha, cops attached property worth Rs 33.5 lakh of the sandalwood mafia Mehmood Alam Ansari. Amroha superintendent of police Aditya Langeh said the action was taken under section 14(1) of Gangster Act.

Doctors think Zishan has little chance of surviving, but his parents are not giving up on him despite finding it difficult to pay his medical bills. So far, his family has only been able to pay off Rs 1 lakh 75 thousand of the the Rs 4 lakhs that his treatment costs.

PATNA: The polling for the election of the President of India passed off peacefully in the state legislative assembly building here on Monday with as many as 234 of the 243 MLAs casting their votes.

KOLKATA: Several rounds of steaming tea, brownies and cookies were passed around as the adda session at the Oxford Bookstore hotted up. Theatre personalities, journalists, professors, women's rights activists and volunteers of Sanlaap, the organisers of the fortnight long programme organised to protest against violence on women, were present discussing issues relating to sexual abuse of women and children, gender variants and violence.

The fatwa read out by the 20-year-old maulana prescribed punishment for those "who read namaz standing behind someone who doesn't respect basic tenets of Islam."

Anwar said in his address that the entire nation was today looking towards Bihar CM Nitish Kumar with great expectations.

A 20-year-old youth was murdered for stalking a girl in Begumpurwa under Babupurwa police station on Friday night.

Devotees in large numbers thronged the mosques to offer 'Alvida Juma' (last Friday) namaz here.

Pakistan's famous pop star-turned- Islamic-preacher Junaid Jamshed was on board the ill-fated PK-661 flight that crashed today near Havelian while on its way to the national capital, killing all passengers.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday visited the historic Gandhi Maidan here and attended a mass prayer on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. The festival was celebrated with joy and gaiety across the city.

All 4 accused arrested; Rs50K recovered

PATNA: Laloo may have won many a hearts in Bollywood but the RJD, unlike other political parties, is not relying on cine stars to campaign for it for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday visited the historic Gandhi Maidan here and attended a mass prayer on the occasion of Eid-Ul-Fitr.

SHEORAJPUR/LAUKARIA: From Dusadhpatti in the Sheorajpur village in the Nautan block to the Musahar Toli in the Laukaria village of the Bairiya block, the furious Gandak has pushed hundreds of villagers, mostly Dalits, to seek shelter on the Champaran embankment.

At a time healthcare and doctors are hitting the headlines for mostly the wrong reasons, here’s something that’s bound to restore faith in what is surely one of the noblest professions.

Three nurses were injured at Vidyasagar State General Hospital in Kolkata after a mob of around 100 people, angered by the death of a patient, went on a rampage. The mob, alleging negligence, vandalized hospital property and demanded an explanation for the death. Police arrested nine people in connection with the violence.