Ravikant Singh

Konnagar residents came out in large numbers with conch shells and drums to welcome Ravikant Singh – a member of the Under-19 World Cup winning squad – as he reached his hometown, Konnagar.

The action comes days after Ravikant Singh had supported Nagpal, the 28-year-old SDM of Gautam Budh Nagar, who led the crackdown on sand mining mafia in her district

The brutal attack on a 22-year-old married woman comes on the heels of the Supreme Court’s direction to states and union territories for regulating the sale of acids.

Alarmed by widespread encroachment of pastures, reservoirs, ponds and graveyards owned by village councils, the district magistrate has constituted a committee to deal with the issue.

Off spinner Ashis Yadav claimed a hat-trick to help Jharkhand bowl out Bengal for 386 on day two of their four-day Cooch Behar Trophy elite group B match on Sunday.

A day after the National Green Tribunal ordered state governments to restrain mining activities being carried out without environmental clearances from MoEF, a TOI team conducted a reality check on the Yamuna floodplains on Tuesday.

Abandoned by their three sons and forced to live in acute misery in a hut in a waterlogged farm with mosquitoes and the danger of snakes in Pali, a couple in the twilight of their lives found succour when the district collector intervened.

Police on Saturday evening nabbed 2 criminals who were suspected to be members of Suraj Singh's extortion gang.

Ravikant Singh was sentenced to life imprisonment with rigorous labour by a Koderma court for the murder of his wife, Mamta Devi, in December 2023. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on him. Mamta's father had filed a complaint alleging dowry-related harassment and physical assault, leading to her death.

Prem Prakash Singh, the Samajwadi Party MLA from Barhaj constituency in Deoria district could be courting trouble with the Election commission for having his name registered in two electoral rolls in UP and Uttarakhand.

Mathura district administration has approached Kanpur dehat district authorities to locate parents of five children who got separated from their families following clashes at Jawahar Bagh on June 2.

When floods ravaged Bihar in 2007, Dr Ravikant Singh, a Patna boy studying medicine in Mumbai's KEM Hospital, gathered a few fellow doctors and rushed home to help.

Samajwadi Party candidate Ashutosh Upadhyaya today won the bypoll for Bhatparrani Assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival, an independent candidate, by 34,102 votes.

Nearly 1.40 lakh cancer cases are detected in Bihar every year and 70% of the patients are found in the advanced stage of the disease.

Resident doctors and medical students on Sunday called off their six-day-old strike after an assurance by the Maharashtra government to meet their demands.

The new Gautam Budh Nagar SSP, Preetinder Singh, has joined at a time when crimes against women are showing a rising trend.

Independent medical teams from the city will leave for Uttarakhand for relief work.

Even as suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal continues to remain attached to the revenue board in Lucknow, the post of SDM (Sadar) has changed hands for the second time.