Wasim Ahmed

The shooting of a Hollywood movie at Lucknow University took an ugly turn on Wednesday after an expelled student along with his supporters created ruckus on the campus and allegedly assaulted chief proctor Pawan Agarwal.

Four members of a notorious gang were held with three illegal firearms from the Manoharpura area near Jaipur Wednesday.The Jaipur (rural) police said that one of the four accused even fired at the police team. The police also responded and fired at the gang and managed to arrest them.

The Motor Acci- dent Claims Tribunal (MACT) has awarded a com- pensation of Rs 27.5 lakh to the next of kin of a 40-year-old man who died in a hit-and-run accident in Sohna in 2020.

Connoisseurs of classical music in Kolkata were in for a treat at the annual music conference, Sangeet Sammelan 2014.

Indian Railways veterans Ashok Shandilya and Shyam Jagtiani progressed to the final qualifying round along with eight other cueists in the National Snooker Championship.

The agency also searched the south Delhi office and residence of Wasim Ahmed Dehlvi — owner of Zoom, a firm that supplies TV production equipment. Zoom provided services during the Games too.

Senior advocate Arunava Ghosh on Wednesday was elected as the new president of Calcutta High Court Bar Association.

A crime branch team arrested a 38-year-old man allegedly for supplying and using counterfeit Indian currency.

Two persons were killed and three others injured when the SUV in which they were travelling rammed into a tree near Barhar Kala village under Manda police station on early Wednesday.

Uttar Pradesh government on Friday transferred 20 IPS officers including three director generals, and removed police chiefs of Jaunpur and Kanpur Dehat.

“Hyderabad appears to be a dirty city. Filth is floating everywhere,” commented Chief Justice Madan B Lokur while hearing a writ petition on the mosquito menace in the city.

QADIAN (Gurdaspur): Fundamentalists in Pakistan are suppressing not only the minorities but also the Ahmadiya Muslims to assert their power, was the collective view at the 110th annual convention of Ahmadiya Muslims, that concluded here on Friday.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the CBI’s plea for awarding three “consecutive life sentences” to a Pakistani Hizbul Mujahideen operative convicted for a bomb blast in Jammu in 1995 which claimed eight lives, and awarded life sentence to him saying “he has just one life”.

Intensifying their drive against drugs, Dibrugarh Police carried out a raid at Kankan Nagar area on Friday night and seized 19.33 grams of heroin from a rented house.

No, you cannot wear those spectacles, not if you are getting snapped for a US visa application.