Suresh Mandal

The convicts, Suresh Mandal and Kailash Paswan, are residents of Bathane and Bhagwatipur villages, respectively, under the Pandaul police station of the district.

Uttarakhand high court on Thursday asked the Centre and the state government to submit a reply within two weeks on the alleged influx of illegal immigrants into the hill state from a neighbouring country. The court was hearing a petition filed by Suresh Mandal, a resident of Udham Singh Nagar district.

They Slit Throat Of 32-Year-Old Man, Arrested

MIDC police on Tuesday arrested a school dropout from Jharkhand for siphoning off Rs1 lakh from the bank account of a 31-year-old senior executive after she called a customer care number.

MUMBAI: The crime branch recently arrested five persons for making extortion threats to a builder in the western suburbs. The police refused to divulge the identity of the victim.

Three persons died on the spot and a woman sustained serious injuries after the car in which they were travelling rammed into a roadside tree near Basini Chowk under Umerkote police station limits in Nabarangpur district late on Thursday night.

BHAGALPUR: Four persons, including a woman, died on the spot and two others sustained serious injuries after a fireworks factory, located in a house in Kajwalichak area under the Kotwali police station here, caught fire in the wee hours of Thursday. Short circuit is suspected to have sparked off the fire.

A tugboat sank in sea at Hazira with 10 on board at around 8.30pm on Friday. Eight people were rescued while two persons are still missing. Search operation to trace the missing persons continued even on Saturday but they were yet to be found.

104-year-old Rasik Chandra Mandal, who served nearly three decades in Malda prison for the 1988 murder of his brother, has been released on bail following a Supreme Court order. The court assessed he was mentally fit, and he expressed mixed emotions about leaving prison, indicating the bond he formed with fellow inmates.

The Government Rail Police (GRP), Patna, on Monday arrested a student from a hotel in Buxar and foiled his attempt to extort Rs 5 lakh from his parents by enacting a drama of his own kidnapping.

As many as 12,000 voters boycotted the poll in Malda, saying basic demands, such as bijli, sadak or paani (electricity, roads and water) have not been met all these years.

At least 14 people died and 16 others were injured in a powerful explosion at Kazwali Chak, in Tatarpur police station area of Bhagalpur town, late Thursday night. DIG (Bhagalpur) Sujit Kumar said a large amount of explosives stored in a house for the manufacture of illegal firecrackers caused the blast.