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A loco pilot was run over by the New Delhi-Ranchi Rajdhani Express when he was crossing the railway tracks in Jharkhand's Koderma district on Saturday morning, police said. The incident happened near Gajhandi station in Dhanbad railway division, they said. Pankaj Kumar Singh (36), a resident of Munger district in Bihar, was posted at Gomoh in Dhanbad, they added. After his duty was over, Mr Singh was crossing the tracks when the incident happened, Koderma RPF in-charge Jawahar Lal said. After post-mortem examination and completion of other formalities, the body was handed over to his family, he said. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) from NDTV News-India-news https://ift.tt/i8T6pzk via IFTTT

A man hurled a shoe at the national president of Rashtriya Shoshit Samaj Party Swami Prasad Maurya during a rally here on Friday. The man, identified as Dharmendra Dhakrey, has been and further action is being taken against him, Dauki SHO Rampal Singh said. A spokesperson of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) claimed that Dharmendra Dhakrey is associated with the organisation. Mr Maurya in February left the Samajwadi Party and formed the Rashtriya Shoshit Samaj Party. The incident happened this evening when Mr Maurya was addressing a rally in support of the party candidate from Fatehpur Sikri in Dauki. Talking to news agency PTI, ABHM spokesperson Sanjay Jaat said, "One of our members hurled a shoe at Mr Maurya when he was delivering his speech in Dauki. We were against the leader over his remarks against Ramcharitmanas."  Mr Maurya striked a controversy by alleging that certain verses in the Ramcharitmanas, a sacred text in the Awadhi language based on the epic Ra...

Union Minister R K Singh on Thursday sought action against Bhojpuri singer-turned-politician Pawan Singh who has announced that he will contest the Lok Sabha elections against NDA despite being a BJP member. R K Singh was responding to queries about the singer's decision to enter the fray as an independent from the Karakat Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, where former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha, chief of Rashtriya Lok Morcha, is contesting as the NDA candidate. "Either he should announce that he would not contest polls against the NDA nominee from Karakat or he should be suspended from the primary membership of the BJP. If he fights elections from Karakat, his suspension from the party will be the appropriate decision. Upendra Kushwa is the NDA candidate, who is Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji's nominee," said R K Singh, seeking re-election from the Arrah Lok Sabha seat. Anybody contesting against the NDA nominee means he or she is against the alliance headed by Modi ...

The Rajasthan government on Wednesday suspended a government school teacher in Barmer district for allegedly beating a class 3 student. Ganpat Patalia, a teacher of Government Higher Primary School in Chhota Hathala village, was suspended after the authorities took suo moto cognizance of a video in which he was seen slapping a student. The teacher had slapped an eight-year-old student named Praveen on Monday, Bakhasar Police Station SHO Vishan Singh said. An FIR was booked in the matter on Tuesday evening after a video of it surfaced on the internet. Singh said the medical examination of the boy has been done and further action will be taken against the teacher after the boy's and his family members' statements have been recorded. Rajasthan School Education Minister Madan Dilawar had earlier in the day ordered officials to take strict action in the matter. "Taking this whole incident seriously, necessary guidelines have been given to them after talking to the concern...

न्यूज पोर्टल न्यूजक्लिक (News Portal Newsclick) के संपादक प्रबीर पुरकायस्थ (Prabir Purkayastha) की गिरफ्तारी के मामले पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट में मंगलवार को सुनवाई हुई. सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने गिरफ्तारी के बाद उनके वकील को सूचित किए बिना मजिस्ट्रेट के सामने पेश करने में जल्दबाजी के लिए दिल्ली पुलिस पर सवाल उठाया. जस्टिस बीआर गवई और जस्टिस संदीप मेहता की पीठ ने इस तथ्य पर भी हैरानी जताई कि पुरकायस्थ के वकील को रिमांड आवेदन दिए जाने से पहले ही रिमांड आदेश पारित कर दिया गया था. गिरफ्तारी के तरीके पर सवाल उठाते हुए पीठ ने गैरकानूनी गतिविधियां (रोकथाम) अधिनियम 1967 के तहत एक मामले में  गिरफ्तारी और रिमांड को चुनौती देने वाली पुरकायस्थ की याचिका पर फैसला सुरक्षित रख लिया. पोर्टल के माध्यम से राष्ट्र-विरोधी प्रचार को बढ़ावा देने के लिए कथित चीनी फंडिंग के मामले में अक्टूबर को गिरफ्तारी के बाद से पुरकायस्थ हिरासत में हैं. कपिल सिब्बल ने रखा पक्ष सुनवाई के दौरान पुरकायस्थ की ओर से पेश वरिष्ठ वकील कपिल सिब्बल ने कहा कि उन्हें 3 अक्टूबर, 2023 की शाम को गिरफ्तार किया गया था. सिब्बल ने अद...

A former assistant professor, Nirmala Devi, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a court in Tamil Nadu for soliciting sexual favors from women students to university officials.  The court's verdict on Monday found her guilty under five Sections, including attempting to traffick four women and imposed a fine of Rs 2.4 lakh. Two others, including a male assistant professor, were acquitted in the case. Nirmala Devi, who worked at the Devanga Arts College in Aruppukottai, was arrested in 2018 following the circulation of a recorded telephonic conversation where she was heard tacitly asking students to provide sexual favors to university authorities. The incident sparked a significant controversy, for implicating the Raj Bhavan. The then Governor, Banwarilal Purohit, swiftly dismissed the allegations at the time. from NDTV News-India-news https://ift.tt/MDjRSKX via IFTTT

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has doubled down on the state government's claim that a major factor behind the ethnic crisis in the border state was the "massive influx of illegal immigrants from Myanmar". Mr Singh said at least 996 villages have mushroomed across Manipur since 2006, and attributed what he called the "unnatural growth" to illegal immigrants settling down after scattering all over the unsurveyed hill areas of the state. "Will anyone accept the unnatural growth of new villages and population, causing massive changes to the demography in their own state or country due to the influx of illegal immigrants?" Mr Singh said in a post on the microblogging website X. "We're confronting a serious issue within our nation, especially in Manipur, where several new villages have emerged due to a massive influx of illegal immigrants from Myanmar since 2006 till date. During this period, massive forest cover have been destroyed to est...