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Four persons were arrested for allegedly torturing a 27-year-old Chenchu tribal woman for a week in Nagarkurnool district of Telangana after she did not turn up for work in an agricultural land, police said on Saturday. The woman was assaulted by the four accused, including her sister and brother-in-law in Molachintalapally village of Kollapur mandal. She was rescued after some villagers took up the matter with the police on Wednesday. The woman was admitted to a hospital and is undergoing treatment. In her complaint, the woman said that she was beaten up with sticks and tortured for not turning up for work in the agricultural land owned by one of the accused, a senior police official said. The victim also had a dispute with her sister over a family issue, they said. The accused allegedly inflicted burns on her private parts and thighs besides putting chilly powder in her eyes and body, police said. Four accused persons were arrested on Friday and remanded to judicial custody. B...

The "top leadership" of the National Testing Agency is under the scanner over alleged irregularities in competitive exams NEET and NET, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Saturday even as he denied any paper leak in the CSIR-UGC NET, which was postponed a day back. The minister said he is the custodian of students' interests and has to take that into account before taking any step. Amid a raging row over irregularities in the medical entrance exam NEET, Dharmendra Pradhan had said earlier this week that he cannot jeopardise the careers of the lakhs of candidates who cleared the exam rightfully. The June edition of the Joint Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and UGC-NET was postponed on Friday night. The Joint CSIR-UGC-NET is a test conducted to determine eligibility for junior research fellowship and assistant professor and admission to PhD in science courses. "There was no leak in CSIR-UGC NET, it was postponed because of logistic iss...

The Mumbai police have arrested two persons in connection with a burglary at actor Anupam Kher's office this week, an official said on Saturday. Majid Sheikh and Daler Bahreem Khan were taken into custody from the Jogeshwari area on Friday night for committing the crime, he said. Police said the two were serial thieves and would travel to various places in the city by autorickshaws to steal. The two struck on Wednesday at Kher's office on Vira Desai Road in the Amboli area and took away negatives of a film produced by his company and Rs 4.15 lakh. They also committed theft in Vile Parle that day, the official said. A part of the property stolen from Kher's office has been recovered from the duo, the official from Amboli police station said. The 69-year-old actor had narrated the incident on X and Instagram. "Last night in my Veera Desai Road office two thieves broke two doors and stole the entire safe from the accounts department (which they probably couldn't...

The NEET-PG scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed and fresh dates will be announced soon, the Health Ministry said in a statement today. The government alluding to the huge row over alleged irregularities in NEET-UG and UGC-NET said it decided to "undertake a thorough assessment of the robustness of processes of NEET-PG, conducted by the National Board of Examination for medical students." "It has accordingly been decided, as a precautionary measure, to postpone the NEET-PG scheduled to be held tomorrow (June 23). Fresh date of this examination will be notified at the earliest," the Health Ministry said, adding it "sincerely regrets the inconvenience caused to students". The government said the decision was taken in the best interests of students and to maintain the sanctity of examination. An hour before the announcement of the exam postponement came, the government issued an order that said it has replaced the chief of the National Testing Agency...

The Calcutta High Court directed the West Bengal government today to take steps to ensure that people displaced in the alleged post-poll violence in the state return to their homes. The court also extended the deployment of central forces in the state till June 26, when the matter would be listed for hearing again. "We cannot shut our eyes to the spate of complaints as disclosed and the allegation on the role of the police administration for which we feel that the deployment of the central forces may continue for a limited period," the court observed. A division bench presided by Justice Harish Tandon directed the West Bengal government to take immediate action to ensure that people displaced due to the alleged post-poll violence in the state return to their homes. The court directed the police administration to ensure the safety and security of such displaced persons and keep a constant vigil in the area of their residence and ensure that no threat perception or any kind...

Preparations for the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir have begun and the Union territory will regain its statehood too, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today in Srinagar. Addressing an event after laying the foundation stone and inaugurating 84 developmental projects worth Rs 1,500 crore in the Valley, PM Modi said the Centre has taken the recent terror attacks in the Union Territory very seriously and the enemies of Jammu and Kashmir will be given a befitting reply. He praised the young men and women of Jammu and Kashmir for the high turnout in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls and said they have ensured a victory of democracy. PM Modi said the wall of Article 370, which was scrapped in August 2019, collapsed and the fruits of the Indian Constitution were ensured in Jammu and Kashmir. "Today the Indian Constitution has truly been implemented in Jammu and Kashmir," he said. The Prime Minister said the forces inimical to peace and development are making last...

A man has been arrested in Maharashtra's Latur district for allegedly cheating four ASHA (accredited social health activist) workers of more than Rs 24 lakh by promising to get them jobs in the state health department, police said on Wednesday. While Sudhir Karbhari was arrested and remanded in police custody till Saturday, co-accused Shrikant Dasrao Shinde and Rajratan Ramrao Suryawanshi were absconding, said a police official. As per the complaint filed by Surekha Choudhary, an ASHA worker posted at Honali village in Deoni tehsil, between March 2021 and June 2024, the three accused collected a total of Rs 24.3 lakh from her and three other ASHA workers, promising to provide them jobs in the sub-divisional health department. They accused also provided them fake appointment letters, she claimed. Deoni police are conducting further probe. (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...