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A 19-year-old college student ended her life by jumping from the 14th floor of a residential building in Mumbai's Andheri area on Wednesday morning, a police official said. A one-page note left behind by the victim suggested that she had slipped into depression and took the extreme step due to it, said the official from D N Nagar police station. The incident took place at the Millionaire Heritage Society located on SV Road in the western suburb, he said. Victim Vidhi Pramod Kumar Singh had been living in the building for the past few years as a paying guest, while her family members reside in neighouring Thane. She was a student of Mithibai College in Vile Parle, he said. Nothing suspicious has been found so far. The building watchman first spotted her body on the ground and alerted other society members, who called the police, he said. The police have registered a case of accidental death and informed her family, the official said, adding that the exact reason behind her deat

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday affirmed the Central government's commitment to develop Lakshadweep, one of the Union Territories of the country. The PM, while addressing a public gathering in Lakshadweep's Agatti said that his government is addressing all the challenges faced by the people of the UT, including health and education. "Be it health, education, petrol or diesel, people faced a lot of problems in the past. Our government is now addressing all these challenges... New employment opportunities are being created in many sectors. The Government of India is committed to the development of Lakshadweep," PM Modi said. In a veiled attack on the previous governments at the Centre, the PM said that the UT remained 'neglected' after so many years of independence of the country. "Lakshadweep is full of many possibilities, but for a long time after independence, not much attention was paid to the infrastructure of Lakshadweep. Even though shipp

An MP from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's party was at the centre of a political storm on Tuesday after taking a gun to a New Year's Eve party where someone was shot with it. Emanuele Pozzolo, a lawmaker for Meloni's far-right Brothers of Italy party, has admitted owning the mini revolver -- reported to be a 22-calibre North American Arms revolver -- but says he did not fire it. It was discharged by accident, he said, causing a light injury to the leg of a guest, the son-in-law of a bodyguard of junior justice minister Andrea Delmastro -- who was also in attendance. "I confirm that the shot was accidentally fired from a pistol I legally held but it was not me that fired," Pozzolo, 38, said in a statement cited by the La Repubblica daily. The incident at the party in Rosazza near Turin, which about 30 guests attended, is under investigation, according to reports. But the story drew astonishment and outrage among opposition politicians. Possession of

A 36-year-old advocate was shot dead allegedly by a security guard for using casteist slurs during the New Year celebrations, police said on Monday. The incident took place late on Sunday night near the Tadikhana trisection under the Lalpur-Pandeypur police station area, they said. Advocate Raghavendra Singh was celebrating the New Year party with his friends and employees in a lawn on Sunday night. One of his friends, Gaurav Singh who runs a security company, was also present on the occasion, SHO of Lalpur-Pandeypur police station Manoj Kumar said. During the party, Raghavendra Singh used some casteist words against security guard Hardendu Shekhar Tripathi, a resident of Nagwa who worked for Gaurav Singh. This angered the guard who shot Raghavendra Singh with his licensed pistol, the SHO said. An injured Raghavendra Singh was rushed to the trauma centre at the BHU by his friends, where doctors declared him dead. Police have arrested the accused along with the weapon used in the c

The nominations of 22,711 candidates for the February 8 polls to Pakistan's National Assembly and four of its provincial assemblies have been accepted by the election commission after preliminary review, it emerged on Monday. According to the data uploaded on the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) website, 7,473 candidates, including 7,028 male and 445 female candidates, submitted their nominations for the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament. The Returning Officers (ROs) accepted nominations of 6,449 candidates including 6,094 male and 355 female candidates, and rejected the documents of 1,024 candidates, including 934 men and 90 women. The data on rejected candidates was not provided in detail but jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party has claimed that a vast majority of rejections were against its nominated candidates. Similarly, the ROs approved 16,262 nomination papers for the four provincial assemblies, out of the docum

A 47-year-old woman infected with coronavirus died on Sunday, the first Covid death in the district in about six months, an official said. The woman, who was undergoing treatment at a private hospital for six days, was also suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure and other health issues, he said. Meanwhile, two fresh COVID-19 cases were reported in Gurugram on Monday, the health department said. Two women, aged 35 and 57, have tested positive for COVID-19. Both of them recently returned from Mumbai. After their health deteriorated, they got tested for COVID-19 and their results came back positive, it said. "As both women have mild symptoms, they are in home isolation. A doctor is monitoring their health," an official said.  from NDTV News Search Records Found 1000 https://ift.tt/QkGropM

The National Commission for Women (NCW) registered 28,811 complaints of crime against women last year and about 55 per cent were from Uttar Pradesh. The highest number of complaints were received in the right to dignity category that involves harassment other than domestic violence and it stood at 8,540, according to The National Commission for Women data. This was followed by 6,274 complaints of domestic violence. Dowry harassment complaints stood at 4,797, molestation complaints at 2,349, police indifference against women complaints at 1,618, and rape and attempt to rape complaints at 1,537, the data showed. There were 805 complaints of sexual harassment, 605 of cyber crime, 472 of stalking and 409 of honour crimes, it stated. Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest number of complaints at 16,109 followed by Delhi 2,411, Maharashtra at 1,343, according to the data. Bihar recorded 1,312 complaints, Madhya Pradesh 1,165, Haryana 1,115, Rajasthan 1,011, Tamil Nadu 608, West Bengal 569 a