Trichy: The 25-year-old man who was assaulted by his relative during a drunken brawl a month ago died in Trichy on Tuesday. Police said the deceased, S Rahman Bakrudeen Kafoor, from Kamaraj Nagar, went to a funeral near K K Nagar on June 17 that his relative A Rafique, 40, from VOC Street, also attended. The two got into an argument after consuming alcohol, which soon escalated into a physical brawl. Rafique picked up a wooden log and brutally assaulted Rahman, police said. The injured man was admitted to a private hospital, while Rafique fled the scene. Police traced and arrested Rafique on J...

Guwahati: Assam will tighten security at the Behali Reserve Forest after surveys found extensive damage, officials said Thursday. Forest minister Jayanta Malla Baruah ordered intensified surveillance, infrastructure upgrades and immediate restoration after satellite imagery and drone assessments showed encroachment and destruction across nearly 400 hectares in the reserve forest along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. Acting on chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s directions, Baruah reviewed the situation with senior officials of the forest department, Assam Police and the civil administrati...

Patna: More than 100 police officers from across Bihar participated in a Reserve Bank of India (RBI)-led training programme on financial fraud in Madhubani on Thursday, aimed at strengthening law enforcement’s ability to tackle cyber and financial crimes. The programme, organised by RBI’s Patna office, focused on emerging financial frauds, consumer protection and measures to improve financial literacy. Several deputy superintendents of police (DSPs) and other officers attended the training. Officials briefed participants on RBI’s role in combating financial crimes, security features of Indian ...

NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday suspended three Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) councillors with immediate effect, a day after alleging cross-voting during the ward committee elections, news agency PTI reported. Delhi AAP president Saurabh Bharadwaj announced the decision on X. The suspended councillors are Nirmala Devi (Sharma) from the West Zone, Krishna Devi Raghav from the West Zone and Sultana Abad from the City SP Zone, according to PTI. The party alleged that the three councillors had cross-voted during the MCD elections. It also claimed that the chairman in the We...

Kolkata: Of the 68,239 spectators who were in attendance at the Argentina-England semi-final in Atlanta, roughly 60% were Argentina fans. Among them were a few Kolkatans, all die-hard Messi supporters. Kangsari Kayal, Subhasis Chakraborty and Soumik Ganguly were in their late teens when they had watched Diego Maradona ‘single-handedly’ beat England in the quarter-final match in the 1986 World Cup. While the goal of the century, the second in that game, is still etched in every football fan’s memory, the first ‘Hand of God’ goal has rankled Argentina supporters for decades. All that was redeeme...