Month: May 2025

[ad_1] New Delhi: Supreme Court Thursday refused to entertain a doctor's plea seeking suspension of the sentence of life imprisonment awarded to him after being convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Pocso) for raping his seven-year-old daughter.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma said he was not entitled to bail, considering the kind of things he did to his daughter.The convict's lawyer contended that he was framed because of differences with his wife, and that she tutored the child to testify against him. His wife is also a doctor but despite that the medical examination of his daughter was delayed by three months and no injury marks were found on her body, the advocate said.The bench, however, said there was no reason to disbelieve the child's statement and she also withstood the […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: It was literally a baptism by fire for the young women BSF personnel deployed at the international border (IB) in J&K's Akhnoor sector during Operation Sindoor. Led by Assistant Commandant Neha Bhandari who joined the force barely three years ago but seized the "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to engage the enemy forces in active combat - arguably becoming the first woman officer to do so since the Army is yet to utilise its women personnel for such roles - half a dozen women BSF personnel fiercely defended two forward posts in Akhnoor with sustained and heavy retaliatory fire on the Pakistani posts in adjoining Sialkot for three days and three nights. The women 'Seema Praharis' stopped only when the extensive damage caused by their flat trajectory/area weapons forced the enemy to step back and abandon their forward locations.Of the […]

[ad_1] TimesofIndia.com in Mullanpur: At the innings break, Punjab Kings (PBKS) players posed for the camera. The moment their faces hit the big screens, it told the story of the 85 minutes they had just endured against a charged-up Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in Qualifier 1 of the IPL playoffs at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur.The faces of the Punjab Kings players said it all — battered, dejected, bruised, and in complete disbelief at what had just hit them. The stars of the show? The RCB bowlers.After being put in to bat first, PBKS were annihilated by the RCB attack, bundled out for just 101 in 14.1 overs. Everything RCB touched on the night turned to gold — barring one bizarre review.RCB were simply outstanding with the ball, and every bowler chipped in. Whether it was […]