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Time of India
4 hours ago
- Time of India
Man dies after mud house collapses in elephant attack in Garhwa
Garhwa: A 45-year-old man died late Tuesday night in Nagari village, within the limits of Ranka police station, Garhwa district, after wild elephants damaged his mud house, police said on Wednesday. Vijay Singh was sleeping on a cot when elephants attacked the house, causing a wall to collapse and crush him, leading to his death at the scene. Chetan Kumar Singh, Ranka police station In-Charge, said, "The body of the deceased was handed over to the family after the post mortem." A forest department official stated that the family received an initial cheque for Rs 50,000, and the remaining Rs 3.5 lakh of compensation will be paid soon. Garhwa: A 45-year-old man died after being buried under debris of mud house damaged by wild elephants in Nagari village under Ranka police station limits in Garhwa district late Tuesday night, police said on Wednesday. The deceased Vijay Singh was sleeping on a cot when elephants attacked the house following which wall of the house collapsed and fell on the sleeping Vijay Singh who died on the spot. Chetan Kumar Singh, Ranka police station in-charge said, "The body of the deceased was handed over to the family after the post mortem". Initially a cheque for Rs 50,000 was given to the family while rest Rs 3.5 lakh of compensation will be paid soon, said a forest department official.
Time of India
24-06-2025
- Time of India
Army constable dies as dummy bomb payload falls on head
Bhopal: In an accident that occurred during a military training session at the firing range in Sukhi Sewania, a dummy bomb (payload) being carried by a drone accidentally fell on a havaldar's head, leading to his death. The incident took place on Monday during the routine training exercise. Sukhi Sewania SHO Rambabu Choudhary said that the deceased, Vijay Singh, 37, a native of Uttarakhand, was serving as a Havaldar in the Army unit in Bhopal. According to initial reports, the drones were flying at a height, transporting dummy bombs from one point to another. During the session, one of the drones reportedly malfunctioned at high altitude, causing the dummy bomb it was carrying to fall directly on Havaldar Vijay Singh's head. He sustained critical head injuries. Fellow personnel rushed him to the Army Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. The police registered a case and handed over the body to Army officials after post-mortem on Tuesday. You Can Also Check: Bhopal AQI | Weather in Bhopal | Bank Holidays in Bhopal | Public Holidays in Bhopal Both the police and Army authorities are now conducting a detailed investigation to determine the exact cause and possible lapses that led to the accident. In a similar incident reported earlier, two police personnel from the Counter Terrorist Group (CTG) of MP Police sustained serious injuries during a routine training exercise involving controlled explosives at the 25th Battalion in Bhadbhada on May 15. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Cuối cùng, chơi miễn phí game chiến thuật hay nhất 2025! Sea of Conquest Phát ngay Undo The incident occurred around 1pm while the officers were practising door intervention techniques—training designed for tactical entry into buildings during emergency or anti-terror the exercise, a controlled explosive device—meant to simulate a real-world scenario for breaching doors—unexpectedly caused injuries to both a head constable and a constable. The blast was reportedly well-contained with sandbags as per protocol, but for reasons yet to be determined, the explosion led to injuries. The injured were identified as head constable Vishal Singh and constable Santosh Kumar.
Time of India
21-06-2025
- Science
- Time of India
Python gulps 2 birds, rests in poultry shed
Navi Mumbai: A 10 ft long Indian rock python, which slithered into a poultry shed near A forest in Vangani village of Mhasala, Raigad, was released into the wild Thursday. The python gobbled up two chickens and killed another bird at the shed, after which it became lethargic to digest the ingested food. Wildlife researcher Shantanu Kuveskar, sid the presence of the large snake caused panic among the workers. —Vijay Singh
Time of India
09-06-2025
- Time of India
No evidence: HC acquits 6 accused in human trafficking & rape case
Bhopal: A division bench of the Madhya Pradesh high court acquitted six accused, including four women, who were sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Pocso court in Chhindwara for human trafficking and the rape of a minor. During the hearing, the court found that the mother of the minor girl lodged a complaint about her 'missing' daughter almost a year after she went missing. A week later, the girl lodged a complaint at the police station, naming the accused in her FIR. The court further noted that the girl in question eloped with other boys twice earlier. There were no documents to prove that she was a minor. The court acquitted all the accused in the absence of credible evidence. According to the prosecution, the girl went missing on March 16, 2013. However, her mother lodged a report about her missing daughter on March 12, 2014. The girl surfaced a week later and lodged a complaint that she was sold by some persons and raped by the person who bought her. She also named the accused in the FIR. In her statement to the police, the girl said she was a student at Rani Laxmibai School and, since her mother was not keeping well, she also started working as domestic help with one of her friends. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Good News: You May Be Richer Than You Think Undo The accused, Anjum, Shanti Bai, her daughter Rajni, and son-in-law Kailash Yadav, took her and her friend to Bhopal, where they met Anjum's mother, Khairunnisa. From Bhopal, they went to Susner through Shujalpur. In Susner, she was sold to Vijay Singh. She was asked to wear a saree, and some cash was put in her lap. She was 17 years of age then. Vijay forcibly married her and sexually exploited her for nearly a year until she escaped and reached the police station. The Chhindwara police investigated the case and charge-sheeted it in a Pocso court. The court sentenced all the accused to 10 years in jail. The bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Anuradha Shukla, hearing the criminal revision petition of the accused, observed that there was no force used to take the girl to Susner and hand her off to Vijay Singh. The girl appeared to have gone with them on her own. In her statement, she said that at Susner, she was asked to wear a saree, and some cash was put on her lap. An engagement ceremony was being performed without informing her. The girl was a student, and she must have seen ceremonies like this taking place before marriage. There was no document to substantiate that she was a minor at that time, except for the date of birth written in the school document based on the information given by her parents. The medico-legal test on the girl failed to give a conclusive opinion on rape, as she was with Vijay Singh for almost a year. The mother of the girl lodged a complaint about her missing daughter a year after she went missing. She didn't inquire from any of the accused about her daughter during this period either. It appeared that the girl went with the accused after informing her mother. The court believed that it was with the agreement of the girl that she was taken to Susner and married to Vijay Singh. The girl's friend, in her statement, said that she 'eloped' with other boys on two occasions earlier. Her mother was aware of it. There was no evidence regarding the age of the girl. In such a situation, the accused were acquitted for want of credible evidence, and the Pocso court order was set aside, the court said.
Time of India
05-06-2025
- Science
- Time of India
JEE rankers choose MIT over IIT for research, global options
Mumbai: Devesh Bhaiya, All India Rank 8 this year in the fiercely contested JEE Advanced, has decided to turn his back on India's elite engineering institutions and head for MIT instead. He won't be alone. Ved Lahoti, last year's Rank 1 and the candidate who has scored the highest in the entrance exam (352/360) in recent history, is also wrapping up his Powai chapter in exchange for a fully funded scholarship at MIT. There's a murmur of a trend here. In 2020, it was Chirag Falor who chose MIT over IIT. Before that, it was Chitraang Murdia, who spent a year at IIT Bombay before transferring to MIT. He now holds a PhD from Berkeley. "It seems like MIT trusts the rigour of JEE Advanced and the promise of our Olympiad stars," said Prof Vijay Singh, once at IIT Kanpur, who later superannuated from the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. Jalgaon's Devesh has a record that goes far beyond the JEE rank: three gold medals, two from International Junior Science Olympiads in 2021 and 2022, and one from the International Chemistry Olympiad in 2024. In 2020, he was awarded the Bal Shakti Puraskar. At 12, when most children were still tracing constellations in the sky, Devesh was mapping their vanishing — authoring a paper on light pollution. He received admission to MIT in March but sat for JEE Advanced anyway — a "back-up," he calls it. Devesh is not alone. But the others chose to stay for a year, to feel the pulse on Indian campuses, before going overseas. They too were accepted by American universities, whose doors — as Professor Vijay Singh notes — open wide for those with Olympiad medals and high JEE scores. The students' reasons for the switch are apparent. "I'm fully satisfied with IIT Bombay. But it lags in research. Globally, it's not even in the top 100. So, I applied to MIT — and when it came through, I took it. A lot of students have taken transfer to MIT and when I asked them, they said the transfer was truly worth it," said Lahoti. Nishank Abhangi, who spent 2019–2020 immersed in IIT Bombay's rigour before packing for MIT, and Mahit Gadhewala, All India Rank 9 in 2022, who also left after a year at IITB, are the other examples. Prof Singh said the first such student to do so was Raghu Mahajan, who spent a year at IIT Delhi, then took off to MIT, completed his PhD at Stanford, and is currently spending a year at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru. "He was very committed to coming back to India," recalled Prof Singh. Lahoti too shares the same feelings. "I have no plans to settle in the USA."
