Mumbai: A 37-year-old scientific officer at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) allegedly hanged himself to death at his residence in suburban Trombay following an argument with wife over feeding their children, a police official said on Saturday.

The incident took place on Thursday and the deceased has been identified as Anuj Tripathi, he said.

“On Thursday morning, Tripathi had a heated argument with his wife at their residence in Anushaktinagar over the issue of feeding their children. He later went to the bedroom and hanged himself from the ceiling fan using a towel,” senior inspector Siddheshwar Gove of Trombay police station said.

His wife and some neighbors later rushed him to a hospital, where he was declared brought dead, he said. A case of accidental death has been registered at Trombay police station in this connection and investigation is on, Gove added.

New Delhi: A team of Delhi Police’s Special Cell on Saturday morning visited the spot near the Israeli Embassy where an IED blast took place, officials said.

The Special Cell is probing the blast that occurred on Friday evening in the heart of the national capital and collecting evidence as part of the investigation, they said.

The Delhi Police said that the improvised explosive device (IED) went off at 5.05 pm and no one was injured and there was no damage to any property.

An envelope addressed to the Israeli Embassy and containing a note was found at the site of the blast, sources had said on Friday.

They said the envelope was addressed to embassy officials, but did not divulge any further details including content of the note.

The blast took place when President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were present a few kilometres away at the Beating Retreat ceremony at the culmination of the Republic Day celebrations.

Hyderabad: BJP MLA Raja Singh was sentenced to one year imprisonment on Friday by a special sessions court trying cases pertaining to MPs/MLAs here on the charge of assualting a public servant and preventing him from discharging his duty in 2015.

Singh said in a release here that the court granted him bail and gave him one month to file an appeal before the High Court.

the MLA had been taken into preventive custody on December 10 2015 on the issue of a ‘beef ‘festival’ proposed to be organised in the Osmania University.

The case against him was that he assaulted a police offcier at Bollarum police station where he was taken later.

Chandannagar (WB): Chandannagar Police Commissioner Humayun Kabir resigned on Friday citing personal reasons, a senior official of the state government said.

Kabir is likely to join the Trinamool Congress next month and maybe fielded from a seat in the Hooghly district in the assembly elections, a party source said.

Kabir, a 2003-batch State Police Service (SPS) officer, was promoted to the rank of inspector-general of police (IGP) in December.

“I have some personal aspirations, which I need fulfil and that is why I took this decision

“I was not getting the release order, but since I finally got it today, I will concentrate on that,” he added.

Kabir, considered close to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, said he will reveal his future plans on February 4 when asked whether he was joining politics.

“I will not say anything today, give me a couple of days. Nothing has taken any concrete form. I will talk about it on February 4,” he said.

Kabir has authored several books, including ‘Uttoron’, which was launched by the chief minister at the Kolkata International Book Fair last year.

He also directed a Bengali crime thriller — ‘Aleya’, which was released in the theatres in 2018.

Gaurav Sharma, who is currently the Kolkata Police’s Joint Commissioner (Establishment), has been named as the new police commissioner of Chandannagar, a city in the Hooghly district.

Sharma will take over the new post on February 1. 

The girl, with whose family the 35-year-old accused had a land dispute, was raped inside an empty classroom in a school in Panki police station area on Wednesday.

MEDININAGAR: A para-teacher has been arrested for allegedly raping and poisoning a 13- year-old girl to death in Jharkhand’s Palamu district, police said on Friday.

The girl, with whose family the 35-year-old accused had a land dispute, was raped inside an empty classroom in a school in Panki police station area on Wednesday and was then poisoned, Lesliganj Sub-divisional Police Officer Anup Kumar Baraik said.

She died while undergoing treatment at a hospital on Thursday, the officer said, adding that the accused has been arrested.

The post-mortem report of the girl has confirmed that she was raped and poisoned, the officer added.

The move is part of preventive vigilance to check corruption at locations where public dealing takes place, they added

NEW DELHI: The CBI conducted surprise checks at 20 Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns in Punjab and Haryana on Friday after getting a number of complaints regarding alleged irregularities, officials said.

The move is part of preventive vigilance to check corruption at locations where public dealing takes place, they added.

The action started jointly with vigilance teams of the FCI at about 20 locations in the two states, the officials said.

NEW DELHI: The coronavirus-induced suspension of scheduled international passenger flights has been extended till February 28, aviation regulator DGCA said on Thursday.

“However, international scheduled flights may be allowed on selected routes by the competent authority on a case-to-case basis,” the Directorate General of Civil Aviation added.

Scheduled international passenger services have been suspended in India since March 23 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

But special international flights have been operating under the Vande Bharat Mission since May and under bilateral “air bubble” arrangements with selected countries since July.

India has formed air bubble pacts with around 24 countries including the US, the UK, the UAE, Kenya, Bhutan and France.

Under an air bubble pact between two countries, special international flights can be operated by their airlines between their territories.

The DGCA circular also said that the suspension does not affect the operation of international all-cargo operations and flights specifically approved by it.