India

Mumbai, Oct 18 (PTI) A 28-year-old passenger has been arrested for allegedly molesting a female flight attendant on board a Bengaluru-bound IndiGo plane before its departure from the Mumbai airport, a police official said Thursday.

New Delhi, Oct 18 (PTI) Several records have gone missing from Income Tax department because of a restructuring drive in 2001 and 2013, the Central Information Commission has been informed.

Information Commissioner Bimal Julka noted it in one of the cases heard by him when the tax department could not furnish information about pension fund in NTPC to an RTI applicant.

Noida (UP), Oct 18 (PTI) The Noida Police Thursday said it had busted a fake call centre operating from the city and arrested the mastermind for allegedly duping Canadians and other foreign nationals.

Working on an input from the Canadian police, the fake call centre operating out of Sector 63 was busted, the police said.

"The Noida police and its cyber cell tracked down the conmen, who were offering 'tax benefits' to foreigners in return for money," Station House Officer, Phase 3 Police Station Akhilsh Tripathi said.

Pamba (Ker), Oct 18 (PTI) A Delhi-based woman journalist of a foreign media outlet, who trekked the Sabarimala Hill, was Thursday stopped midway by Lord Ayyappa devotees opposing entry of women of menstrual age into the hill shrine.

The journalist accompanied by her male colleague, a foreigner, descended the hills from Marakkoottam area in the face of mounting protest by Ayyappa devotees.

Reporters of Malayalam news channels who followed the journalist to the hill shrine said the devotees shouted slogans ladies go back .

KANPUR: The engine of Farakka Express ran without the guard on the tracks. Lucknow bound train got moving up without the guard from the Central station here on Tuesday.

As the train’s guard arrived at the platform no. 9 of the railway station, he did not find his record box. Therefore he right away approached the GRP office to register the first information report.

KANPUR: In order to lessen the pollution in the city areas, the Kanpur region of Uttar Pradesh State Roadways Transport Corporation has taken a decision to run electric buses on its roads.

Although one air-conditioned bus and two non-air-conditioned electric buses were already plying on trial from Kanpur to Lucknow yet there was ample plan to bring electric buses on the city roads from the next year.

An inspection was carried out in the district’s every polling booths on Sunday. During the check-up of the document, the district magistrate Vijay Viswas Pant found several irregularities in the voting list. An action was taken against as many as 8 BLOs including one supervisor in Cantt and Kalyanpur assemblies’ constituencies respectively.       

KANPUR: Three city's budding archery players have been selected in Uttar Pradesh Sub-junior Archery Team after the trial conducted in Mathura. They are Ajay, Arif and Bhumi. Reacting on their selection they said that they would try their best to perform well.

KANPUR: On reaching at the city along with her 40 members group, the mountaineer Bachhendri Pal said that cleaning of the river Ganga was more difficult than scaling the Mount Everest. However, it was not impossible. Public support was vital in this movement.

She has been on a river rafting expedition with the Clean Ganga message. She arrived here from Farrukhabad on Sunday.  

New Delhi, Oct 12 (PTI) Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Friday came out in support of the #MeToo movement, saying it is time for the truth to be told "loud and clear in order to bring about change".

He did not comment on the charges of sexual harassment against Union minister M J Akbar.

It is about time that everyone learns to treat women with respect and dignity, Gandhi said on Twitter.