Mumbai: Bombay high court on Wednesday said gangster Abu Salem can be given four days of parole leave excluding travel time, but he would have to pay for police escort charges.Justices Ajey Gadkari and Shyam Chandak were hearing Salem’s petition for 14 days of parole to travel from Nashik prison to Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh to…
Navi Mumbai: After more than eight years of court trial in the double murder case registered at Sanpada police station, the arrested accused, now aged 46, was convicted by the additional district and sessions court, Belapur, on Tuesday and was sentenced to life term imprisonment with a Rs 1,000 fine. The court order pronounced by…
Mumbai/Nagpur: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar‘s portfolios will move by default to CM Devendra Fadnavis as he is head of the state cabinet and govt. Sources said any formal notification would be issued once the three-day mourning period is over.However, with the budget session round the corner, govt is bound to feel Ajit Pawar’s absence….
Pune: High flames, burning aircraft, and five charred bodies were what the first responders found after reaching the crash site at Atole Vasti near the Baramati airstrip on Wednesday morning.“We received an emergency call at 8.57am and two fire tenders were sent to the spot. We saw the mangled remains of the aircraft scattered around,…
Pune: Wednesday was supposed to be yet another hectic day for Ajit Pawar. He was scheduled to address four campaign rallies for zilla parishad and panchayat samiti elections after landing at Baramati airstrip around 9am. The first rally was scheduled at 10am in Nirwagaj and the day’s last was planned in Supa village around 5.30pm.On…
Pune: Eight years after the state govt announced a policy to create dedicated permanent helipads in every taluka, the plan remains largely unimplemented, with most districts yet to earmark land for such facilities due to space constraints and lack of sustained follow-through by district administrations.The helipad policy was introduced in 2018 following a series of…
Nagpur: Ajit Pawar had a mid-air scare while flying from Nagpur to Gadchiroli with then deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis and industries minister Uday Samant on July 17, 2024. Visibility had dropped to near-zero amid heavy rain, dense fog and dark clouds.After touchdown, a rattled Pawar described how the helicopter wobbled in the clouds and nothing…
Mumbai: Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations will now be a mandatory first step at any retail fuel outlet being developed on Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) land under the public-private partnership (PPP) model, MSRTC chairman and state transport minister Pratap Sarnaik announced on Tuesday after convening an ST board meeting.Sarnaik said officials were directed…
Mumbai: A sessions court issued an open-dated arrest warrant against alleged gang leader Kumar Pillai in connection with a 2007 shooting that left one man dead and another seriously injured. While Pillai had previously been extradited from Singapore a decade ago to face charges in three other cases, police recently discovered that he remained a…
Aircraft carrying Ajit Pawar had met with accident in 2023 MUMBAI: The Learjet 45 XR aircraft in which Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar died on Wednesday had been involved in a crash earlier as well, making this the second accident linked to a VSR Ventures-owned jet in Maharashtra in the past two-and-a-half years, officials…
