Pune: NCP (SP) MP Bajarang Sonawane from Beed received flak after a video of him sitting on a makeshift boat and a few people in white clothes pulling it through waist-high floodwaters surfaced on social media on Tuesday. Sonawane was reviewing the flood situation in Beed district. A local said, “Any MP is expected to…
Mumbai: A 14-year-old boy died by suicide at his Malad residence on Tuesday afternoon while his mother was at work.Police said the boy was found hanging from a ladder around 2.30 pm at Ambewadi. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead. No suicide note was recovered. After the post-mortem, his…
Thane: An orthopedic surgeon from Ambernath has been booked for rape on the complaint of a woman whose husband was his patient. After the husband died, the doctor sexually exploited the widow promising marriage. Police said the doctor became close to the widow, assuring he would marry her and allegedly had repeated sexual relations with…
Mumbai/Nagpur/Pune: The opposition tore into the state govt on Wednesday over “inadequate” flood relief measures for farmers and its failure to declare a ‘wet drought’. Picking holes in CM Devendra Fadnavis’s declaration that all concessions typically given during drought will be extended to flood-affected people, it questioned the lack of specific announcements, such as farm…
Mumbai: Bombay high court, while granting temporary relief to legendary playback singer Asha Bhosle in her plea to protect her personality rights, said it was prima facie clear that the two US-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms and the private owner of e-commerce sites were “unauthorisedly using” her personality rights.“In my prima facie view, making AI…
Mumbai: The annual festival of Ashwin Navratra or Sharadiya Navratra will end amid a burst of colour at Vijayadashami. The abundance of marigold garlands, the red splash of ‘Sindoor Khela’ and Ravan’s effigies going up in a flash of fireworks after dusk, all promise a visual treat.Dussehra counts among the three-and-a-half mahurats for auspicious purchases….
Mumbai: After a sharp surge through the monsoon, fresh cases of vector-borne and waterborne diseases showed mixed trends in Sept, with dengue climbing further even as malaria, gastroenteritis, and leptospirosis numbers eased.These were reported in heavy numbers for the past three months. Malaria cases rose from 1,294 in July to 1,553 in Aug before dipping…
Mumbai: The unmonitored use of private consultants at Mantralaya is leading to a loot that must be curbed, state IT minister Ashish Shelar said Wednesday. Six empanelled agencies hired as many as 246 private consultants for Mantralaya, he revealed. “In some cases, a single private individual working as a consultant in multiple departments is earning…
Mumbai/Thane: The anti-corruption bureau (ACB) Wednesday detained Shankar Patole, deputy municipal commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation’s anti-encroachment department, for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 35 lakh.Officials said Patole had allegedly demanded money from Abhiraj Developers proprietor Abhijit Kadam. He had already received Rs 10 lakh earlier and was allegedly caught red-handed while accepting another…
Navi Mumbai: Four fake cops, dressed in police uniform, abducted a jeweller and his three workers, robbing him of gold and cash collectively worth Rs 34 lakh. The incident took place on Sept 26 around 11:30 pm near Karanjade railway tracks crossing. The jeweller, with his three workers, was returning from Zaveri Bazaar, Mumbai, in…
