New Delhi: Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) may have been painting a rosier picture of the effectiveness of the city’s sewage treatment facilities than what reality suggests. TOI visited two major sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Rithala and Nilothi with a combined treatment capacity of 140 MGD (million gallons per day), and found them discharging…
Pune: Deputy chief minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar on Friday hit out at minister of state for civil aviation and Pune’s BJP MP Murlidhar Mohol for levelling corruption allegations against Maharashtra Olympics Association (MOA) secretary Namdev Shirgaonkar.“Mohol has levelled the corruption allegations only because he is eyeing (MOA) elections,” said Ajit Pawar, who has…
Mumbai: Traffic Police have tweaked vehicular restrictions in Worli as the closure of the Elphinstone bridge has been resulting in congestion at Shriram Mill naka. Police said that at Shriram Mill naka, where Dainik Shivner Marg and SS Amrutrao Marg meet, there is not enough space for motorists to turn right. So vehicles coming from…
New Delhi: A PCR police personnel was found dead with gunshot injury in central Delhi’s LNJP area on Friday morning. Police suspect that he died by suicide. The deceased has been identified as a sub-inspector of Delhi Police. He was a father of two sons and his wife had suffered paralysis five months ago.In another…
Pune: When Abhijeet Gandhi entered a restaurant in 2023, and asked for a ‘table for one’, he was greeted by awkward stares and then given the corner-most table at the restaurant. “It was a table with no view, which no one would voluntarily choose. I took it anyway. I could see families of four, six,…
Mumbai: What began as a modest catering request at a Powai tea stall turned into the first link in Thursday’s hostage crisis. Rohan Aher, who police said worked with Rohit Aarrya as a production assistant, approached the stall owner, Umesh Tiwari, asking if he could supply tea and food to the nearby RA studio “for…
New Delhi: The Shahdara Bar Association on Friday issued a notice that all police officers posted within the jurisdiction of the Karkardooma district courts would be barred from entering the complex because of the “misconduct, arrogant attitude and rude behaviour” by them towards advocates.The notice, issued by bar association secretary Narveer Dabas, said that “repeated…
Thane: Deputy CM Eknath Shinde and Shiv Sena chief leader stated that the party would bear the wedding expenses of children of farmers affected by the recent natural calamity. Shinde made the announcement after inaugurating a 51-foot-high idol of Lord Vitthal at Upvan Lake Friday night.“The Mahayuti govt is assisting the farmers in every possible…
New Delhi: The month-long strike by around 4,250 Municipal Corporation of Delhi‘s domestic breeding checkers and contractual field workers ended on Friday after assurances from a 10-member committee set up by the civic body. Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh said the committee would examine demands for pay parity, medical leave and other benefits. One of the…
Mumbai: A 26-year-old rickshaw driver, identified as Saib Ali Pathan, was killed in a hit-and-run incident near Baiganwadi Signal in Govandi early Thursday morning.According to the complaint lodged by his sister Afsana Gulsar Ali Syed, the accident occurred around 1.53 am when Saib Ali and his friend Suraj Kale were crossing the road near Aksa…
