MUMBAI: In its continued efforts to promote the culture of reading and boost reading habit among youngsters and students, the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL), under Union Ministry of Education, is holding a massive Urdu Kitab Mela or Urdu Book Fair at Aligarh.To be held between November 22 and 30 at Cultural…
New Delhi: New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has drawn up a plan to roll out its long-pending intelligent parking system across Lutyens’ Delhi to provide advanced and user-friendly parking to commuters.After several failed attempts over the past few years to appoint an expert agency for the project, the civic body revised the operational framework for…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad police on Wednesday arrested a 21-year-old tattoo artist in connection with the murder of a 40-year-old man, who was allegedly strangled to death by his wife in Chinchwad on Friday. The accused, identified as Siddharth Deepak Pawar (21), was a common friend of the deceased and his wife, and lived in…
Mumbai’s pioneering community biogas plant, a beacon of sustainable waste management at Pali Hill, has abruptly ceased operations after eight years. The plant, which powered streetlights using neighbourhood waste, was shut down due to operational unfeasibility cited by the appointed agency. Residents and local authorities are now in talks to revive this award-winning initiative. MUMBAI:…
Teen tried as adult, convicted for brutal Delhi rape-murder of 60-year-old NEW DELHI: A city court convicted a 16-year-old teen, who was being tried as an adult, for the rape and murder of a 60-year-old woman in 2017, reports Vineet Upadhyay. Taking note of the post-mortem report, additional sessions judge Amit Sahrawat said Tuesday that…
Pune: Eleven-year-old Jyotidevi Joginder Singh from Juthala village, located along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir, got a new lease of life—and a reason to smile again—after she received an advanced artificial limb at the Artificial Limb Centre (ALC) in Pune.A student of Standard V, Singh lost her right leg below the knee in…
Mumbai: Two men were held by the North Region Cyber Police for duping a senior citizen of Rs 50.5 lakh in a digital arrest scam.The complainant is a retired bank official. Between Sept 11 to 24, he received audio and video calls over WhatsApp from an individual claiming to be a Nashik police officer. He…
As per CPCB, Delhi recorded an overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of 357, sharply up from 279 a day earlier. NEW DELHI: A thick blanket of haze and fog descended over Delhi on Thursday morning, trapping pollutants close to the ground and pushing city’s air quality into the ‘very poor’ category after several days of…
Pune: The govt is “positive and open” about the demand of a loan waiver, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said and urged former MLA Bachhu Kadu and farmers to withdraw their protest at Wardha road in Nagpur and join discussions. Later in the day, farmers suspended their protest after Kadu accepted Fadnavis’s offer through…
Mumbai: Three years after the issue first came to light, hundreds of schools across Maharashtra continue to operate illegally without govt recognition or regulation, even after repeated directives to shut them down. While some action has been taken, official data shows that many institutions remain outside the education department’s oversight, and the overall situation remains…
