Mumbai: The Bombay High Court recently stated that it is only the wife who has the choice of selecting the forum to file domestic violence proceedings. The court imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on a husband, to be paid to his estranged wife, while rejecting his plea to transfer a domestic violence case…
New Delhi: AIIMS has reported carbide gun-related eye injuries for the first time in the city this Diwali, along with a sharp rise in firecracker-linked ocular trauma. One hundred and ninety patients with serious eye injuries were treated at the hospital emergency, a 19% increase from last year. “Out of them, about 60 required emergency…
Pune: State govt has given administrative approval to Indrayani River Rejuvenation Project, which will be implemented by Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC).Civic officials, however, said ground work is unlikely to begin immediately as funds have not yet been allocated.A senior PCMC official said the civic body will now prepare a separate proposal for fund allocation…
Mumbai: The Centre Tuesday repatriated IAS officer Rajesh Aggarwal back to Maharashtra at the request of the state govt. With this, Aggarwal, an IAS officer of the 1989 batch, becomes the senior-most bureaucrat in the state and a frontrunner to become Maharashtra chief secretary (CS) after the extended tenure of the current CS, Rajesh Kumar…
New Delhi: Observing that there’s no point in having an arms licence if one is not allowed to keep ammunition for that weapon, a Delhi court dismissed a revision petition filed by Delhi Police against an order of a lower court that discharged a man accused under the Arms Act, 1959. In May 2019, Amit…
Pune: The unseasonal rain affected MSRTC’s revenue as the transport utility suffered a loss of over Rs 150 crore between June and Sept this year due to heavy rain and floods in several parts of the state.Senior officials of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) said the revenue generated during the Diwali period was…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) said it would begin protests at Azad Maidan next week and shut down all non-emergency services starting Monday until an independent Special Investigation Team (SIT), led by a retired high court judge and a senior woman IPS officer, is appointed to probe the suicide of a Phaltan-based…
New Delhi: A grey haze continued to hang over the city on Wednesday, though its air quality improved slightly from that on Tuesday. The AQI stood at 279, better than 294 a day earlier. Both the figures fall in the poor category. None of the 39 stations in the city recorded readings in the severe…
Pune: The Anti-Narcotics Task Force of Maharashtra police on Tuesday evening arrested a transgender person (21), a woman (27), and a Ghorpadi-based man (22) for allegedly possessing mephedrone. Other than the drugs, a weighing machine and a scooter — collectively estimated at Rs 4.32 lakh — were seized from them, police said.A police officer said…
Thane: A 35-year-old resident of Airoli was arrested for allegedly molesting a 29-year-old woman from Kalwa at Thane railway station on Tuesday night.The incident occurred around 7.30 pm when the woman, who works at a company in Navi Mumbai, alighted at Thane from a Trans-harbour local and was descending the middle foot overbridge at the…
