Pune: Protests against the 3.5-acre property deal between the trustees of Seth Hirachand Nemchand Digambar Jain Boarding Trust and Gokhale landmarks LLP continued unabated on Monday even after developer Vishal Gokhale conveyed his decision to exit the agreement via email on Sunday.Jain community members from Nashik and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar districts marched demanding the cancellation of…
Mumbai: Bombay high court recently frowned at the RBI ombudsman for summarily dismissing a “serious” complaint of Rs 2 crore being siphoned off from an account with a private bank in Khar West without a hearing.“This complaint could not have been disposed of in a summary manner without even minimum compliance with the principle of…
New Delhi: Police have apprehended a brother-sister duo linked to Thak-Thak gang for a spate of chain-snatching incidents across south Delhi. The accused, a 24-year-old woman and her 17-year-old brother from Dakshinpuri, were allegedly involved in multiple cases reported from Malviya Nagar, Kotla Mubarakpur and Kartavya Path. According to police, the siblings — nicknamed “Bunty…
Pune: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Monday morning arrested a software engineer, Zubair Hangargekar (35) from Kondhwa, on the charge of possessing literature of the banned terrorist organisation, al-Qaida. The ATS also detained Hangargekar’s friend at the Pune railway station for questioning soon after the two returned from Chennai. They had gone there to…
Mumbai: BEST will get 150 new wet lease buses in it’s fleet and the new buses are likely to be launched by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis at Colaba bus depot Oct 28 afternoon.Sources said that while 115 buses belong to one contractor, 35 belongs to another wet lease operator, sources said.The BEST had faced acute…
New Delhi: A 54-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stealing over Rs 20 lakh from a bag he found on a scooter in northwest Delhi’s Pitampura. The incident came to light when the proprietor of a private firm supplying house wires, with a godown in Mangolpuri, reported that a bag containing Rs 20.73 lakh…
Pune: PMC commissioner Naval Kishore Ram on Monday said the administration was prioritising the removal of traffic bottlenecks and enhancing vehicular movement across the city.“The focus is on utilising existing funds to upgrade the current road network and remove traffic bottlenecks,” the civic chief said.Ram has been visiting different parts of the city to assess…
Mumbai: An FIR was registered against a 32-year-old man for sexually harassing a young woman in Goregaon West while she was returning from a public lavatory recently. The accused, Yasin Shaikh, is a welder.The incident occurred on Oct 25. The 24-year-old victim was on her way to a public lavatory around 11.30 pm when someone…
New Delhi: A 16-year-old girl has been apprehended after the car she was driving fatally hit a 64-year-old man who was crossing the road in northwest Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy earlier this week. The sedan involved in the incident was found to be owned by the girl’s mother. Police received information on Oct 23 from a…
Pune: Inadequate sunlight and prolonged rainfall across Maharashtra severely affected grape plantations, said scientists from the National Research Centre for Grapes (NRCG) and warned that the state could lose up to 50% of its total harvest this season.Teams of NRCG scientists, who recently inspected vineyards in Nashik, Sangli, Solapur, Dharashiv and Pune districts, found alarmingly…
