Thane: Traffic on the busy Mumbra bypass was briefly disrupted on Sunday evening after a boulder rolled down near Rehmania Hospital. Fortunately, no injuries were reported in the incident, officials said.According to information received from Thane Municipal Corporation’s Disaster Management Cell, at 7.44 pm, a boulder fell on the lane leading from Shil to Thane,…
NEW DELHI: Police arrested a 45-year-old man, who allegedly strangled his wife, before trying to pass it off as suicide, in northwest Delhi’s Tri Nagar early on Sunday.The man made a PCR call at 1.05 am and said, “My wife has hanged herself. The room’s door is locked.” He identified himself as Dinesh Sharma, a…
Satara doctor’s cousin demands SIT probe, alleges political and police pressure before her suicide NEW DELHI: The cousin of a woman doctor who allegedly died by suicide in Maharashtra’s Satara has demanded a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe, alleging that she had been under “immense political and police pressure” for over a year and was…
Mumbai: She will no longer have to conduct car and two-wheeler driving tests nor inspect any commercial vehicle such as autos and buses for fitness in Thane. Sujata Madke (29), is elated today as she took a ‘big leap’ from her RTO role as assistant inspector at the Thane office to being appointed as a…
NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday announced that Monday, October 27, will be observed as a public holiday in the national capital on account of the Chhath festival, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said in a statement.The festival, celebrated with grandeur and devotion, has seen elaborate preparations across the city this year….
Pune: The country’s first Sainik School at Satara, founded in 1961, is undergoing a major renovation with a Rs 450-crore fund sanctioned by govt.The public works department (PWD), which is executing the project, said the first phase, worth Rs 283 crore, is currently in progress.“We have already built three hostels for cadets and residential quarters,…
Mumbai: Many parts of the state, including Mumbai, Konkan, northern Maharashtra and Vidarbha, will continue to see light to moderate unseasonal rain and thunderstorms till Wednesday owing to the merging of two low pressure systems and active depressions in the Arabian Sea, IMD has predicted. MMR had received showers in the past few days owing…
New Delhi: As the first rays of the sun filter through Delhi’s highrises, pockets of the city prepare for a centuries-old ritual carried out across time and thousands of kilometres from the riverbanks of Bihar, Jharkhand and eastern Uttar Pradesh.Chhath Puja, a four-day festival devoted to the Sun God, is more than a spiritual observance…
Pune: Proposed nearly eight years ago, there has been minimal progress in the cluster development initiative aimed at redeveloping old wadas and deteriorating buildings in the city, data from Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has revealed.The issue has resurfaced following opposition from residents of Lokmanyanagar, a locality comprising 52 housing societies and over 800 flats. Many…
Mumbai: In a first, the BMC has unveiled a bustling commercial world lying behind the narrow lanes and corrugated roof-tops of Mumbai’ slums. By identifying and levying tax on close to 8,000 such units, in an exercise it started only this year, the civic body has managed to generate property tax bills worth about Rs…
