NEW DELHI: A man and his two sons were attacked with a knife by their brothers-in-law following tensions between the man’s son and his wife in Delhi’s Alipur on Saturday. Fariyad, 62, and his sons Sabir, 40, and Imran, 36, sustained injuries in the incident.The conflict stemmed from ongoing marital problems between Imran and his…
Pune: The Maharashtra State Cooperative Housing Federation has hailed a recent Bombay high court ruling that states housing societies do not require permission or a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the deputy registrar of cooperative societies for redevelopment or self-redevelopment. The federation believes this judgment will significantly curb corruption, eliminate middlemen, and expedite thousands of stalled…
Mumbai: A 1.6-km stretch of Bandra’s Turner Road towards Perry Road near Carter Road exemplifies the redevelopment frenzy gripping the city. For a passerby, the transformation over recent years has been astonishing; the skyline along this relatively narrow and congested Bandra (W) stretch has dramatically altered.Formerly characterised by bungalows and low-rise two to three-storey buildings,…
New Delhi: Mohammad Adnan Khan, a 19-year-old alleged Islamic State operative arrested recently, mostly kept to himself and spent time with his family, his father claimed on Saturday. Khan lived with his parents in a flat in south Delhi’s Sadiq Nagar. His arrest by Delhi Police‘s special cell on charges of association with IS has…
Kolhapur/Pune: The Satara police arrested a techie and a police sub-inspector on Saturday in connection with the alleged rape and abetment of suicide of a 28-year-old doctor employed at the Phaltan sub-district hospital.While the techie was arrested early in the morning, the police sub-inspector surrendered before the Phaltan rural police late in the night, a…
Mumbai: A war of words erupted between the Congress and the BJP following the distribution of Diwali faral by the latter ahead of the upcoming BMC election. The Congress alleged that the faral packets carried a message reading ‘Batoge to katoge’ (If you get divided, you will get destroyed).Accusing the BJP of using the festival…
New Delhi: Union health minister JP Nadda on Saturday urged young doctors to balance innovation with empathy, saying that while artificial intelligence and robotics are transforming healthcare, “the heart behind healing must never fade”.Speaking at the 50th convocation of AIIMS Delhi, where 326 medical students received their degrees, Nadda congratulated the graduates, faculty and parents,…
Pune: The agrarian village of Jambut, nestled in Shirur tehsil around 90km from the city, continues to face an escalating threat from leopard attacks, casting a pall over its once-flourishing sugar cane fields, transforming a symbol of prosperity into a landscape marked by fear and sorrow.Over the past three years, four villagers have lost their…
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena (UBT) took a dig at chief minister Devendra Fadnavis after revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule gave a statement warning BJP workers that their mobile phones and WhatsApp groups are “under surveillance”. An editorial in Saamna, the party mouthpiece, said Bawankule is an important member of ‘Team Devendra’. Therefore, the statement he made…
New Delhi: Water minister Parvesh Verma on Saturday said that the govt’s efforts to clean the Yamuna have started showing strong and measurable results. In seven months, the fecal coliform (human waste contamination) levels in the river have dropped significantly. “We promised to clean the Yamuna within three years, and I am proud to say…
