Mumbai: A fire broke out in a flat on the 22nd floor of a 29-storey building on Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road around 10.15pm Monday. Residents said a firecracker might have fallen on the balcony of a flat in Maxima society. No one was injured. “The fire brigade was informed, but we told them not to come…
New Delhi: With festivities in full swing, the city has been generating up to 20% more waste than usual. While Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) claims to have deployed its entire workforce to manage this increased load and assured residents that the situation will normalise by Wednesday, many across the city are complaining about delays…
Pune: The department of disability welfare issued a govt resolution last week to ensure uniformity in the functioning of all civil society organisations and instituions working with persons with disabilities (PwD) and to enhance their accountability and service quality. This resolution introduced a system requiring annual registration, inspection, monitoring and renewal of registration certificates.While the…
Mumbai: After it recently scrapped the Rs 12-crore Urdu Learning Centre project in Byculla, BMC recovered Rs 4 crore from the state skill development department as the construction cost and said it will formally hand over the land parcel for an Industrial Training Institute (ITI) after the pending rent of Rs 44 lakh is received,…
NEW DELHI: Widespread bursting of firecrackers beyond the time window permitted by Supreme Court on Diwali night drove Delhi’s air quality deeper into the ‘very poor’ category on Tuesday.The surge of toxic smoke, laden with pollutants and heavy metals, caused the city’s average hourly PM2.5 levels to touch 675 micrograms/cubic metre at midnight, the highest…
Pune: As Diwali celebrations light up the city, at least 35 eye-related injuries caused by firecrackers have been reported in the last four days. Many victims were innocent bystanders — either simply watching the fireworks or unknowingly caught in the zone.Doctors said most injuries are treatable with anti-inflammatory medicines and steroids, but some serious cases…
Mumbai: Tuesday’s sudden evening showers caught many Mumbaikars off guard, dampening festive spirits and disrupting fireworks. Western and south-central areas including Goregaon, Andheri, Jogeshwari, and Bandra saw light spells of rain through the evening, forcing shoppers and Diwali revellers to rush for cover.Rainfall across Mumbai was patchy. Both IMD Colaba and Santacruz observatories recorded negligible…
New Delhi: A five-year-old boy was allegedly kidnapped, hit with bricks and then stabbed to death in Narela on Tuesday, hours after he went missing from outside his home. The accused, who worked as a driver for the boy’s transporter father, planned the murder to take revenge, said police. He is absconding.The Narela Industrial Area…
Mumbai: The Kashigaon police station offcers Mira Road have booked 15 accused and 50 unknown people on Tuesday for assaulting three to four individuals over parking issues in Dachkul-Pada, Kashimira. Around 30 to 35 auto rickshaws were also damaged by the crowd in the assault which took place at 6am on Tuesday. The police arrived…
Thane: The Principal District and Sessions Court in Thane acquitted four accused in the 2022 Waklan murder case, observing that the prosecution failed to establish a clear chain of evidence linking them to the crime.The case involved the alleged killing of Mangesh Maruti Patil, a resident of Waklan village near Dahisar, who went missing on…
