Thane: A fire broke out in the balcony of a Hiranandani Estate high rise late on Monday. No one was injured. The blaze was restricted to the balcony of one of the upper floor flats and was controlled by residents and staff of the high rise. Initial information revealed that a stray firecracker may have…
Mumbai: An injured spotted deer was rescued from the Kanjurmarg area in a joint operation by the wildlife rescue team of Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare (RAWW) and the state forest department on Sunday evening.A distress call was reported to the Mumbai Range control room of the Thane Territorial Wing of Maharashtra Forest Department regarding…
Mumbai: Borivli Railway Police arrested a 28-year-old man on Saturday for allegedly molesting a woman at Borivli railway station. The accused, a video editor, was arrested from the spot after he was found to be drunk. He had come to the station to catch train after partying. Police said the incident occurred when the victim…
Ahmed AliMumbai: The Bombay High Court granted interim protection from arrest to a Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) superintendent, Abhishek Katiyar, who was accused in a corruption case. The CBI accused him of demanding a Rs 1 crore bribe to “settle” an inquiry related to alleged GST evasion by two private companies.Justice N R…
Mumbai: Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Monday said while his party supports MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s claim of 96 lakh bogus voters in the state’s poll rolls, it has never said it won’t contest the BMC elections.“We only said that the voter list should be corrected first,” he said when asked about Raj challenging…
Pune: The city police are investigating how an empty ammunition box of 2017 make, meant for storing 5.6mm bullets, landed in gangster Nilesh Ghaywal’s residence in Kothrud. The police found this box during a search of Ghaywal’s residence and office on Oct 6. They found empty cartridges and some live cartridges, and a case was…
New Delhi: Institutions previously known as Schools of Specialized Excellence (SOSE) and Schools of Excellence (SoE) will now be called CM Shri Schools. A total of 75 such schools have been brought under this new identity by the Delhi govt. A new directive by DoE mentions that this change will take effect from the 2025-26…
Pune: Fire broke out in an old wada located near Chimnya Ganapati Chowk in the centre of the city in Sadashiv Peth around 8.15pm on Sunday. No one was injured in the incident, but it caused panic among the local residents and shopkeepers. The fire brigade officials extinguished the fire within half an hour.The fire…
NAVI MUMBAI: The body of motivational speaker from Bengaluru, professor Shanmuga S Balasubramanian (58), was retrieved from more than 1,200 ft deep valley of King George view point cliff, Matheran, on Sunday. He had arrived to deliver a lecture for the management team of a company but was last seen on the CCTV camera leaving…
New Delhi: Observing that dismissal from service is an extreme measure that disrupts an employee’s family and abruptly ends their livelihood, Delhi High Court has set aside the termination of a CRPF personnel and ordered his reinstatement. A bench of Justices C Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla said dismissal should not be taken routinely,…
