MUMBAI: Seven members of Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) recently quit the party and switched over to the Congress, becoming office beaters in the city Congress.While Abul Hasan Khan was president of the VBA (Mumbai), Syed Mohd Mehdi Rizvi was general secretary of VBA , Suresh Sunder Shetty was ex-president of VBA, Adv. Satish Gunderao Shinde…
New Delhi: A 15-year-old student has been identified as the sender of a bomb threat email to Vishal Bharti Public School in west Delhi’s Paschim Vihar on Thursday. The student, enrolled at the same school, allegedly sent the email to get his assessments cancelled and secure a day off. The school received the threatening email…
Pune: Oxford University Press India (OUP) launched two new Marathi dictionaries, the Compact Marathi-English Dictionary and Mini Marathi-English Dictionary, on Wednesday. The dictionary covers showcase handcrafted wooden artworks from Sawantwadi, a town in Sindhudurg district, and celebrate India’s cultural and linguistic diversity, a statement from OUP said.Managing director Sukanta Das in his statement said, “With…
Mumbai: Choreographer and dancer Manya Aggarwal has just wrapped an OTT platform movie in which she worked as an assistant choreographer and dancer. Currently, she is teaching kids Bollywood and Hip Hop dance and also performing gigs in the US. Passionate about dance from a very young age, it was her mother who first spotted…
New Delhi: A thief has voluntarily returned gold jewellery worth Rs 25 lakh that was stolen from a house in central Delhi’s Anand Parbat early Oct. Police are yet to identify the person.On Oct 5, a complaint was filed about the theft and the owner told police that he had left for his cyber cafe…
Pune: India was long “addicted” to importing weapons from foreign nations, but Operation Sindoor stood as a shining example of the country’s growing self-reliance in the defence sector, said defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday.Singh said for decades after Independence, India had slipped into a comfort zone when it came to military procurement. “There was…
MUMBAI: Inert waste from the Deonar landfill will be used as constrution material for the Dharavi redevelopment project. Under the plan, the state has identified several land parcels in suburbs such as Deonar, Kanjurmarg and Malad for relocating residents who are deemed “ineligible” for in-situ Dharavi housing. The MoU grants NMDPL rights to develop over…
New Delhi: What began as a routine complaint of nasal blockage turned into one of the most extraordinary medical cases doctors at Manipal Hospital, Dwarka, ever encountered. A 33-year-old woman, troubled by months of nasal congestion and watery discharge, visited the hospital assuming it was a stubborn sinus infection. But scans revealed something far more…
Pune: The Nigdi police have arrested two men of the Nigdi Ota Scheme area on the charge of attempting to murder an autorickshaw driver and his two friends on Sunday. The incident followed heated arguments over the duo harassing the auto driver’s wife over the phone. Later, the auto driver (27) lodged a complaint with…
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on October 14 approved the sale of herbal hookah in restaurants, allowing a plea by 12 owners of hookah bars to operate their businesses without constant police raids and threats of shutdown when they broke no law. Justices Riyaz Chagla and Farhan Dubash stated that the petitioners are “not prohibited”…
