New Delhi: Days after a gold urn valued at Rs 30 lakh was stolen from a Jain temple in Jyoti Nagar, northeast Delhi, police arrested two scrap dealers. The duo, Anwari (42) and Danish (24), claimed they had bought the urn. The theft came to light on Saturday morning when the temple was opened. The…
Pune: School education minister Dada Bhuse visited the zilla parishad (ZP) primary school in Jalindarnagar in Khed taluka which was recently awarded ‘World’s Best School’ by T4 Education, an international organisation. Bhuse visited the school on Saturday to congratulate its teachers and students, accompanied by Pune ZP CEO Gajanan Patil. He added that the achievement…
MUMBAI: After years of stalled hiring and empty classrooms, Maharashtra has finally overhauled the way its public universities recruit teachers and officials. The state govt has cut the weightage of interviews from 40% to 25% and raised the share of academic record, teaching, and research to 75%, in a bid to make appointments more transparent…
NEW DELHI: A 32-year-old man who was wanted in two robbery cases in Delhi was arrested by the crime branch recently.The accused holds an MPhil degree in chemistry from Delhi University and was previously convicted in a sensational bank robbery case in Bihar. He had used his knowledge to prepare a smoke bomb which was…
Pune: Nearly seven years after it was showcased as a model urban development project at the Magnetic Maharashtra summit, the Mhalunge-Maan town planning (TP) scheme is yet to receive the final clearance from the state govt, leaving hundreds of landowners in the throes of uncertainty. The PMRDA-led scheme, first notified in Aug 2017, was projected…
MUMBAI: Following the legendary singer Asha Bhosle’s plea for the protection of her personal rights, the Bombay high ourt on Friday granted similar interim urgent protection to action actor Suniel Shetty against unknown persons and some named e-commerce portals for flouting his rights.Justice Arif Doctor, while granting him interim relief, observed that the “unauthorized creation/uploading…
New Delhi: A decomposed body was found stuffed in a plastic bag in the Hindon Canal, near Ghazipur, in east Delhi on Saturday evening. The body was bound with brown tape, and police have not been able to figure out if the body is of a man’s or a woman’s as the degree of decomposition…
Pune: As farmers across Marathwada and other parts of Maharashtra struggle to recover from the devastation caused by incessant rain, and the govt remains focused on relief packages, activists working in rural areas warn that the crisis may run deeper than crop loss and damaged homes. Economic distress often triggers a rise in school dropouts,…
Mumbai: A production manager working at a Hindi filmmaker’s office registered a police complaint against two other employees for misappropriating a hard disc containing raw details of films and two mobile phones. Versova Police registered an FIR and are probing further.According to the FIR, the filmmaker told the complainant in March 2025 about the missing…
New Delhi: Back in 2014, Delhi Police found a low-cost, high-impact solution to tackle crimes inside city parks — bicycle patrols. The scheme had kicked off in north Delhi with eight high-performance geared bikes procured for a pilot project. They were to be on the rounds from 8-10am and 4-6pm, covering a range of parks…
