Mumbai: A minor fire broke out in the old CT scan section of JJ Hospital’s main building in Byculla West early Saturday morning. The incident was reported to the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) at 4.35 am.According to fire officials, the blaze was confined to the CT scan room on the ground floor of the hospital’s…
New Delhi: Delhi govt will enforce the use of recycled construction & demolition (C&D) waste in construction projects, urban development minister Ashish Sood said after a meeting with officials of multiple departments. Officials from the urban development department, DJB, PWD, DDA, NDMC, MCD, power discoms, DPCC and others participated in the meeting. The ministry of…
Congress member Nitin Partani has filed a petition in Bombay high court objecting to the delimitation of ward 24 Kasba-Kamla Nehru Hospital-KEM Hospital.He claims that names of many voters from scheduled castes were deleted which may adversely impact the reservation and geographical continuity to form the ward was not followed.Partani has requested the court to…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has quashed a dowry-harassment FIR lodged on a complaint from a woman against the family members of her husband. It noted that the allegations were vague.“The complaint, when considered as a whole, does not reflect any act of harassment or cruelty,” Justice Neena Bansal Krishna said in a recent verdict.The…
Pune: The Khadki police on Thursday registered a case of extortion against a resident (30) of Bopodi on the charge of extorting Rs4 lakh from his neighbour by threatening to share her private photographs with her husband and relatives. The woman sold her gold jewellery and borrowed money to meet the demand of suspect. As…
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) submitted a chargesheet against former Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCM) civic chief Anil Pawar (IAS), deputy director of town planning Y S Reddy, and 16 others in a money laundering case linked to the construction of illegal buildings.During the investigation, the ED attached properties worth approximately Rs 71 crore belonging…
New Delhi: The residents of Triveni Apartments in Sector 16B-Dwarka have urged DDA to investigate the recent basement floor collapse as a priority and extend the complex’s maintenance period from 10 to 30 years. They said that they have been facing persistent seepage, cracks and incomplete finishing work since the beginning of the allotment of…
Pune: The Pune Zilla Parishad (ZP) will organize a literary festival for ZP school students from Nov 13 to 14.On the inaugural day, a book rally (Granth Dindi) will be held and during the two-day event, students will have the opportunity to interact directly with renowned authors and literary figures.The festival aims to provide a…
Thane: Thane Crime Branch Unit-1 made the third arrest in the ongoing drug case, taking into custody Nikita Joshi (26), the daughter of prime accused Mohanlal Joshi, a pharmacist caught in July with 1.2 kg of mephedrone (MD) powder worth Rs 1.7 crore.Joshi, a resident of Kudus village in Palghar’s Wada taluka, was earlier arrested…
New Delhi: A local park in Zakir Nagar came alive on a bright morning with the thud of footballs. On the field was a group of girls, darting across, passing, dribbling, shouting and scoring.Before bending it like beckham on the field, the girls had bent the rules of expectations at home and in their neighbourhoods….
