Mumbai: Police have ruled out any terror angle in the case of Bilal Ahmed Fayaz Ahmed Teli (22), a Mangaluru resident who was caught illegally residing on IIT Powai campus early this year. Bilal’s actions stemmed from an obsession with obtaining the IIT tag to boost his academic and professional image. To achieve this, he…
New Delhi: The city recorded its lowest night temperature of the season at 18.8 degrees Celsius, two notches below normal, on Friday. It was the first time this season the minimum temperature dipped below 20 degrees Celsius at Safdarjung, the city’s base weather station. The maximum temperature on Friday was recorded at 29.9 degrees Celsius,…
Thane: Nearly 15 years after they were accused of stealing customer data and starting a rival business, two former employees of a pest control company were acquitted by a Thane court, which cited serious lapses and inconsistencies in the prosecution’s case.The accused were arrested in Oct 2010 on charges of criminal breach of trust and…
New Delhi: Delhi Police‘s crime branch has busted a drug trafficking module supplying ‘Malana Cream’ to students at prominent colleges in Hauz Khas and Qutub Institutional area. Two arrests were made and over 2,000 grams of contraband worth Rs 2 crore were seized. They were also selling it at rave parties on the city’s outskirts.DCP…
Pune: The Kothrud police on Thursday registered another case against gangster Nilesh Ghaywal, his brother, and 11 of their accomplices on the charge of grabbing 10 flats in a building in Kothrud at gunpoint. Ghaywal’s aides have been collecting rent from 10 tenants in those flats on the gangster’s behalf since 2018. One of the…
Mumbai: A special Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) court this week convicted and sentenced two men to five years’ rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 15.30 lakh on each, for a violent 2020 chain-snatching incident and for operating as members of an organised crime syndicate. The accused stole a gold chain…
New Delhi: A 34-year-old man was stabbed to death in northeast Delhi’s New Usmanpur on Thursday.The deceased has been identified as Gajender, a barber residing in Dayalpur.Police received information via a PCR call regarding a dead body in Khadar area near Khajuri Chowk.The body was shifted to a hospital for post-mortem examination.A case under Section…
Pune: Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) on Thursday said that work orders for long-pending road projects in the Chakan industrial belt will be issued before the model code of conduct for the civic elections comes into effect. The assurance came after more than 1,000 residents, workers, and industrial representatives marched 23km to PMRDA’s office…
Mumbai: Commuters were inconvenienced due to the aggregator drivers’ union’s day-long strike.There was a shortage of aggregator cabs, especially at the airports, on Thursday as a section of the drivers’ union affiliated with Bharatiya Gig Kamgar Manch called for a bandh of Ola, Uber, and Rapido cabs and autos. Many commuters were inconvenienced.The services were,…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court granted anticipatory bail to Big Boss fame Ajaz Khan on Thursday. Delhi Police’s Cyber Police Station have registered an FIR over objectionable post on social media against a YouTuber and his family. The case was filed by a woman and her son, who is a YouTuber.The Delhi HC said,…
