Mumbai: Maharashtra minister Ashish Shelar instructed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday to strengthen the dashboard on road concretisation works to ensure transparency and usefulness for citizens. He stated that contractors responsible for damaging utilities be penalised and trenches dug along roads be rebuilt within 15 days.“The dashboard should enable people to directly upload…
New Delhi: Former JNU student Umar Khalid submitted on Wednesday that courts had found “fabrication of evidence” in 17 cases related to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots. Senior advocate Trideep Pais made the submission while appearing before additional sessions judge Sameer Bajpai to oppose the framing of charges against Khalid in the larger conspiracy case…
Pune: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said citizens should maintain positive thoughts about Kashmiris and the Muslim community in the Valley, stressing that they consistently stood by the nation in testing times. Pawar said some elements were trying to create misunderstandings between Kashmiris and the rest of the country, but the citizens should…
Mumbai: A scrap with a co-traveller while getting off a local train left a 47-year-old commuter with injuries to his face caused by a wrench.The incident took place when the victim, Suresh Patil, was travelling in a packed second class compartment of a Borivli-bound train from Virar on Sept 22. Around 10.15am, while getting off…
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday announced that Union home minister Amit Shah would inaugurate 46 projects aimed at the revival of the Yamuna on Sept 30. The projects will cost over Rs 4,000 crore. Delhi Jal Board is gearing up for the grand inauguration of its biggest 124 million gallons per day…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed Maharashtra govt to reply to a petition by an independent journalist seeking police protection as she was facing life threats.Chief justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad were hearing a plea by Sneha Barve, founder editor of Samarth Bharat newspaper and Samarth Bharat Pariwar, a You Tube…
Mumbai: No hoarding will be allowed on footpaths and digital ones should not be taller than traffic signals, the state govt has said based on the recommendations of a high-level inquiry committee set up following the Ghatkopar hoarding crash that killed 17 persons in May last year. It also said civic bodies must prepare and…
New Delhi: Delhi Police’s special cell has busted an illegal cartridge manufacturing factory in Moradabad allegedly supplying bullets to criminals of Delhi, UP and Haryana. Three suspected suppliers have been arrested while the hunt is on for others.Additional commissioner Pramod Kushwaha said the factory only prepared ammunition and was discovered near the residence of one…
Mumbai: Major General Vivek Tyagi, recently appointed as Additional Director General of the Maharashtra NCC Directorate, made a courtesy call on Advocate Manikrao Kokate, Hon’ble Sports & Youth Affairs Minister of Maharashtra, at Mantralaya in Mumbai. The meeting briefed on important ongoing NCC initiatives, including the expansion being undertaken to increase the enrolled strength of…
NEW DELHI: Delhi govt has permitted the use of loudspeakers until midnight instead of 10pm for Ramlila and Durga Puja celebrations with CM Rekha Gupta arguing that Hindu festivals “face difficulties due to restricted timings for use of loudspeakers”. The relaxation, in force till Oct 3, comes even as 20 of 26 noise monitoring stations…
