Pune: More than 650 students of a city-based school, ranging from eight to 14 years old, participated in a non-profit film-based learning project in Sept, wherein they could imbibe lessons about the natural world through the medium of cinema.This ‘Stories of Nature’ initiative, which has been launched in its pilot phase in Pune by The…
Mumbai: Police have booked the developer, contractor, and supervisor for negligence in connection with the Sept 7 fire at an SRA building in Dahisar (E), which killed three women and left 22 others injured.The FIR was registered on Sept 12 based on a complaint filed by autorickshaw driver Mahesh Patel, who lost his aunt, Madhu…
New Delhi: New Delhi Municipal Council laid on Thursday the foundation stone for the subway project connecting Bhai Veer Singh Marg with the under-construction Gole Market museum located at the roundabout.The subway will be equipped with lifts for differently abled people at the entry and exit points. “The construction will cost around Rs 1.9 crore,…
Pune: The Indian Medical Association on Thursday threatened to escalate its agitation if state govt does not within seven days stay the Sept 5 notification that authorises registration of homeopaths (BHMS), who have completed the one-year certificate course in modern pharmacology, with the Maharashtra Medical Council. The 24-hour token strike, called in protest against the…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Thursday asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to reply to a petition by Anilkumar Pawar, former commissioner of Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC), alleging illegal detention by the agency in its investigation into unauthorised construction of 41 residential and commercial buildings.Pawar was arrested on Aug 13. His petition urged HC…
New Delhi: A day after the Delhi chief electoral officer said the preparation for the special intensive revision (SIR) of the voters’ list in the city had begun, Delhi BJP welcomed the move on Thursday. In the past two decades, the party had made every effort to cleanse the list, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva…
Pune: Ahead of Navaratra, and the upcoming festival season, the city retailers’ association has issued guidelines to the shopkeepers underlining cleanliness of roads and waste segregation.Shopkeepers were directed to mandatorily follow provisions related to dustbins and not to encroach on footpaths and road spaces.The markets in the city have started bustling with people before the…
Thousands of doctors in Maharashtra went on a one-day strike on Thursday against govt’s decision to allow homeopaths to practise modern medicines based on a short course, citing risks to public health. The strike, led by Indian Medical Association (IMA), had a significant impact across the state; many clinics and hospitals in Mumbai were functional….
New Delhi: The special cell has found a large quantity of potassium nitrate, a key ingredient for making IEDs, in searches conducted after busting a terror module allegedly planning targeted killings and blasts. Last week, Delhi Police, in coordination with central intelligence agencies, uncovered an ISIS-inspired terror module operating in the capital and arrested five…
Pune: A 29-year-old man sustained a bullet injury when a member of a criminal gang fired a round at him with a country-made pistol following a verbal exchange over ‘blocking their way’ in Shastrinagar, barely 200m from the Kothrud police station during the night intervening Wednesday and Thursday.The shooter was part of a gang of…
