Thane: In a rare coincidence, Thane District Court convicted two brothers in separate cases of violence against their own parents. While one was convicted and sentenced to life for murdering his mother, his elder brother was convicted for the assault of his uncle but acquitted in his father’s murder case.Principal District and Sessions Judge S.B….
New Delhi: A slew of events took off on Wednesday with the involvement of Delhi’s chief minister, Rekha Gupta, and her cabinet, who celebrated Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s 75th birthday with gusto.Gupta inaugurated the Sugamya Delhi Abhiyan at Central Vista on Kartavya Path. She also flagged off the NAMO Sugamya Rath, a vehicle to be…
Pune: State Election Commission (SEC) has again directed all election officials involved in local body elections to finish ward formation by Oct 31, following the Supreme Court’s firm deadline of Jan 31, 2026, to complete the polls in Maharashtra, senior election officials told TOI on Wednesday.The elections, expected to be held in three phases, will…
Mumbai: Busting the lid off a human trafficking and cyber slavery racket, the South Region Cyber Police arrested one individual from Mira Road on Wednesday. Police said the accused, Salman Shaikh, had trafficked at least seven Indians to Laos, via Thailand, earlier this year under the guise of placements. However their passports were taken away…
Ghaziabad/New Delhi: The Noida STF and Delhi Police special cell in a joint operation killed two persons allegedly wanted in connection with the firing at actress Disha Patani‘s house in Bareilly.The two were killed in an encounter in Tronica City in Ghaziabad on Wednesday night.According to police, the alleged criminals were identified as Ravindra, a…
Pune: After issuing a govt resolution (GR) based on the Hyderabad gazette to provide Kunbi certificates to eligible Maratha applicants, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said Maharashtra govt has received no complaints of certificates being denied to any eligible applicants. Following Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange’s recent agitation in Mumbai, state govt issued a…
Vasai: The arrest last month of Vasai-Virar civic body’s deputy director of town planning Y S Reddy, along with its former commissioner Anil Pawar, in a money laundering case linked to an alleged illegal construction and corruption racket has had an unexpected fallout: building project plans waiting for approval have piled up owing to staff…
New Delhi: Turning your old petrol or diesel vehicle into an electric one could come with some benefits, with Delhi govt considering incentives for retrofitting older vehicles under its forthcoming EV policy. Policies to promote this initiative will soon be rolled out. An official added that govt would also offering subsidies to bring down the…
Pune: Scientists at ICMR-National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, have found that the bird flu strains, reported in Kerala last year, entered India in all likelihood from East Asia. This is for the first time that the ICMR-NIV scientists have mapped the entry route of the recent bird flu strains to India and its spread…
Mumbai: Union minister and Mumbai-North MP Piyush Goyal on Wednesday announced the introduction of mammography units to screen women for cancer as part of BMC’s Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar campaign. The units would be deployed in every slum in his constituency, said Goyal, who also assured the distribution of nutritional food to pregnant women through…
