Pune/Nashik/Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Heavy to extremely heavy showers lashed parts of Maharashtra with at least four people reported dead in rain-related incidents in the 24 hours ending Monday morning.A 23-year-old engineer from Kharadi in Pune died and his friend was injured after a boulder hit them following a landslide triggered by heavy rain in the Kalu…
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) is ready to launch Phase 2B of the underground Metro Line 3 from Worli to Cuffe Parade, but final approval from the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) is still awaited. The CMRS nod is mandatory before public operations can begin.An advanced CMRS team inspected the stretch…
New Delhi: Heavy workload on air traffic controllers at the country’s busiest airport, Delhi’s IGIA, has been cited as a contributory factor to a near miss between a departing Ethiopian Airlines plane and an incoming Vistara flight on Nov 10, 2023. The planes collectively had 227 people on board.The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 was taking…
Pune: Heavy to very heavy, and in some places extremely heavy, rain lashed parts of Maharashtra in the 24 hours ending Monday morning with Matheran in Raigad recording 270mm, the second-highest single-day rainfall since 1972. This is also the highest in seven years, after 362mm recorded on Sept 20, 2017.Other parts of the Konkan region…
Mumbai: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said his govt will create a corpus fund to cover organ transplants and other treatments costing more than Rs 5 lakh. It will also expand the scope of health insurance schemes, said Fadnavis at a meeting of the State Health Assurance Society’s governing council.He directed the state medical…
New Delhi: Lamenting the display of “money and muscle power” in the ongoing DUSU election campaign, Delhi High Court on Monday warned that the violations of rules would amount to contempt of court.“If required, we will countermand your elections; we will act stricter than before. People are travelling on JCBs, tractors and luxury vehicles. Money…
Pune/Navi Mumbai: Chatushrungi police on Sunday night registered a case of obstructing public servant from performing his duty against “Manorama Khedkar, mother of dismissed IAS officer Puja Khedkar, and others” based on a complaint by sub inspector Deepak Kharat of Rabale police in Navi Mumbai.Rabale police had filed an FIR following a road rage incident…
Mumbai: The cash-strapped state govt has decided to auction space on vacant govt plots across the state for advertisement hoardings for five years at a time. Under a new hoarding policy, the revenue department has asked all district collectors to find suitable govt plots after an inspection and to e-auction the sites by specifying the…
New Delhi: In a one-of-its-kind action against organised crime in the city, two dozen teams of about 400 police personnel simultaneously raided 26 locations in NCR through Sunday night. The objective of the strike was to bust the network of overground workers and foot soldiers of various gangsters operating from foreign soil.The raids came after…
Pune: The civic body has approved a plan worth Rs 369 crore for redevelopment and flood mitigation in Ektanagari and areas near Sinhagad Road.“The estimate committee gave a go-ahead to the proposal last week. It is expected to be tabled before the standing committee soon,” said Dinkar Gojare, a senior official of Pune Municipal Corporation…
