Mumbai/Kolkata/Hyderabad: Politics and the pulsating anger of Pahalgam and its aftermath put the fabled acrimony of an India-Pakistan cricket match in the shade on Sunday as the two sides took the field at the Asia Cup in Dubai.Shiv Sena (UBT) and BJP traded bouncers in Maharashtra, with the former calling the match “an insult to…
New Delhi: In April 2015, Shahnawaz was brutally killed in a road rage incident in front of his two sons in central Delhi’s Daryaganj. Nearly a decade later, on Sept 12, the Tis Hazari Court sentenced four individuals to life imprisonment for his murder—delivering long-awaited justice to his grieving family.Tragically, ACP Amrit Raj, the officer…
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday assured that the long-pending issue of faculty recruitment in state universities will be resolved soon, claiming that 80% of over 11,000 vacant teaching posts will be filled in coming weeks, while approval for the remaining 20% will follow shortly. Fadnavis admitted that the shortage of teaching faculty and…
Mumbai: Nearly 95,000 passenger vehicles in Maharashtra are now fitted with mandatory tracking devices that allow real-time monitoring and onboard SOS alert facilities to boost commuter safety, especially for women, officials said on Sunday.These GPS-enabled Vehicle Location Tracking Devices (VLTD) also allow authorities to pinpoint a vehicle’s location instantly from the newly set-up control room…
New Delhi: Delhi Police’s Crime Branch has busted a visa fraud racket operating from south Delhi’s Zamrudpur, arresting three men for allegedly duping foreign job seekers. The accused—Deepak Pandey (33), Yash Singh (23), and Wasim Akram (25) — posed as representatives of a global outsourcing company handling visa, passport, and consular services. They allegedly extorted…
Pune: The merger of 34 ‘fringe areas’ into Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) over the past decade has made it the largest civic body in Maharashtra.Spanning over approximately 520sqkm as per its official website, PMC beats even the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in size (around 440sqkm). Today, however, lakhs of residents living in neighbourhoods that were…
Growing up was an “immersive experience” for Gauri Krishnan. Paintings, music, books… her Vadodara household was steeped in art which included, in the 1980s, a series of skulls her abstractionist father, Ratan Parimoo, painted even as her printmaker mother, Naina Dalal, asked him to stop. “The surrealist skulls were frightening to others,” recalls Krishnan, “but,…
New Delhi: As the run-up to the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections heats up, the campus is buzzing with promises and power plays. Student outfits are centring their campaigns this year on everyday concerns that directly affect campus life.Key demands include metro fare concessions, free campus Wi-Fi, subsidised health insurance and improved facilities for…
Pune: Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said ethanol has “saved sugarcane farmers and sugar factories in the state”. Gadkari was speaking at the tenth anniversary of Naam Foundation, an organisation started by actors Makarand Anaspure and Nana Patekar for watershed management and drought mitigation. At the event, he said,…
Thane: A Thane court has acquitted all 17 accused in a 2015 rioting case in which police personnel were injured and public property was damaged here, citing “total failure of identification” and serious investigative lapses.The prosecution’s evidence was insufficient to prove the guilt of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt, Additional Sessions Judge Vasudha L…
