Mumbai: Police on Sunday arrested a woman called Kayanat Jabbar Shaikh-Qureshi (26) from her Dahisar residence in connection with a mephedrone seizure case, the first drug case in which the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) has been invoked. She had been hiding since the arrest of her nephew, Adnan Shaikh. Kayanat and…
New Delhi: Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested an arms supplier and three receivers, recovering a large cache of firearms and ammunition with links traced to the Neeraj Bawania gang and other criminal syndicates. 15 semi-automatic pistols, 150 live rounds of various calibres, and 8 additional magazines were seized.Police received an input about the circulation…
Kalyan: The Khadakpada police in Kalyan have registered a case of fraud against a Thane-based doctor couple for duping a fellow doctor and a pharmacist of Rs 70 lakh.The accused, Dr. Prasad Sali and his wife Vaishali, residents of Hiranandani Estate, Thane, promised to set up a 50-bed hospital near the RTO office in Icon…
Mumbai: MMRDA on Sunday blacklisted a sub-contractor and imposed a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on the main contractor in case of a major safety lapse in which a tragedy was averted as an iron jack fell near Bhayander bridge on Saturday evening. The incident occurred at the under-construction Mumbai Metro Line 9 site near…
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday launched the city’s first hotline maintenance vehicle that will enable electrical repairs without any supply shutdown. CM said similar vehicles would soon be deployed across the city.Speaking at an event in her Shalimar Bagh assembly constituency, Gupta said the Rs 1.5-crore vehicle would ensure that residents faced…
MUMBAI: An intense overnight spell of rain lashed parts of Mumbai suburbs between Saturday night and Sunday morning, with the Santacruz IMD observatory recording 87 mm of rainfall in the 24-hour period ending at 8.30 am on September 14. Of this, 61 mm fell in just three hours between 11.30 pm and 2.30 am (September…
New Delhi: Union health minister JP Nadda on Saturday launched an AI-based navigation mobile app, Disha, for AIIMS to help patients and visitors find their way around the hospital with ease. Based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons and AI routing algorithms, these digital maps allow real-time turn-by-turn navigation, authorities said. From navigating OPD rooms…
Mumbai: Opposition is growing against BMC’s proposed move to demolish Goregaon’s Veer Savarkar flyover to make way for a double-decker bridge connecting the Malad-Mindspace stretch of Mumbai Coastal Road-North to Dindoshi.BJP MLA from Goregaon Vidya Thakur, along with party workers, met civic officials over the weekend and demanded that alternatives be explored to avoid dismantling…
New Delhi: Starting Sept 17, Delhi govt will roll out a new welfare scheme or project for 15 days straight as “gifts” to the residents of the capital to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday, chief minister Rekha Gupta said on Saturday. She made the announcement during a meeting convened at the Delhi secretariat to…
PUNE: Friendship on online gaming platforms is not always fair. A 17-year-old Baner girl learned it the hard way miles away from home.She took the rigour of travelling over 2,100km from Pune to Nagrakata in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal to be with her online friend without informing her family members. Her “friend”, in return,…
