Nandini Pillai during a dakla workshop in Delhi As social media is buzzing with reels of dance lovers grooving to Gujarati folk mashups, garba workshops across NCR are drawing in enthusiasts to swirl, clap and strike their dandiya sticks in rhythm. With seasoned choreographers leading crash courses and workshops, many are picking up the basic…
Pune: Police in an overnight search operation seized gold and silver jewellery, cash, 16 mobile handsets, and property-related documents, collectively worth over Rs75 lakh, from the houses of arrested gangster Suryakant alias Bandu Andekar and his daughter Vridavani Wadekar. Andekar, his daughter and her two sons were arrested in connection with the revenge murder of…
Mumbai: Amidst the controversy over rats biting critically ill patients in the female ward of the BMC-run Cooper Hospital, several measures were announced on Thursday, including the establishment of a free chemotherapy ward at the Juhu facility.Cooper Hospital, now the fourth medical college operated by BMC, received funding to start the five-bed chemotherapy ward within…
New Delhi: The Delhi environment department has told National Green Tribunal that demarcation of the Yamuna floodplain using billboards will start on Sept 15. Delhi Development Authority will put up the billboards announcing the floodplain area in the vicinity.The tribunal has taken suo-motu cognisance of a TOI report, titled “Why Flooding has Forced DDA’s Master…
Mumbai: Calling his continued presence “a one-sided affair like the David and Goliath war”, multiple murder accused Vijay Palande on Thursday moved sessions court seeking Ujjwal Nikam‘s resignation as special public prosecutor (SPP) in his case while also serving as a Rajya Sabha member.Nikam was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament earlier this year….
New Delhi: An advocate, a resident of east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar, was duped of Rs 2.5 lakh by a man impersonating a customs official. According to the complaint, the advocate received a call from a man posing as a customs official claiming his client—whom he met on social media and was arriving from California—was detained…
Mumbai: The state govt on Thursday signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) entailing an investment of about Rs 1.09 lakh crore in sectors like information technology, food processing, warehousing, data centres, and logistics hubs, paving the way for the creation of 48,000 direct jobs, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said.Investors and the industry sector play a crucial…
New Delhi: The Delhi environment department has told National Green Tribunal (NGT) that demarcation of the Yamuna floodplain using billboards will start on Sept 15. Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will put up the billboards that will announce the floodplain area in the vicinity in order to check encroachments from sprouting there.Delhi govt made the reply…
Mumbai: The cancellation of the proposed National College Metro station on the elevated Dahisar East-Mandale Metro Line 2B corridor has sparked a fresh controversy with former Congress corporator Asif Zakaria alleging that the move was aimed at facilitating the monetisation of a prime railway plot in Bandra West.In a letter to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis,…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested a 33-year-old man for allegedly duping a senior cardiologist of Rs 6.69 lakh by posing as an Army man. According to police, the victim, a south Delhi resident, filed a complaint stating that the accused contacted him, seeking medical consultations for 25 Army personnel at a fee of Rs…
