Pune: Two men riding on a bike were killed after a truck hit their vehicle in front of a private hospital on Handewadi-Mantarwadi Road around 9.45am on Monday. The Phursungi police identified the deceased as casual workers Santosh Kamble (39) of Karadgaon in Ahilyanagar and Sudarshan Pulawale (38) from Uruli Devachi. The truck driver, Nagesh…
MUMBAI: Tata Consultancy Services’s HQ on Raveline Street in Fort remained closed for the second working day due to the Maratha protests causing traffic congestion and inconvenience for office-goers in south Mumbai. The HQ was closed on Friday and Monday, and will also be shut on Tuesday. TCSers have been instructed to work from home…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Tuesday rejected the bail pleas of Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid, Athar Khan, Abdul Khalid Saifi, Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa Ur Rehman, Mohd Saleem Khan, and Shadab Ahmed in the 2020 Delhi riots larger conspiracy case. “All the appeals are dismissed,” the court said while pronouncing its verdict….
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch on Saturday night raided a gambling den in Charholi, detained 27 men, and seized Rs1.7 lakh in cash from them. As many as 26 cellphones, three cars and five motorcycles, collectively worth more than Rs34 lakh, were also seized. Three men, including the main suspect, managed to flee the…
MUMBAI: A day after the Bombay high court, at a special hearing, gave an opportunity to a Maratha quota activist and his associates to “ensure that the streets are cleaned up, vacated of the occupation by the protesters, which would include all such places which are being occupied” by Tuesday noon, the Acting Chief Justice-led…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has rejected the bail application of Tasleem Ahmed, an accused under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), in connection with the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 north-east Delhi riots. The order was passed by a division bench comprising Justice Subramonium Prasad and Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar. The violence…
City-based philatelist and numismatist Vinayak Awate has a unique collection of stamps – those featuring Lord Ganesha. Inspired by his own name, which among the many names of Ganpati Bappa, Awate has meticulously collected stamps, stamp papers, and even coins from various countries and regions that feature the deity. Besides arranging exhibitions of his collection,…
NEW DELHI: Activist Manoj Jarange, who has been staging a hunger strike to seek quota for Marathas, on Tuesday said he is ready for talks with the government, but asserted he will not leave Mumbai till his demands are met. Jarange, whose agitation at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai entered its fifth day, claimed the…
NEW DELHI: When the Yamuna swelled and overwhelmed large parts of the city in 2023, experts considered the heavy discharge upstream less a factor for the flooding than poor preparedness, encroachments of the floodplain and obstructions in the river’s natural flow. With forecasts of another similar surge in the coming 36-48 hours, the question is…
Pune: The district administration has received letters from nearly 50% of the farmers whose land has been earmarked for the proposed Purandar airport, a week after the process started. District collector Jitendra Dudi said farmers owning around 1,450 acres, out of the airport’s revised area of 3,000 acres (1,285 hectares), had given approval for acquiring…
