Navi Mumbai: Kharghar police arrested a 50-year-old man for allegedly sexually assaulting his 11-year-old step-daughter. The crime took place on August 12 at the victim’s residence, but her mother registered an FIR on Thursday after the girl narrated her ordeal. Thereafter, the accused had absconded.A police officer privy to the case informed that, as the…
NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old sewadar was on Friday brutally beaten to death with sticks by a group of men inside the premises of southeast Delhi’s Kalkaji Temple following a dispute over the distribution of chunni prasad. Police have arrested five people so far, including the father of one of the men for harbouring him. The…
Pune: In the academic year 2024-25 in Maharashtra, 12.6% of boys and 10.3% of girls enrolled in standards IX and X dropped out of education, which was over 1% more than in 2023-24. Additionally, nearly 41.6% of schools (covering standards I to X) in the state lacked child-friendly toilets for children with special needs, according…
Mumbai: The whirlwind of the ongoing Maratha reservation morcha that had enveloped South Mumbai Friday abated slightly Saturday, the second day of activist Manoj Jarange-led influx of 30,000 agitators from the state.Even as the villagers settled, bathing and cooking in the streets near their protest site at Azad Maidan, surrounding roads were partially opened for…
New Delhi: As India reels from devastating natural disasters, mental health experts warn of a silent crisis with a recent US study published in JAMA Network Open reporting that disaster displacement can have severe psychological consequences.The study, involving more than 183 million US adults, found that time spent away from home was directly linked to…
Pune: Alert security personnel nabbed two out of four men for chopping and stealing seven sandalwood trees worth Rs 46,000 from the premises of National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in Pashan around 3.20am on Aug 29.The suspects, Babu Lokhande (56) and Suresh Patale (28), both residents of Kedgaon and Khutbav villages in Daund, suffered minor injuries…
Mumbai: In Mumbai, where civic hospitals have long been the last resort not just for the residents of the city but also for the rest of Maharashtra and beyond, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is about to draw a sharp line between those who will receive the benefit of affordable treatment and those who won’t.For…
New Delhi: In the past two-and-a-half years, 1,321 bodies were found on railway tracks in Delhi-NCR, shows Railway Protection Force (RPF) data. As a precautionary measure, RPF has heightened vigilance in five stretches that reported the most fatalities.Between 2023 and 2025, the number of deaths on train tracks saw an uptick. In 2023, authorities discovered…
Pune: The civic administration has received the highest number of memoranda from wards in newly merged areas, within a week of opening the draft of PMC ward boundaries for public feedback and objections ahead of the upcoming civic elections. Not a single objection or suggestion has been received in 11 wards so far.“Of 454 suggestions…
Mumbai: “There’s no point going back now, heavy rainfall has completely destroyed the crops back home,” said Sachin Ingle, one of the protesters at the Maratha quota agitation. Sachin and his brothers Vachist and Sunil Ingle are farmers from Beed, who have spent two days in protest at the CSMT railway station. Sunil said, “Many…
