MUMBAI: At least 13 people have been killed after a residential building collapsed in Virar East, on the outskirts of Mumbai, late on Tuesday night.Officials said one section of Ramabai Apartment came crashing down during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, trapping several residents. The collapse occurred as a birthday party was under way…
New Delhi: A committee formed by industries minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa to investigate alleged irregularities in the operation of Poorva Sanskritik Kendra (PSK) in east Delhi has found operational and financial misconduct, and recommended imposing penalties on its private operator.The committee has also suggested regular surprise checks at the cultural centre by a special govt…
Pune: Municipal commissioner Naval Kishore Ram has decided to break the pattern and provide accommodation to its transgender security staffers who work on contract even though the facility was available only for permanent employees till now.Ram told TOI that Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) would provide housing for its transgender staff members.Vaidehi Warhade thought her steady…
New Delhi: Crumbling walls, leaking roofs and locked toilets greeted officials who inspected the family shelter at Motia Khan recently, exposing the grim reality of how hundreds of homeless families stay in the city.The inspection, led by Dr Indu Prakash Singh, member of the State-Level Shelter Monitoring Committee (SLSMC), was carried out in the presence…
Pune: Maharashtra state cooperation minister Babasaheb Patil on Wednesday said the draft Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Rules, pending for the past four months, would be cleared soon after consultations with stakeholders.The draft rules, published earlier this year, are critical for operationalising amendments made in 2019 to the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1961. In their absence, cooperative…
New Delhi: Police have arrested three people from Punjab for allegedly demanding Rs 25 lakh in extortion from a jeweller in east Delhi’s Kalyanpuri area, using the name of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi to intimidate the victim.Police said they received information about an extortion call on Aug 12 at Kalyanpuri police station. The complainant, the director…
Pune: Thunderous and intricate ryhthms of chenda melam, a traditional percussion ensemble of Kerala, will resonate through the replica of Padmanabhaswamy temple created by Shrimant Dagdusheth Halwai Ganapati Trust as a part of its 133rd year of Ganesh festival.Considered the heartbeat of temple festivals in Kerala, the chenda melam, which consists of dozens of chenda…
New Delhi: National Green Tribunal (NGT) asked IIT Delhi, to examine the effectiveness of UV technology in sewage treatment and directed the DPCC to take punitive action against 14 STPs, which, as per a report, failed to meet the standards.The tribunal took suo motu cognisance of a TOI report, ‘Why 75% of Delhi’s STPs aren’t…
Pune: Sarvodaya Cooperative Housing Society in Mundhwa has allegedly been wrongly included as a slum proposed for rehabilitation in the development plan (DP) of 2017, said a group of residents who have raised objection to the matter which crushes their status and threatens their dwellings.The residents claimed their housing society land was shown as part…
New Delhi: Delhi govt’s ongoing campaign, ‘Delhi’s Freedom from Garbage,’ has been extended until Oct 2.The decision was made during a high-level review meeting on solid waste management, chaired by chief minister, Rekha Gupta.The meeting was attended by mayor Sardar Raja Iqbal Singh, urban development minister Ashish Sood and MCD commissioner Ashwani Kumar. The chief…
