NEW DELHI: As many as forty-four passengers had a narrow escape after a private luxury bus caught fire on the Mumbai-Goa highway near Kashedi tunnel in Maharashtra’s Raigad district around 2am on Sunday, police said. The bus was travelling from Mumbai to Malvan in Sindhudurg when one of its tyres burst near Poladpur, triggering a…
In Delhi’s Bawana area, Niyaz lost his life in a stabbing incident. The incident occurred after a fight erupted between two groups in JJ Colony. Two others, Tosin and Nihal, sustained injuries and are receiving treatment. NEW DELHI: A 29-year-old man was stabbed to death and two others were injured after a fight broke out…
Pune: Pasha Patel, the chairman of the state commission for agricultural costs and prices, on Saturday stoked a controversy saying that the govt cannot give compensation to farmers for crop loss because of erratic weather and they should get accustomed to it.“Nobody has the capacity to give compensation for the entire crop loss incurred by…
Mumbai: “Medicine has lost its human touch,” lamented Dr Farokh Udwadia while delivering the chief guest’s address at a function to commemorate the second anniversary of another stalwart, Dr Sultan Pradhan’s hospital, Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Head & Neck Cancer Institute of India (HNCI) at Mazagon, on Saturday afternoon.The audience listened in pin-drop silence to the…
New Delhi: Delhi Police arrested a man in connection with a digital arrest fraud case targeting a 76-year-old retired engineer in northwest Delhi’s Keshavpuram area. Cops are investigating possible international links and examining foreign connections related to the case.The accused was identified as Sonu Ansari, 26, a resident of Basantpur Part-2 in Faridabad.According to the…
Pune: The state public works department on Saturday said about 70% of the repair work on the Mumbai-Goa highway had been completed despite the heavy rain hurdle, as 10 lakh commuters are expected to head to Konkan before Ganeshotsav. “We could have completed 90% of the work but heavy rain slowed the progress. Since a…
Mumbai: A Nepali national working as a security guard at a highrise has been arrested by Bangur Nagar Police for a cybercrime where a loan was fraudulently taken online against a woman’s fixed deposits and the money withdrawn. Police said the accused splurged most of the Rs 2.79 lakh that he withdrew in playing rummy….
New Delhi: Delhi University‘s Laxmibai College is likely to discontinue its much-debated Laxmibai Regiments — NCC units named after goddesses Durga, Kali and Chandi — that were introduced last year to respond to harassment complaints by students around the campus of the girls’ college.While the initiative was projected as a way of empowering young women,…
Pune: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday said the opposition is more interested in raking up non-issues than focusing on real ones, in reaction to Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut‘s criticism of Central govt over the India-Pakistan cricket match in the upcoming Asia Cup.“Today there are some important issues like heavy…
Even as the recent deluge turned most of MMR into a wetland, a community-led campaign in Vasai (once home to actual wetlands) has been steadily working to revive a centuries-old system of water bodies in a bid to improve the region’s ecological health, restore its biodiversity and, most crucially, mitigate floods. These freshwater ponds, or…
