New Delhi: Putting an end to a fight that took place “for the love of dogs”, Delhi High Court has quashed cross-FIRs lodged by two neighbours after a scuffle over the handling of their pet dogs. HC, however, made the relief conditional — that the quarrelling neighbours pay Rs 10,000 costs each at a canine…
Pune: Heavy downpour in the last few days across the state has exposed the deteriorating state of MSRTC buses, with passengers reporting leakages inside the cabin and many breaking down mid-journey.Vikram Mali, who was travelling from Ghosatwadi to Patan in Satara district earlier this week, was aghast at the condition of the Lal Pari bus….
Mumbai: Bhiwandi resident Nafisa (name changed), a mother of three, is still shaken that the common cold she presumed her youngest, 75-day-old son had, turned out to be such a serious chest infection that he needed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The shortage of oxygen due to the infection, which was later diagnosed as bacterial pneumonia, caused…
NEW DELHI: The recent assault on Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta during her weekly Jan Sunvai has once again spotlighted serious security concerns. From shoes and chilli powder to slaps and liquid attacks, a series of incidents over the years—including those targeting Rekha Gupta and her predecessor Arvind Kejriwal—reveal a troubling pattern of breaches and…
Pune: Police on Wednesday arrested a contractor hired by the BSNL on the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in connection with the Aug 15 deaths of three workers due to alleged suffocation while laying an optical fibre point in a cable duct at Nigdi Pradhikaran.The FIR registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita…
Thane: Police arrested two people and registered an FIR against three others in connection with a large-scale land fraud in Navghar in Mira-Bhayander, where a farmer and the govt were allegedly cheated through forged property documents in 2011.The complaint was filed by Balwant Patil (58), a farmer from Navghar gaon, who alleged that his family’s…
New Delhi: An alleged confrontation at Acharya Shree Bhikshu Hospital in west Delhi’s Moti Nagar on Thursday escalated into a political and medical storm after doctors claimed that BJP MLA Harish Khurana assaulted an intern inside the casualty ward. The resident doctors’ association (RDA) at the Delhi govt hospital threatened to withdraw services if a…
Pune: Marathi Rangabhoomi, Pune, and Gandharva Bhushan Jayram Shiledar Sangeet Natya Seva Trust started their year-long programmes to mark the birth centenary year of Jaymala Shiledar on Thursday evening with the release of a video, “Swar Jaymala”, at Jyotsna Bhole Sabhagruha.Shiledar, a renowned Hindustani classical singer and theatre actor, appeared in more than 4,500 shows….
Bhiwandi: The family members of BJP functionary Praful Tangadi and his cousin Tejas, who were killed by a group of masked me on Aug 11, have demanded that police investigate the role of NCP (SP) Bhiwandi MP Suresh Mhatre, popularly known as Balya Mama, and his son Sumit in the double murder case. The family…
New Delhi: A group of individuals, among them a woman, posed as officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation to rob a businessman’s friend and employee of Rs 2.3 crore in east Delhi’s Vivek Vihar on Wednesday. They also abducted the two men and abandoned them at separate locations. Police have arrested two suspects and…
