Mumbai: Dadar Police last week booked more than 100 persons for allegedly violating prohibitory orders and attempting to damage a bamboo and tarpaulin cover placed over Kabutarkhana at Bhavani Shankar Road, Dadar (West).Police have invoked sections related to unlawful assembly, violation of prohibitory orders, and causing damage to public property. Based on video clips and…
New Delhi: Delhi University on Tuesday announced the schedule for the upgradation round, Round II of CW, ECA, sports and ward quota admissions, and spot admission round for undergraduate programmes under CSAS (UG) 2025–26.The university said upgraded allocations will be declared at 5 pm on Friday, Aug 22. Candidates must “accept” the allotted seat by…
Pune/Nashik: The state agriculture department’s preliminary damage assessment showed that kharif crops on over 5.5 lakh hectare in 17 districts of Maharashtra, mostly in the Marathwada and Vidarbha regions, suffered rain damage. Soyabean and cotton crops were worst affected.On Tuesday, the issue was discussed in Mumbai during the cabinet meeting, following which chief minister Devendra…
Navi Mumbai: A group of 15 tourists from Tamil Nadu who had gone to Zenith water fall at Khopoli in Raigad for monsoon revellery were trapped after the river stream swelled due to heavy downpour on Tuesday afternoon. The Khopoli police in coordination with members of NGO rescue team and fire brigade rescued all the…
New Delhi: Suspecting his wife of infidelity, a man killed her and, with the help of three friends, buried her body in a graveyard in south Delhi’s Mehrauli. The case was solved after a missing person complaint filed by the woman’s friend led to the arrest of the husband and two accomplices.The three arrested were…
Mumbai: The six pumping stations and portable dewatering pumps were in overdrive over the past four days, draining record volumes of rainwater as heavy showers lashed the city.According to BMC data, between Aug 16 morning and Aug 19 noon, the six pumping stations across the city collectively extracted 16,451 million litres or 1,645 crore litres…
New Delhi: The newly launched CM Shri Schools have received over 50,000 applications within days of opening admissions.“The remarkable interest reflects the growing demand for high-quality education in Delhi and underscores the public’s confidence in the new initiative,” said Education minister Ashish Sood.Admissions began on Aug 15, and the surge in applications was described as…
Thane: Quick thinking and timely intervention by two local youths saved the lives of two people trapped inside a near-submerged car at the waterlogged Nilje-Ghesar railway underpass in Thane district on Tuesday. A video of the two bravehearts swimming into the flooded underpass and rescuing the SUV driver and passenger has gone viral.Officials said the…
New Delhi: The coordination committee of all district bar associations on Tuesday gave the govt 48 hours to withdraw an order issued by lieutenant governor VK Saxena. The order permits Delhi Police to present evidence via video conference from police stations in court cases.A release signed by Tarun Rana, additional secretary general of the committee,…
Pune: Chairman of the state legislative council, Ram Shinde, has accused NCP chief Ajit Pawar of ‘torturing’ him by repeatedly making claims that the deputy chief minister helped his nephew win the seat against him.Shinde faced defeat at the hands of NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar in the 2024 assembly polls in the Karjat-Jamkhed constituency.Although…
