Pune: An online booking system, which went live last week, has helped the state forest department restrict the number of tourists turning up at Kundalika valley and for the Andharban jungle trek, two of Mulshi’s most popular weekend getaways.The website, officials said, kept the number of people at 1,000 at the valley and 700 for…
Mumbai: Not a single housing society in Mumbai on govt land has opted for self-redevelopment, information obtained under the Right to Information Act has revealed.There are 3,000 cooperative housing societies in Mumbai city and suburbs on land leased either by the govt or collector’s land, called occupancy class II. Salil Rameshchandra, president of the Federation…
New Delhi: A 13-year-old girl from north-west Delhi’s Bharat Nagar, who left home following a dispute with her father, was rescued nearly a month later after being trafficked and forcibly married off in Uttar Pradesh. She boarded a train that took her to Meerut, where two men lured her with false promises and took her…
Pune: The Loni Kalbhor police have registered a case against a civic road contractor on the charge of endangering human life or personal safety of others after a 26-year-old fractured his chin in a fall near Kawadipet toll plaza on Pune-Solapur highway around midnight of Aug 15.The scooterist was injured after his vehicle hit an…
The commission set up under the Commission of Inquiry Act to conduct a judicial inquiry into Pune’s Ruby Hall Clinic kidney scam has so far been given five extensions. As per the revised schedule, the state govt has asked the commission led by Justice Saneep Shinde to wind up the proceedings before Dec 31, 2025….
New Delhi: A Delhi court has discharged a man and six of his family members in a case filed by his wife, who had accused them of dowry harassment, cruelty, and sexual offences. The court held that the allegations were false, vague, exaggerated, and unsupported by any credible evidence, and that the complainant had approached…
Pune: The Sant Tukaramnagar police on Friday arrested two women on the charge of stealing clothes and dry fruits collectively worth Rs 8,000 from a departmental store. The women had hidden the material inside their burka. Employees noticed them and handed them over to the police. Source link
Mumbai: India, said Fields medallist Manjul Bhargava, must fall in love with mathematics again. Not as a “drudgery of formulas” but as an act of “exploration.”Bhargava, Canadian by nationality but of Indian origin, believes classrooms need an overhaul—”experimental, playful,” he said, with teachers “trained” to spark curiosity. Speaking to TOI on the sidelines of the…
New Delhi: A 72-year-old woman battling breathlessness, chest pain and severe fatigue — 14 years after undergoing major heart surgery — was given a new lease on life through a rare and risky intervention performed at Apollo Hospitals. Back then, she survived acute aortic dissection with a complex surgery that replaced her damaged aortic valve…
Pune: The city police integrated 450 CCTV cameras of the Pune Smart City into their control room last week. The move is expected to enhance surveillance and improve road safety across the city. Police personnel at the newly established control room in Shivajinagar can now monitor live feeds and record footage from these cameras, enabling…
