Mumbai: Considering that the accused was deprived of her 7-year-old daughter, who is in a children’s home, as she and her husband have been in jail for three years, a sessions court recently granted bail to the 38-year-old homemaker accused of kidnapping a child in 2013.The kidnapped girl was rescued and reunited with her parents…
New Delhi: Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday called upon students of IIT-Delhi to lead India’s innovation journey towards ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat‘, echoing PM Narendra Modi’s Independence Day emphasis on self-reliance.Interacting with undergraduate and postgraduate students and doctoral researchers at the institute, Pradhan said the coming decades offer a “unique opportunity” to drive national priorities and…
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 destinations.The website, officials said, kept the number of people at 1,000 at the valley and 700 for…
Mumbai: A day after Rohan Valvi, 14, from Adarsh Nagar in the Marol area died during Dahi Handi celebrations, local residents recounted the tragic sequence of events that unfolded. The deceased, the middle child in a family of three, was the son of a carpenter.Mahadev, a local from the area, said Valvi reached the Govinda…
New Delhi: A 24-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband in northeast Delhi’s Seelampur on Sunday. He then went to the police station and confessed to the crime, claiming he suspected his wife of having an extramarital affair.The deceased resided in a jhuggi in the area with her husband and two children.According…
Pune: The Yerawada police acted on a tip-off and raided a pub named Ballr at Kalyaninagar around 1.10am on Friday for selling liquor despite the fact that the govt has declared Aug 15 as a dry day.Police also registered a case against the manager (45). According to the police, there were 300 to 500 people…
Mumbai: A metropolitan magistrate’s court has rejected the police closure report giving a clean chit to the Anchor Group in a cheating and forgery case linked to a redevelopment project. The complaint was lodged by Shreenathji Group, partners with Anchor Group in projects since 2010. They fell out in 2017 when Shreenathji faced financial troubles….
New Delhi: Delhi Police has cracked the connected murders of two brothers-in-law in northeast Delhi’s Khajuri Khas and Dayalpur, arresting four men allegedly involved in the killings.The investigation began on Aug 11, when police received information about a man’s body found in C-Block, Khajuri Khas. The deceased was identified as Raji Ahmed, 33, a resident…
PUNE: The state election commission is gearing up for the upcoming elections to local government bodies and, against that backdrop, electronic voting machines (EVMs) are undergoing first-level checks at the Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) in Hyderabad and the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) in Pune.According to officials involved in the process, these checks involve…
Mumbai: The city’s wealthiest Ganesh mandal, GSB Seva Mandal, King’s Circle, has procured record insurance worth Rs 474.46 crore this season. The previous year’s policy was Rs 400 crore. The increase is owing to the increased valuation of its gold and silver items, and the induction of more volunteers and priests.The mandal does not reveal…
