Mumbai: The Railway Land Development Authority (RLDA) has decided to defer the redevelopment of Thane and Kalyan railway stations until at least half the work on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) is completed — a milestone likely to be reached only next year. At present, only about 15% progress has been made on the Rs…
New Delhi: Some volunteers met mayor Raja Iqbal Singh on Wednesday and offered their services at MCD’s Animal Birth Control (ABC) centres. They offered to help with food, medicines, identification of aggressive dogs and transporting the canines to ABC centres humanely. “Thirty dog lovers visited me and assured they would share contact details of another…
Kolhapur: Several environmentalists have raised concerns over the public works department’s (PWD) decision to plant nearly 60,000 trees alongside the highways of Kolhapur and Sangli districts. The plan includes planting non-native species like gulmohar along with a native species of kadamb tree. Environmentalists objected to the monotonous method and demanded that a mix of native…
Mumbai: The Dadar Kabutarkhana controversy escalated on Wednesday as several hundred Marathi Ekikaran Samiti members were detained while protesting against the Jain community’s demand to allow pigeon feeding at the spot. The Samiti members said they were angered by the remarks of Jain monk Nileshchandra Vijay, who threatened an indefinite hunger strike and said he…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on a plea alleging that sanitary pad vending machines at metro stations across the capital are either faulty or non-functional, causing inconvenience to women commuters.Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Nikhil Goyal, a bench of chief justice…
Pune: A gym trainer and her colleague bludgeoned a 25-year-old man to death inside their protein products shop at Charholi Phata on Wednesday, after he harassed the former at the establishment on Tuesday.“After bludgeoning the man, Gopinath alias Lalla Varpe, the woman (22) and her colleague (25) surrendered at the Dighi police station,” said Bapu…
Mumbai: The classic dabbawallah dressed in white kurta pyjama and Gandhi cap embodies a tradition that is older than Ganeshotsav. The tiffin service began in 1890 while public Ganesh celebrations started in 1893.The fire may be spent but the embers still glow. The dabbawallah community is still proud of the profession which transports home-cooked meals…
New Delhi: Traffic in central Delhi will be affected on Thursday as the traffic police has issued an advisory due to the Janmashtami and Tazia processions.According to police, the traffic movement in Paharganj is likely to be affected from 1.30pm in view of the shobha yatra for Janmashtami and the Tazia procession.The Janmashtami procession will…
Pune: The Chandannagar police on Wednesday arrested two men on the charge of brutally assaulting a 35-year-old unemployed man to death after the latter teased a woman around 8.30pm on Tuesday. The police identified the deceased as Sainath alias Kalibai Janrao from Ambedkar slums in Chandannagar. Senior inspector Seema Dhakane said, “We arrested Aditya Walhekar…
Mumbai: A day after 75-year-old, Neeta Nitin Shah, a south Mumbai resident, died after being trapped between a Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) electric bus and a wrongly parked car in Malabar Hill, the police are contemplating action against the car owner. Shah came under the rear tyre of the BEST bus when it…
