VASAI: Within a week’s time another lot from the Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi (BVA) joined the BJP on Tuesday at their Mumbai office. While earlier induction on August 5 was a mixed bag with with both BVA and UBT senior leaders joining the BJP, Tuesday saw only BVA leaders joining the BJP, which included a former…
NEW DELHI: More than 10,000 police personnel and 3,000 traffic cops, aided by hi-tech surveillance, including under-vehicle systems, FRS and ANPR cameras, are being deployed in Delhi as the national capital gears up for Independence Day, an official said on Tuesday.With just two days left for Independence Day, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak…
Pune: Children in 22 ashramshalas in Pune circle would undergo mass screening and vaccination for measles following outbreaks in nearby districts like Jalgaon, Dhule and Nandurbar. Even a single confirmed case is considered an outbreak due to measles’ high contagiousness.The Pune circle includes Pune, Solapur and Satara districts. Dr Nagnath Yempalle, civil surgeon and deputy…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said that Ganpati mandals will not pay any penalty for road-digging until the state govt fills up each and every pothole on the Mumbai-Goa highway. Ganpati mandals often dig holes in the ground to affix bamboo poles for mandaps. In a bid to protect newly concretised…
NEW DELHI: A city court on Monday refused anticipatory bail to businessman Vicky Ramancha, prime accused in an alleged $18.8 million international scam involving counterfeit doses of Ozempic, an anti-diabetic drug being used for weight loss. Additional sessions judge Saurabh Partap Singh Laler observed that the scale of the alleged fraud and the serious health…
Pune: All India Congress Committee in-charge of Maharashtra, Ramesh Chennithala, on Tuesday said free and fair elections would not be possible in the country till the time Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah were in the govt.Chennithala was in the city to address the concluding session of the two-day workshop organised…
MUMBAI: Observing that claim of citizenship must be examined strictly under the Citizenship Act, 1955, the Bombay high court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of a man who the police allege is a Bangladeshi national. The Thane resident, since 2013, said he holds an Aadhaar card, PAN card, voter ID and passport. His documents…
NEW DELHI: In a relief to owners who were facing the threat of their overage vehicles being impounded by authorities in Delhi, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that no coercive action be taken against them and agreed to reexamine its 2018 order by which it had banned the plying of more than 15 years…
Pune: Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park in Katraj has been waiting for a curator for years.The park has two sanctioned posts for curators, but they have not been filled for around a decade. According to experts, the post of a curator is important as the person is expected to supervise key personnel, including head animal keepers,…
Mumbai: Dahisar’s Nav Tarun Mitra Mandal has decided to stop participating at dahi handi events two days after an 11-year-old boy died after falling off the sixth tier of a human pyramid during their practice session.“We are in shock after Mahesh Jadhav’s loss. The mandal has decided not to participate in any event in future,”…
