MUMBAI: Nearly 200 residents and activists protested in Cheetah Camp and Mankhurd on Monday, opposing BMC’s plan to privatise two peripheral hospitals and key health services in five others. A total of 20 participants also sat on a hunger strike near Maharashtra Nagar Maternity Home, demanding stronger public health infrastructure.The protest, the second in recent…
NEW DELHI: Actor Kay Kay Menon has clarified that he is not associated with a controversial campaign video recently shared by the Congress party on social media. The clip, which features Menon’s character Himmat Singh from the spy series Special Ops, was edited and used without his consent.“Ruko ruko yaar. Scroll karna bandh karo. Agar…
Pune: A citizens’ group has written to PMC commissioner Naval Kishore Ram to initiate a programme to manage stray dogs more effectively.Sudhir Mehta and Manoj Pochat of Pune Platform for Collaborative Response, in a letter, said that various parts of the city were witnessing a steady increase in stray dog-related incidents.“Pune, as a rapidly growing…
Mumbai: The state govt on Monday announced that school vans with up to 12 seats plus a driver will be permitted to ferry students across the state, according to a state govt press release. This move has been strongly opposed by school bus owners, who have given an ultimatum of 15 days to the govt…
Bollywood actor John Abraham has appealed to the Chief Justice of India, urging a review of the Supreme Court’s order to relocate Delhi’s community dogs. Abraham argues the directive is illegal, impractical, and inhumane, conflicting with existing Animal Birth Control Rules. NEW DELHI: Bollywood actor John Abraham on Tuesday urged Chief Justice of India Justice…
Pune: An 8-foot-long mugger crocodile was rescued recently from a water supply lake in Solapur district’s Akluj by a team from the state forest department and RESQ Charitable Trust.Ashish Thakre, chief conservator of forests, Pune Circle,said, “The crocodile’s safe capture and relocation was requested in light of upcoming construction to expand the lake’s capacity.” A…
Mumbai: A protest has been called after a civic-run school in Colaba shifted all classes for 1,300 English medium students to online mode after the municipal corporation’s school infrastructure cell declared the school building unsafe. This decision affects half of the 2,800 students enrolled across the school’s Marathi, Urdu, Kannada and English medium sections.Parents and…
NEW DEHI: A newly constructed residential complex for parliamentarians offers spacious living, modern amenities and eco-friendly features.The complex, located near the Parliament House, comprises four 25-storey towers named after major rivers — Kosi, Krishna, Godavari and Hooghly — with a total of 184 type-VII flats. Each flat has a carpet area of approximately 5,000 square…
Pune: A 30-year-old Nepalese national was arrested on Sunday on the charge of assaulting a software engineer (27) with a beer bottle late on Saturday night on the premises of a paying guest (PG) accommodation in Hinjewadi.The victim suffered a fracture to his jaw, besides head injuries. The attack was the fallout of the victim’s…
In Malabar Hill, a 75-year-old woman, Neeta Shah, tragically died after coming into contact with the rear tyre of a BEST bus on route 105. The incident occurred near the Sahyadri guest house when the driver heard a sound and discovered the injured pedestrian. MUMBAI: An elderly woman died in Malabar Hill on Tuesday morning…
