MUMBAI: Four underage boys went missing from a madrasa at Malwani on Tuesday. Police said they are believed to have run away from the institution. A missing complaint has been registered by Malwani Police.The boys were aged 12, 13, 15 and 16 years. They were staying at the institution for more than a year for…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has refused to quash an FIR in a case of cruelty towards a minor, pointing out that crimes against children affect society’s conscience at large and cannot be merely treated as private disputes.In June 2023, the child’s mother alleged that her child was physically abused by her neighbours, who beat…
Pune: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has written to Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari for carrying out immediate repairs of Pune-Nashik and Nashik-Mumbai national highways, citing rising accidents, vehicle damage, and commuter distress due to huge potholes and poor road conditions.In his letter, Pawar said that Pune-Nashik highway, which is vital for…
KALYAN: A snake trapped in a plastic net for about 5 hours was rescued by animal lovers in Kalyan on Tuesday.A snake got trapped in a net near Mahesh Patil’s house in Kolivali village of Kalyan. While trying to free itself, it became even more entangled and struggled to get out.Seeing this, Patil contacted animal…
New Delhi: Twelve days into its hunger strike, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) has objected to what it claims is a new undertaking format for PhD students seeking hostel extension, alleging that it requires them to express “gratitude” for being allowed to stay beyond the normal academic period.According to the union, the alleged…
Pune: The Koregaon Park police on July 4 arrested three men and detained a 15-year-old boy on the charge of robbing four pedestrians of their cellphones in the early hours recently.Police recovered four cellphones, a billhook, and a moped without a registration number plate, collectively worth Rs 1.5 lakh, from the suspects identified as Siddharth…
MUMBAI: Over five years, 871 patients involved their district-level Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Arogya Yojana (MJPJAY) officials after local hospitals denied them treatment under the scheme. Of these, 55 cases were reported in Mumbai.The data is part of a response to an RTI filed by activist Jitendra Ghadge, who said, “There are around 6,500 hospitals…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Bihar assembly election, LJP (Ram Vilas) chief and Union minister Chirag Paswan said that he only convinced his father to join NDA before 2014 Lok Sabha polls, who was reluctant and even said that “I will poison myself than go with BJP”.Chirag has also spoken about how he and Ram…
Pune: Eight years after its start, the construction of overhead water tanks for PMC’s 24×7 water supply project is still progressing slowly. Only 25 out of the 82 tanks to be constructed for this project have been commissioned. The civic body claimed to have completed construction of 66 tanks but said 41 are not in…
MUMBAI: Juhu police arrested actor Alia Bhatt‘s former secretary, Vedhika Shetty, from her sister’s house in Bengaluru and brought her to Mumbai on Tuesday. Shetty was sacked from her job after the actress and her mother, Soni Bhatt, discovered that she had committed forgery in invoices over a period of two years after being recruited…
