Pune: Wednesday’s sexual assault on a woman in Kondhwa by a man posing as a delivery agent has prompted society representatives in the city to discuss security tightening measures, including sending self-security awareness messages to residents. The man, posing as a courier delivery agent, entered the 22-year-old data scientist’s 11th floor rented flat in a…
An underground pedestrian passage connecting the BKC bullet train station with the BKC Metro 3 station is being planned. The underground walkway will make it easier for commuters to switch between the bullet train and metro quickly and comfortably. 7m x 7m Size of knockout wall at the BKC station, which can be demolished when…
NEW DELHI: A woman and her 14-year-old son were murdered at their south Delhi home on Wednesday evening, allegedly by a man who had taken a Rs 45,000 advance from her and stopped returning calls after falling out over repayment, police said. The suspect, identified as Mukesh, was arrested hours later by police in Uttar…
PUNE: A group of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers staged a protest outside a Pune resident’s home on Thursday, accusing him of posting a derogatory comment on Facebook about party chief Raj Thackeray.The incident took place in the Kothrud area of the city and drew police intervention after tensions escalated.No official complaint had been registered…
VASAI: Constables Rajesh Mahajan and Shyam Shinde have been suspended by the MBVV commissionerate after they were arrested by the Achole cops on Wednesday on the charges of abetment of suicide and criminal intimidation. They have been accused to driving a developer to suicide after threatening him to give-up his building project which was financed…
NEW DELHI: In a horrific double murder, a 24-year-old worker in a garment shop entered the Lajpat Nagar residence of his employer and slit the throats of his wife and teenage son on Wednesday evening. The accused, Mukesh Paswan, managed to flee the city after the crime but was arrested from a train in UP.Mukesh,…
Pune: Major reservoirs in Maharashtra surpassed the halfway storage mark on Thursday, their highest July first week level in at least a decade, following 500mm-1,000mm rainfall in major dam catchments since the monsoon onset in the state in May.According to a senior official from the water resources department, the collective water storage in Maharashtra’s major…
MUMBAI: Even as the Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS were expecting NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar for their joint “victory rally” on Saturday, Pawar has said that he will not participate in the rally due to his previously scheduled programmes. State NCP (SP) president Jayant Patil will be present instead. State Congress chief Harshawardhan Sakpal…
Madrasi Camp gave Tamil migrants a chance to build their lives, but a court order left hundreds displaced Veerasamy had decided to abandon the comfortable familiarity of home. His family worked on farms and got by – just. He thought he could do better. So, he got married and left his village at Tirunelveli in…
Pune: A special magisterial court on Thursday rejected the plea filed by the great-grandnephew of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Satyaki, seeking a direction to the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, to supply a copy of the book he cited during his alleged defamatory speech in London in 2023 against the Hindutva ideologue.Satyaki is…
