Pune: Chandannagar police on Wednesday detained three men from Rajegaon in Beed district and rescued a 30-year-old sugarcane farm worker.Two of the three men allegedly abducted the farm worker around 8am on June 30. When the worker did not return home late that night, his wife (25) contacted all her relatives to enquire about her…
Mumbai: Congress MLA Nana Patole on Thursday alleged irregularities in the BMC’s project for legacy waste remediation at the Deonar dumping ground, with the estimated contract valued at over Rs 2,368 crore. Patole said that two companies were kept out of the tendering process to favour a specific bidder. He said that while hundreds of…
New Delhi: A court on Wednesday ordered the filing of a complaint against a woman for registering a false rape case against a man. The court observed that she entrapped the man in a pre-planned manner on a matrimonial website to extort him.While acquitting him, the court of additional sessions judge Anuj Agrawal said an…
Pune: The city police on Wednesday claimed to have cracked the armed robbery of gold ornaments worth Rs4.5 lakh on Tuesday afternoon from a jewellery store in Vadgaon Budruk following the arrest of three suspects, including the mastermind. The entire booty and a toy gun used to threaten the victim — the store owner’s wife…
Thane: The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) on Wednesday announced the launch of its experimental organic farming project on a 1.5-acre civic-owned plot in Patlipada, along the densely populated Ghodbunder Road. Believed to be the first initiative of its kind by any urban local body in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region—and possibly the state—the project is the…
New Delhi: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued a notice to the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) after a plea alleged that private builders had illegally installed borewells and were extracting groundwater without permission. The petitioner, Arun Kumar Tomar, claimed he filed a complaint with the DJB chairman on Jan 20, but no action followed.Tomar alleged…
Pune: A 17-year-old boy’s right palm severed from his wrist in a brutal machete attack by two minors (both 17 years old) over an old enmity in a slum area near Shivajinagar railway station around 3pm on Wednesday.Senior inspector Mahesh Bolkotgi of the Shivajinagar police said, “Our teams admitted the victim to Sassoon General Hospital….
Mumbai: Circular Train Operations (CTO), a bold proposal to run long-distance trains in a circular loop without entering choked railway termini in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, and Danapur in Bihar to ease pressure on them, has been gathering dust since a year.Conceived by former Mumbai divisional railway manager Rajnish Kumar…
New Delhi: A 19-year-old woman is fighting for life after consuming acid at her residence in southwest Delhi’s Vasant Kunj. Her family alleged that she was sexually exploited for a few years by a 25-year-old man under the pretext of a marriage. He has been arrested.On June 18, police were informed by a hospital about…
Pune: Water supply resumed in the Pashan and Bavdhan areas on Wednesday, but residents complained of frequent low pressure and erratic supply, demanding administrative action to boost pressure for consistent relief.The water supply was disrupted in many parts of Pashan, Bavdhan and Baner over the last two days after a leakage developed in a pipeline…
