Pune: Police are searching for a 39-year-old tour operator from Vadodara (Gujarat) for defrauding at least 10 residents of Nigdi of Rs1 crore. The suspect is accused of taking 11 vehicles from the victims in Dec last year under the guise of renting them out, only to disappear with the cars to Gujarat. The fraud…
Mumbai: Maharashtra will soon frame rules to make testing of thalassaemia mandatory for people before marriage as part of a broader initiative to eradicate the disease, minister Meghana Bordikar said in the assembly on Thursday.Responding to a question raised by MLA Vikas Thakre during the Question Hour, the minister of state for public health said…
New Delhi: Four minors were apprehended for allegedly stabbing a man to death and decamping with his phone and belongings in northwest Delhi’s Bawana area. Police said the same group is also believed to be involved in a second robbery that occurred days later.According to police, on June 26, a PCR call was received at…
Mumbai: BMC has invited expressions of interest (EOI) from reputed public companies, charitable trusts or societies for the development and long-term maintenance of a textile museum at the site of the India United Mill No. 2 & 3 in Byculla (East).The proposed museum is to be established on a 44,000 sq m plot — C.S….
New Delhi: Five members of a gang were arrested from central Delhi’s Karol Bagh for allegedly cheating a man of Rs 57 lakh under the pretext of a USDT cryptocurrency deal. Police have also recovered the entire cash. The accused lured the man to an office posing as crypto traders, took the cash and vanished…
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…
