NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old woman was allegedly raped by an unidentified man who entered her home in Pune on Wednesday evening by posing as a courier delivery executive, news agency PTI reported. The incident took place at around 7.30pm in a housing society in the Kondhwa area of the city. The woman was reportedly alone…
Mumbai/Navi Mumbai: While the strike call from a section of transporters on Wednesday turned out to be a ‘damp squib’ in Mumbai region, additional chief secretary (home) Iqbal Singh Chahal announced that he has directed the police to stop imposing e-challans from mobile phones on school buses when they pick and drop students or when…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Wednesday criticised municipal bodies for showing “complete apathy and insensitivity” in maintaining public toilets in the capital.“We are staking claim to host the Olympics, and we don’t even have clean public toilets in the city,” a bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Tushar Rao Gedela remarked, terming the…
Pune: For a woman in her 50s, life after divorce became an unbearable struggle. Constant mood swings left her irritable and anxious.It was only after she sought professional help that the root of her turmoil could be detected – a mental health condition called bipolar disorder that causes extreme changes in mood, energy, and activity…
Mumbai: State govt on Wednesday withdrew an amendment proposing a 50-time hike in penalty for illegal felling of trees and not recognising the cutting of branches as an offence.Forest minister Ganesh Naik moved the motion to withdraw the bill to amend the Maharashtra Felling of Trees (Regulation) Act of 1964, which proposed to increase the…
New Delhi: It looked like a murder had just occurred—crime scene tape, a lifeless body, and police officers investigating the scene. But this wasn’t a real crime. The location was Bharat Mandapam, which transformed into a full-fledged crime and justice ‘theatre’ on Wednesday, as the Delhi Police staged a live demonstration to showcase how the…
Pune: Principal secretary to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Ashwini Bhide, on Wednesday directed the PMRDA, MIDC and other agencies concerned to immediately carry out a detailed hydraulic study and assess the feasibility of a storm water drainage network in the Hinjewadi area, following repeated complaints of urban flooding and civic breakdown.The directives came during a…
Mumbai: In a relief for an Army veteran (80) who was denied a pension for two years for not submitting a life certificate, the Bombay High Court directed that the arrears should be paid to him with interest.“Insistence on a life certificate for the period from Jan 2021 to Jan 2023, in the face of…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested three cyber fraudsters from Jamtara, Jharkhand, for duping a man of Rs 10 lakh under the guise of updating his credit card’s KYC details.The accused have been identified as Aftab Ansari (27), Mujaffar Jilani (27) and Mohammad Iqbal Raza (24), all residents of Jamtara.According to police, the victim, a…
Pune: Urban development minister of state Madhuri Misal on Wednesday said state govt could cancel the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC)’s draft development plan (DP) if it’s deemed beyond rectification. She was responding to concerns raised by MLCs from both the ruling alliance and opposition during the assembly session, who demanded the draft’s scrapping.The MLCs…
