New Delhi: Three men were arrested for allegedly stabbing a 30-year-old man to death and injuring another in northwest Delhi’s Aman Vihar on Thursday. Police said the attack was linked to a personal enmity. A PCR call was received around 7 pm on June 26. By the time police arrived, the victims had been taken…
Navi Mumbai: A day after a newborn was found abandoned on a street outside an oprhanage in Panvel, the biological parents were traced on Sunday. The police identified the child’s father as a 23-year-old Bhiwandi resident, Aman Kondkar, an engineer who is currently unemployed. He told the police that he was in a relationship with…
Pune: The Shiv Sena (UBT) Pune unit on Sunday staged an agitation against state govt’s June GR on implementing the three-language policy, claiming that it is trying to impose the Hindi language on students in the state. According to the agitators, the compulsion “attacks Marathi identity in Maharashtra”.Later in the day, govt announced that it…
Mumbai: A sessions court refused to grant interim relief from arrest to former CEO of the New India Co-operative Bank Ltd, Abhimanyu Bhoan, in the bank scam case. The city’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) had registered a case of cheating and criminal breach of trust against Percept Ltd founder-director Harinder Pal Singh, New India Co-operative…
Mumbai: The monopoly of state power utility MSEDCL in Mulund-Bhandup, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Kalyan, Vasai, and other parts of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) faces potential competition. Besides Tata Power’s recent parallel distribution licence application, both Adani Electricity Navi Mumbai Ltd (AENML) and Torrent Power await a public hearing at MERC on July 22 for…
New Delhi: Students aspiring to secure admission to Delhi University (DU) under the extra-curricular activities (ECA) category for the 2025-26 academic session will not have to wait much longer, as the process has begun with the formation of a dedicated committee.The university announced the constitution of an 18-member committee to oversee and monitor admissions under…
Mumbai: Sixty-three-year-old former SIMI activist Saqib Nachan, who was arrested by NIA in the ISIS Maharashtra module case, died on Saturday morning while receiving treatment at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi. He was under treatment for six days following a brain haemorrhage.Nachan, convicted twice earlier in terror cases, was arrested in Dec 2023 for allegedly running…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has apprehended 83 Bangladeshi nationals, including 33 minors, from various localities of east Delhi for staying illegally in the national capital, an official on Sunday said. The action was part of an ongoing special drive launched in November 2024 to identify and take legal action against illegal immigrants, police said. “So…
Pune: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) maintained an orange alert for ghat areas in Pune district for the next few days with a warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall.While Maharashtra’s ghat regions continued to witness heavy rainfall with Shirgaon recording 100mm in 24 hours ending Saturday morning, urban areas across the state experienced scant…
Sami Kishore Masya’s tin-roofed tenement is so dark in the sunny afternoon that a volunteer has to turn on a mobile torch to converse with her. Sami speaks haltingly in Marathi. “My husband was our main breadwinner. Survival is hard as there are many to feed (five children, her mother, and herself) and income is…
