New Delhi: The plan became routine. A trusted friend would lock a hostel room from the outside and slip the key into his pocket, making it seem empty. Inside, a student would wait silently — one of the many in hiding across Jawaharlal Nehru University after the Emergency was declared in June 1975.Every day, the…
Pune: The Dehu Road police on Wednesday arrested a labour contractor (49) on the charge of bludgeoning two daily wage workers—a woman (30) and a man (55)—to death with a stone in Talawade.According to the police, the deceased woman had married again after her husband passed away. She had two sons from her first marriage….
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has come out with the tariff orders for state power utility firm MSEDCL which shows a marginal increase in tariff from 0.5 to 3% for low and high-end residential consumers having monthly electricity consumption over 100 units. In the 0-100 consumption category, there is relief as the orders…
New Delhi: The wait for monsoon may be over today. It is likely to arrive in the national capital over the next 24 hours. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for Thursday, expecting light to moderate rain along with thunderstorms and winds. So far, the southwest monsoon has advanced further over parts…
Pune: The National Defence Academy (NDA)’s legacy saw a new chapter with Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla flying aboard the Axiom-4 mission on Wednesday, after the groundbreaking journey of Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma — the first Indian to travel to space on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 1984.NDA Commandant Vice-Admiral Gurucharan Singh described the moment as…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday rejected a petition to declare the state assembly elections null and void due to 76 lakh bogus votes allegedly cast after the closing of polls at 6 pm on Nov 20 last year.“There is nothing on record that at any polling station in the state of Maharashtra, any…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court recently came to the rescue of an Australia-based couple who were not allowed to take their adopted son back to the country for over four years due to the inaction of Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).A single-judge bench of Justice Sachin Datta on May 30 observed that the adoption deed…
Pune: Maharashtra may have recorded its wettest May in decades, but 19 out of 36 districts in the state are grappling with rainfall deficit ranging from moderate to large during the crucial early monsoon period from June 1-25, said India Meteorological Department (IMD) data.The data reveals a stark contrast between pre-monsoon abundance and actual monsoon…
Mumbai: The state govt will formulate a unified policy for installing CCTV cameras in public places by coordinating with all govt agencies through a committee led by a secretary-level officer, announced Minister of State for Home Yogesh Kadam. The policy will specify the types of CCTV systems to be installed, their maintenance and procedures for…
Woman molested in hospital dies: Two days after a woman was allegedly molested at Jag Pravesh Chandra (JPC) hospital in northeast Delhi by another patient, she died under treatment at GTB hospital on Wednesday. According to police, the woman was admitted to JPC hospital on June 21. A complaint was filed at New Usmanpur police…
