Pune: A 65-year-old woman, hailing from a business family, in Bibvewadi lost Rs40.2 lakh between Feb and May after falling for a high returns bait of cybercrooks.Pune cybercrime police registered a case on Saturday after verification of her complaint application, which was filed soon after the incident. The case was transferred to Bibvewadi police station.An…
Mumbai: A local nature lover and Save Powai Lake activist recently spotted and photographed a crocodile at the lakeside, behind hostel 17 of the IIT-Bombay campus. The green activists have once again urged the civic body to fully clean Powai Lake to safeguard the biodiversity at this water body. Photographer Ramesh Kamble, with his Instagram…
New Delhi: Lieutenant governor VK Saxena, through a gazette notification, granted an exemption under the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act (DPTA), 1994, to facilitate the construction of residential accommodation at Kasturba Nagar Phase-II over an area of 8.90 hectares. This could lead to the felling or transplantation of 856 trees.While a tree officer, under the…
Pune: Select railway stations under the Pune division will soon have “panic buttons” for passengers to alert the authorities, including the Railway Protection Force (RPF), in case of emergencies.The system has been launched in some railway stations under the Mumbai division. Priyanka Sharma, the divisional security commissioner of the Pune RPF, told TOI that the…
Mumbai: A pharmacist from Sion East fell victim to a meticulously planned fraud scheme, losing medicines worth Rs 5.66 lakh to a man posing as a government hospital doctor.The complainant, 40-year-old Nilesh Shivprasad Singh, owner of Kalyan Pharma in Sion, approached Sion police after realising that he had been cheated over three separate transactions between…
New Delhi: Work on the construction of a high-security prison in Narela, whose design is inspired by the Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is expected to start soon. An expenditure finance committee meeting has revised the project estimate to Rs 148.6 crore. Officials said that the first tender did not receive any…
Pune: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said Maharashtra has always been at the forefront of women’s reforms, and a lot of effort has gone into introducing various welfare schemes in the state.Pawar was speaking during the award ceremony of Yashaswini Awards instituted by Yashwantrao Chavan Centre in the city on Sunday. He presented…
Leather Line Tanneries was engaged in the manufacture of buffalo leather. It had mortgaged its assets to Bank of India for availing credit facilities. It had also obtained five policies from Oriental Insurance to cover various losses to the extent of about Rs 48 crore. During the tenure of the policies, a fire broke out…
Ambassador of Luxembourg Peggy Frantzen with chief guest Tanmaya Lal, Secretary (West), MEA A gathering of diplomats and friends of the Embassy of Luxembourg came together at The Imperial, New Delhi, to celebrate the National Day of Luxembourg. The evening was filled with stimulating conversations and camaraderie over fine food and drinks. Celebrated to mark…
Pune: The office of settlement commissioner and director of land records, Maharashtra, has decided to digitise property records for more than 13,300 holdings spread across 785 hectares in Kharadi, officials told TOI on Monday. The property cards are expected to be uploaded on the Mahabhumi portal by the end of Aug or early Sept.The project,…
