As the Muslim month of Moharram begins this week (June 26 or 27, depending on the sighting of the new moon), the pulsating Pala Galli aka Hazrat Abbas Street in Dongri prepares to be draped in black. Rooftops, shopfronts, windowsills and sabeels (water fountains) will be adorned with black flags and banners, signalling the sacred…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has asked All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to set up a medical board to provide an expert opinion on the condition of a candidate who cleared the National Defence Academy (NDA) exam but was declared unfit due to a blood disorder.A vacation bench of Justices Pratibha M Singh…
Pune: The Dighi police arrested Siddharth Jadhav (24) of Shirur in Beed district for snatching gold chains from women and men, all warkaris, during the palkhi procession of Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj around 9am on Friday on Pune-Alandi Road.The Dighi police recovered 10 gold chains worth Rs9 lakh from his possession.Police said that a 60-year-old warkari…
MUMBAI: Could this be the typical Mumbaikar instinct to rush to catch a just-missed local train? A 25-year-old man from Kalamboli who darted across the city airport after missing his flight was arrested on Thursday for entering the apron — the area where planes are parked, hoping to board the flight he had just missed.Security…
New Delhi: Two men, including an advocate, were arrested for allegedly running a racket involving bogus GST firms and issuing fake bills to facilitate fraudulent GST settlements.According to police, the scam came to light when a resident of Sagarpur filed a complaint at the South West Delhi’s cyber police station. “The complainant alleged that while…
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said he had directed the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation to drop the proposed reservation for a slaughterhouse in Moshi, close to Alandi, in the draft of the revised development plan.“Under no circumstance will a slaughterhouse be allowed in (near) Alandi. I personally instructed the municipal corporation to cancel…
Promptly responding to the alert received at 12:41 pm, Mumbai Fire Brigade personnel, along with police and other emergency services, were dispatched to the scene behind R City Mall on LBS road. MUMBAI: A fire broke out on the fourth floor of a 15-storey residential tower in Ghatkopar (West) on Sunday afternoon. The Mumbai Fire…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only NEW DELHI: Authorities began demolishing the illegal portion of a mosque in the Mangolpuri area of northwest Delhi on Sunday, news agency PTI reported. The action comes in compliance with an order issued by the Delhi high court. Officials maintained that only unauthorised construction is being targeted in the…
Pune: The Uttamnagar police have launched a manhunt for the driver of a tempo for assaulting a manager (32) of an eatery at Shivane around 11.30pm on Friday.The incident occurred after the manager requested passage to his society through a narrow lane.The eatery manager sustained head injuries and stab wounds in his stomach. He was…
Mumbai: A day after being appointed as a director on the Mumbai District Central Co-operative Bank (MDCCB), former Shiv Sena (UBT) corporator Tejasvee Ghosalkar said on Saturday that politics and the cooperative sector were two different things. Ghosalkar stated that it would be wrong to view her appointment through a political lens. She said that…
