Mumbai: The state on Friday informed Bombay high court that Kherwadi police station, Bandra East, registered an FIR against the president of a sports body on a complaint of sexual harassment by a woman athlete. The FIR followed Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Neela Gokhale’s direction on Wednesday to the police-in-charge to record her statement…
New Delhi: At Indira Gandhi International Airport’s international arrivals, a two-year-old boy clutched his grandmother’s dupatta, his eyes fixed on the glass doors. The moment they slid open and his mother stepped through, he squealed. Shabnam, 30, dropped her bag and ran to him, scooping him up in a tearful embrace that brought even strangers…
Pune: A team of doctors from Army Hospital (Research and Referral) flew in on an Indian Air Force’s Super Hercules aircraft on Friday night to collect and transport a liver and two kidneys from a 59-year-old brain-dead woman in Pune to New Delhi for transplantation, after her family generously consented to organ donation. The donor,…
Nagpur: Organised crime is not limited by borders and has a devastating impact on the country’s economy and internal security by enabling terrorism, Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court observed while overturning a lower court order that denied police custody of a member of a crime syndicate.Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke, while granting seven-day police custody to…
New Delhi: A 24-year-old woman was killed at a hotel in central Delhi’s Paharganj allegedly on suspicion of an extramarital affair on Friday night. An inquiry revealed that it was the husband who called Uttar Pradesh Police, admitting to killing his wife. Delhi Police has arrested him. At 3am on Friday, police received a call…
Pune: Holiday and business travellers are now increasingly purchasing more expensive travel insurance policies, experts said, as anxieties mounted over possible disruptions such as Covid surges, war, hospitalizations abroad and issues with airline safety. In Pune too, flyers said they did not mind paying the premium, as long as a range of unforeseen events were…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray engaged in dinner diplomacy with all his MPs and MLAs from Mumbai late on Friday and asked them to hit the ground running for the BMC polls. With the BMC elections, slated for Oct-Nov, Uddhav asked all his MPs and MLAs from Mumbai to devote time to the…
New Delhi: Rain and thunderstorms are likely over the next seven days, with India Meteorological Department issuing a yellow alert for moderate to heavy showers for Sunday and Monday. IMD said the southwest monsoon was likely to reach Delhi by June 24-25.Parts of Delhi received rain on Saturday. Safdarjung, the city’s base station, and Aya…
Pune: A girl (15) from Raja Bahadur Mill Road, reported missing by her parents on May 25, was found dead on a platform at Jabalpur railway station in Madhya Pradesh on June 17, while her distant relative (22) was spotted in an unconscious state in Nagpur.Senior inspector Ravindra Gaikwad of the Bund Garden police said,…
Thane: Troubled by potholes, locals near the crucial Shahad railway flyover connecting Kalyan and Ulhasnagar on National Highway 61 held a protest. People sat in them and protested, demanding action against the contractor responsible for the poor quality of the road.Just a few days after the rains, large potholes had emerged on the flyover.After a…
