NEW DELHI: Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a senior Air India pilot with nearly three decades of flying experience, was among those who died in Thursday’s plane crash shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad. Sabharwal, had called his family from the airport, assuring them he would ring again after landing in London. That call never came. His final…
Delhi faces a grim reality. Rain brings electrocution deaths. Exposed wires and open junction boxes are rampant. Civic bodies are slow to act. Electric poles under flyovers are death traps. NEW DELHI: In the capital, each spell of rain portends a disturbing trend – deaths due to electrocution. Despite mounting fatalities, civic authorities remain unresponsive,…
Pune: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has returned to the politically charged world of sugar cooperatives election after almost 40 years, filing his own nomination for the Malegaon mills.He will be one among the 90 candidates in the fray for 21 seats to the Malegaon sugar mill board, which has been under the control of…
A tragic incident occurred where nine Air India crew members and two pilots from Mumbai died. Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a pilot since 1994, is survived by his father. Co-pilot Clive Kunder’s family resided in Borivli. MUMBAI: Nine Air India crew members and the two pilots who lost their lives were based in the city and…
New Delhi: Winter’s chill was just beginning to settle over the city on Dec 22, 2015, when a wave of dread swept across southwest Delhi’s Dwarka. A Beechcraft Super King aircraft, operated by Border Security Force, took off from Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi for Ranchi. Within minutes, the routine flight, carrying 10 people,…
Pune: A woman (28) on Tuesday registered a complaint with the Pune cybercrime police stating that she lost Rs8.4 lakh in a matrimonial fraud.The woman is working with an NGO and residing in Yerawada. A case has been registered and the investigations are underway, an officer from the Pune cybercrime police said.The officer said the…
Mumbai: The school education department may have to allow students from socially and economically backward classes to change their preferences on the FYJC admission portal following Bombay high court’s stay on the controversial clause in the May 6 govt resolution (GR) that introduced social reservations in the 50% non-minority seats in minority institutions, said principals…
New Delhi: Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has approved an investigation against a former executive engineer of the Public Works Department (PWD), Health Zone, in connection with an alleged scam involving forged bills and unauthorised payments to private contractors, resulting in a loss of Rs 200 crore to the state exchequer.Officials said a retired chief engineer…
Pune: The Dehu Road police are searching for a man who is on the run after stabbing a 16-year-old youth to death and assaulting the victim’s 14-year-old cousin. The incident happened late on Wednesday night on an open plot near Sainathnagar. The victim’s body was found in a forest area near Thomas Colony in Dehu…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court has dismissed appeals filed by the Leela Group against eviction proceedings initiated by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) over its Mumbai plots leased out for building a hotel. The court observed that the lease period expired long ago, and eviction was not an issue amenable to arbitration under the…
