Pune: Union minister of culture and tourism Gajendra Singh Shekhawat‘s visit to Shaniwarwada on Thursday raised the hope of history buffs with his announcement of using technology to enhance the visitor experience. However, it also brought disappointment to the residents living within 100m of the monument, as he did not announce any relief to allow…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Association of Minority Educational Institutions has written to the school education department requesting the immediate withdrawal of the social and constitutional reservations imposed on minority colleges for admissions to first-year junior colleges (FYJC) in minority institutions. The association has also asked the department to correct the calculation of management and in-house quota…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court refused relief to a student who missed the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) by six minutes, citing the sanctity and discipline of examinations.The 18-year-old candidate had moved the court claiming that on May 13 she reached the exam centre at around 8.36 am – six minutes beyond the scheduled time…
Mumbai: In a rare case, an FIR was registered after stones were thrown at the Metro One car shed in Andheri (E) on Tuesday. The Amboli police lodged a case against an unidentified individual after small stones, comparable to marble balls in size, were thrown onto the glass roof of the car shed. Workers inside…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested three fraudsters from Rajasthan’s Mewat for running a sextortion racket that extorted Rs 14 lakh from a man in the capital. The accused posed as Crime Branch officers, manipulated the victim into a compromising situation during a WhatsApp video call, and then used the footage to blackmail him over…
Mumbai: A man who was getting off a train from the wrong side, trying to slip in between two iron bars alongside the tracks died after his neck got wedged between two vertical iron bars at Mumbai Central railway station, a little after 9.30 am on Wednesday. He was left dangling between two bars of…
New Delhi: New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is set to start its intensive tree planting drive in early July, coinciding with the monsoon.The initiative aims to plant 2,039 trees and roughly 4.82 lakh shrubs during the financial year throughout NDMC’s jurisdiction.Officials said the 2025 targets were established following a comprehensive assessment that identified locations where…
Pune: Boys, along with girls, must be vaccinated against Human Papillomavirus (HPV), doctors at the launch of the “Conquer HPV & Cancer Conclave 2025” last week said.Panelists said that govt backs vaccination for girls under the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP), but boys and men, who are carriers of the virus, are equally affected by HPV…
Mumbai: The city witnessed an exceptionally wet May this year, with south Mumbai recording its highest rainfall for the month in over a century.While the IMD’s Colaba observatory broke the all-time rainfall record for May by logging 503 mm — surpassing the previous record of 279.4 mm set in May 1918 — area-specific data from…
New Delhi: Nearly three weeks after businessman Arun Lohia was fatally shot inside his SUV near Chhatarpur Metro Station in South Delhi, two of the alleged shooters were injured and arrested during a police encounter on the Chirag Delhi–Khanpur stretch on Thursday. Investigations revealed that the killing stemmed from a land dispute. A third suspect…
