Mumbai: A scrap with a co-traveller while getting off a local train left a 47-year-old commuter with injuries to his face caused by a wrench.The incident took place when the victim, Suresh Patil, was travelling in a packed second class compartment of a Borivli-bound train from Virar on Sept 22. Around 10.15am, while getting off…
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday announced that Union home minister Amit Shah would inaugurate 46 projects aimed at the revival of the Yamuna on Sept 30. The projects will cost over Rs 4,000 crore. Delhi Jal Board is gearing up for the grand inauguration of its biggest 124 million gallons per day…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed Maharashtra govt to reply to a petition by an independent journalist seeking police protection as she was facing life threats.Chief justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad were hearing a plea by Sneha Barve, founder editor of Samarth Bharat newspaper and Samarth Bharat Pariwar, a You Tube…
Mumbai: No hoarding will be allowed on footpaths and digital ones should not be taller than traffic signals, the state govt has said based on the recommendations of a high-level inquiry committee set up following the Ghatkopar hoarding crash that killed 17 persons in May last year. It also said civic bodies must prepare and…
New Delhi: Delhi Police’s special cell has busted an illegal cartridge manufacturing factory in Moradabad allegedly supplying bullets to criminals of Delhi, UP and Haryana. Three suspected suppliers have been arrested while the hunt is on for others.Additional commissioner Pramod Kushwaha said the factory only prepared ammunition and was discovered near the residence of one…
Mumbai: Major General Vivek Tyagi, recently appointed as Additional Director General of the Maharashtra NCC Directorate, made a courtesy call on Advocate Manikrao Kokate, Hon’ble Sports & Youth Affairs Minister of Maharashtra, at Mantralaya in Mumbai. The meeting briefed on important ongoing NCC initiatives, including the expansion being undertaken to increase the enrolled strength of…
NEW DELHI: Delhi govt has permitted the use of loudspeakers until midnight instead of 10pm for Ramlila and Durga Puja celebrations with CM Rekha Gupta arguing that Hindu festivals “face difficulties due to restricted timings for use of loudspeakers”. The relaxation, in force till Oct 3, comes even as 20 of 26 noise monitoring stations…
Navi Mumbai: Nerul police booked three miscreant transgenders for performing an obscene dance after stopping vehicles at a traffic signal under the Nerul flyover on the Sion-Panvel highway on Tuesday morning.Nerul police said that the accused transgender persons were detained and escorted to the police station, where an FIR was registered against them under Bharatiya…
Sharada Peetham Institute cuts all ties with manager NEW DELHI: Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati, former manager of a private engineering institute in south west Delhi’s Vasant Kunj, has been booked on allegations of sexually harassing multiple female students and is currently absconding. In response, the institute has formally severed all ties with him.In a public statement,…
Mumbai: Metro passengers can now book a single QR ticket for journeys involving multiple lines, ending the hassle of juggling different apps. The new OneTicket app has been launched on the govt-backed Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) network to provide unified ticketing across the city’s Metro corridors.At present, Mumbai has around 70 km of…
