Pune: Starting May 1, Pune airport will begin operationalising 15 additional flight slots granted by the Indian Air Force (IAF) last year, airport director Santosh Dhoke announced on Monday.The activation of these slots brings the total capacity at the airport to 235, of which 216 are already in use. “The remaining slots will be allocated…
New Delhi: A 33-year-old daily wage labourer, who went to clean a drain, was found dead after allegedly drowning in it in northeast Delhi’s Dilshad Garden on Monday afternoon.The deceased has been identified as Rahul, a resident of Sundar Nagar. Accordint to police, two daily wage workers were assigned to carry out desilting work in…
Pune: A 48-year-old techie from Lohegaon has lodged a complaint with the Pune cyber police, alleging that online fraudsters duped him of Rs 69 lakh by promising high returns on cryptocurrency investments.The victim, who works with a prominent company in Hadapsar, told police that the fraud took place between May and Nov 2025. He initially…
A Nigerian national died in police custody in West Delhi’s Rajouri Garden on Sunday, police said.According to police he was riding a scooter on the wrong side of the road towards Rajouri Garden Metro Station. Suspecting foul play, cops attempted to stop him.“The man rammed his scooter into a police motorcycle, fell on the road,…
Pune: Long before taps and pipelines, residents of Elephanta Island off Mumbai’s mainland appear to have engineered a sophisticated solution to a pressing problem—how to store drinking water on a rocky island where most of the rain drains into the sea.A newly excavated 1,500-year-old reservoir on the island offers a rare glimpse into that ingenuity….
NEW DELHI: Delhi may have seen its warmest March in four years (since 2022), as the average monthly maximum temperature by March 30 stood at 32.5 degrees Celsius and minimum at 17.5 degrees Celsius. The city, however, recorded much cooler second half of the month than the first, even though mercury typically touches 40 degrees…
Pune: The standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) recently approved a flyover project at the Mahatma Phule Chowk that will come as a relief to commuters and residents suffering from intense traffic snarls in the Keshavnagar, Mundhwa, Hadapsar and Manjari areas.People have been holding agitations over the last two years over the demand,…
Image used for representational purpose only NEW DELHI: Delhi’s ambitious hospital expansion plan has hit a prolonged roadblock, with 11 major projects stalled since 2023, leaving over 10,000 beds stuck in the pipeline.Large hospitals such as GTB, Raghubir Nagar and Shalimar Bagh — each with about 1,500 beds — have remained that way since July…
New Delhi: A QR code-based initiative launched by Samagra Shiksha Delhi was designed to simplify and accelerate the identification and enrolment of out-of-school children. The concept was straightforward and impactful. By scanning a QR code placed on posters, walls or digital platforms, any individual, be it a concerned citizen, teacher, or volunteer, could directly report…
New Delhi: For 12-year-old Dev, dropping out of school was not a sudden step but the result of a gradual unravelling. His mother died when he was young. His father, who used to be often unwell, passed away soon after. His stepmother then left him never to return. “Everything in my life stopped,” he says.Dev,…
