Mumbai: Animal Animal lovers and activists on Saturday held a silent protest at Carter Road in Bandra West over the installation of ‘No Pets Allowed’ notices along the seaside promenade by the Bandra Bandstand Residents Trust. They said that only a competent authority, like the BMC, has the right to issue any public notice along…
Eleven-year-old skateboarder Dhyan Joshi stood near a deep pit and piles of rubble on Pashan-Sus Road, where until a few weeks ago was a stretch lined with smooth concrete ramps, flocked by enthusiastic athletes of all ages. “The place that inspired me to learn skateboarding has vanished into thin air. Some new road is being…
Mumbai: In a strongly worded “bold order”, a sessions court has held that the time has come to give strong message to executive officers and bureaucrats that their omission and inaction to take proper action at appropriate time is causing serious issues regarding the country’s as well as the state’s economy.Setting aside a magistrate’s order…
New Delhi: To tighten control, improve traceability and prevent the misuse of outdated product codes in the liquor supply chain, Delhi govt has announced fresh brand registrations for 2026–27 along with a reset of liquor barcodes — an annual exercise undertaken at the change of the financial year.“On March 31 at 23:59:59, the validity of…
Nashik/Nagpur: A magistrate court on Sunday extended astrologer Ashok Kharat’s remand in police custody till April 1 in a rape case after the investigating officer cited an ongoing probe and the need for digital experts to analyse a cloned copy of his seized phone in his presence.The special investigation team (SIT) probing the case has…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has busted an investment fraud racket with Dubai links and arrested five alleged fraudsters in connection with a syndicate. Police said the accused are linked to at least 18 complaints, and analysis of the accounts indicates transactions worth several crores.Police said the case came to light after a complainant, a resident…
Mumbai: Among the mourners who assembled at the iconic Masjid-e-Iranian at Dongri on Sunday to condole the killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Syed Ali Khamenei was a little girl. She offered her gold earrings to Abdul Majid Hakeem Ilahi, the representative of Iran’s supreme leader in India, as a way to help the war-hit…
New Delhi: Bringing relief to hundreds of taxpayers in Lutyens’ Delhi and ending a long-standing dispute over property tax calculation, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is set to implement the unit area method uniformly across its jurisdiction.The move is part of key amendments proposed under the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2026, which seeks…
PUNE: An international student was allegedly sexually harassed in the girls’ hostel on the Savitribai Phule Pune University campus on Friday night by a delivery agent. He was arrested on Saturday.Students complained that this is the second such incident within a month’s time at the same hostel, which has no permanent security guards or CCTV…
Thane: Thousands of households across several parts of Thane, including Vasant Vihar, parts of Ghodbunder Highway, Kolshet, Manpada, Majiwada and Balkum, woke up to major inconvenience Sunday morning following a snag in the power transmission lines that led to a sudden four-hour-long electricity cut.Officials said a Padgha–Kamba–Kharbav–Kolshet transmission line tripped at 6:05 AM, while another…
