MUMBAI: In a feat that has brought pride to the Brihanmumbai Police force, the 10-year-old son of two serving police personnel has clinched a gold and a bronze medal at the 69th School Games Federation of India (SGFI) National Skating Championship. Om Sainath Shinde won the medals in the under-11 category at the national tournament…
NEW DELHI: Following recent deaths in Indore due to contaminated water, Delhi water minister Parvesh Sahib Singh has instructed the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to conduct strict checks to prevent a similar tragedy in the national capital, officials said on Wednesday. The Delhi government has issued directives to the DJB, to be implemented immediately.“Intensify regular…
Pune: In the fickle theatre of politics, Suresh Kalmadi‘s ascent was sudden. So was his decline.The fighter pilot-turned-youth Congress member clawed his way out of obscurity and hogged headlines not through a slow toil, but through a singular, theatrical act of defiance — throwing a shoe at the convoy of then Prime Minister Morarji Desai…
MUMBAI: International Sufi Caravan head Mufti Manzur Ziyaee has strongly condemned the attack on Hindus in Bangladesh.In a statement, Mumbai-based Ziayee has said that the incidents of killing, mobile lynchings and harassment of members of the minority Hindu community is highly condemnable. He has asked Bangladesh’s interim chief Muhammad Yunus and his administration to crack…
Image Credit: TimesContent.com (TOI Archive) KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday shared a poem in support of jailed activist Umar Khalid after the Supreme Court denied him bail in a case linked to the 2020 north-east Delhi riots.Moitra posted the poem on X, titled “You will rise, Umar Khalid”, writing, “You Will Rise,…
Pune: State govt has maintained silence on the status of the Kharge-led committee probing alleged irregularities in the Mundhwa land purchase linked to deputy CM Ajit Pawar’s son Parth, even after the panel’s one-month extended tenure ended on Tuesday.Text messages sent by TOI to additional chief secretary (revenue) and committee head Vikas Kharge seeking clarity…
MUMBAI: Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan, recently released in Delhi the book “Khutbat-e-Modi: Lal Qila Ki Faseel Se”, a compilation of the Independence Day addresses delivered by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Red Fort between 2014 and 2025.Published in Urdu and brought out by the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language…
NEW DELHI: AIIMS New Delhi launched free cervical cancer screening through January under a public-interest drive, as India continues to lose 1 woman every 8 minutes to a disease doctors say is largely preventable.As part of Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, Preventive Oncology at the Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital and the National Cancer Institute, in collaboration…
Pune: Former Pune MP, Union minister and Congress veteran Suresh Kalmadi, a prominent public figure whose career spanned politics, sports administration and civic life, passed away in the city on Tuesday after a prolonged illness. He was 81.Kalmadi’s mortal remains were kept at his residence, where several political leaders, including deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar,…
MUMBAI: Vakola police arrested a 25-year-old homemaker who allegedly slashed the private parts of her relative for refusing to marry her, after celebrating the New Year with him on January 1 at her home in Santacruz East. Police said she was on the run with her husband and two sons after the incident. The accused…
