PUNE: Rain and thunderstorm activities are likely across several regions in Maharashtra from Monday, ushering in a change in weather after a prolonged dry spell through most of March.The state is likely to see a transition in the weather pattern next week, driven by developing weather systems over central and southern parts of the country….
For Malabar Hill resident Mehul N. Shah, the daily commute home has an ironic twist — after a swift drive on Coastal Road, nearly 40% of his total travel time is spent crawling through a 300-metre stretch after exiting at Breach Candy. Shah, who is also vice president of Bharat Diamond Bourse in BKC, is…
IndiGo flight 6E 579 from Visakhapatnam to Delhi made a safe emergency landing at IGIA on Saturday morning after suffering an engine failure New Delhi: A 15-year-old Boeing 737 with about 170 people on board operating IndiGo flight 6E 579 from Visakhapatnam to Delhi made a safe emergency landing at IGIA on Saturday morning after…
Nashik: The special investigating team (SIT), constituted for cases against rape-accused astrologer Ashok Kharat, has decided to seek appointment of a forensic auditor to investigate trails of his cash gains.“Kharat sold gemstones, polished tamarind seeds and gold. He charged large sums in cash for performing pujas and other rituals in India and abroad. He may…
Mumbai: Police have booked a 20-year-old man and his accomplice for allegedly abusing and assaulting a college girl and her fiance in Wadala on Thursday afternoon.The complainant told police that Ayan Pandlekar was stalking her for some time and on Thursday he followed her again. She then called up her fiance and informed him about…
New Delhi: Legal and political institutions cannot achieve their objectives unless individuals internalise values of fairness, restraint and respect for others’ rights, attorney general R Venkataramani said on Saturday while addressing jurists, policymakers and legal professionals at Vidhi Utsav 2026.The two-day event, organised by Oakridge Publishing at the Constitution Club of India, brought together senior…
Pune: Researchers have devised a clever method to correct distance errors in galaxy measurements, making our maps of the universe and our understanding of dark matter and cosmic evolution much more accurate.Divya Rana of Leiden University and Surhud More of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, recently published their findings in Physical…
Mumbai: The CSMI airport commissionerate, Mumbai customs cone-III authorities have destroyed a total of 1,010.8 kgs of NDPS drugs valued at around Rs 1,079 crore during the financial year 2025-26. The last lot in this destruction drive was carried out on March 27 where over 376 kg narcotic substances were disposed of. The exercise underscores…
NEW DELHI: A man was allegedly abducted, assaulted and robbed of around Rs 7 lakh after being lured through a dating app to meet a woman in southeast Delhi’s Nehru Place.Five people, including a woman, have been arrested.On Wednesday, the man approached police and reported that he had been contacted by a woman, whose profile…
Mumbai: Even as the police were eager to bring chain snatching under the ambit of the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), with the prosecution’s failure to provide documentary evidence linking the accused to a criminal syndicate, it has not stuck in all cases. While a special court this week convicted and sentenced…
