NEW DELHI: University of Delhi’s push to bring in philanthropic funding for campus development by offering timebound naming rights to major donors has had a slow start, with only one donation-backed construction project underway and no building renamed.Data provided by the university shows that donation inflow till last year amount to about Rs 2.3 crore,…
Pune: A 30-year-old woman allegedly ended her life by hanging herself from the ceiling of her rented house in Gokulnagar Pathar, Warje Malwadi, after strangling her two-year-old daughter between Friday morning and late afternoon.Her husband, an electrician (30), filed a complaint with the Warje police later that night. “The child was suffering from severe health…
Mumbai: A fire broke out in a high-rise residential building in Andheri West on Saturday afternoon at 2.10 pm at Chandiwala Pearl Regency on SV Road, opposite the Andheri subway.According to officials, the fire was confined to the 1st floor of the ground-plus-18-storey building and originated from electric wiring in the electric duct between the…
NEW DELHI: An elderly couple was found murdered at their residence in east Delhi’s Shahdara in the early hours of Sunday.The deceased were identified as Parvesh Bansal (65), a homemaker, and her husband, Virender Kumar Bansal (75), a retired teacher.Police received a PCR call around 12.30am from the couple’s son, who reported that both his…
Pune: The BJP state chief, Ravindra Chavan, on Saturday cited the example of Kalyan-Dombivli municipal body to justify the unopposed election of 68 Mahayuti candidates in different municipal corporations to counter the opposition’s charge of power misuse. Chavan said, “BJP and Shiv Sena contested against each other for several years in Kalyan-Dombivli. This time, BJP…
Priya Sarvankar Gurav, a candidate from the Shivsena-BJP Alliance, files the nomination for the BMC election 2026 MUMBAI: A closer look at the BJP’s list of 137 candidates for the upcoming BMC elections shows a tilt towards women. Of the total nominees, 76 are women and 61 are men- among the party’s highest-ever representation of…
New Delhi: Police arrested 3 people in connection with a burglary involving Rs 32 lakh in cash and jewellery at the residence of a senior citizen in south Delhi’s Ambedkar Nagar.The accused were identified as Ishaq alias Kalua (24), Pawan (26), and Bharat (23). Police said the burglary was reported on Jan 1, when a…
Pune: Shiv Sena politician and state cabinet minister Uday Samant on Saturday kicked off the party’s campaign for the Jan 15 Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) election, saying any decision on Pune mayor would require Sena’s consent as the party was poised to win a significant share of seats.Samant said discussions with BJP regarding a possible…
Thane: The forest department stepped up vigilance in parts of the city abutting the forest areas following the sighting of a leopard at two different spots in the early hours of Saturday. The forest staff is investigating whether the wild cat spotted on the two different CCTV footages sourced from the locations is the same….
New Delhi: Two men were arrested for ATM fraud in south west Delhi, wherein they jammed the cash-dispensing shutter using metallic clips and later stole the trapped cash.The arrests were made by Kishangarh police team. Both accused were identified as Salman. Police seized 1 country-made pistol, 2 live cartridges, Rs 12,700 in cash, 4 ATM…
