Mumbai: A police team will head to Bihar to look for the 25-year-old mother of two who allegedly slashed her lover’s private parts with a sharp weapon after he refused to leave his wife and marry her. The incident took place after the New Year celebrations at her Santacruz residence in the wee hours of…
New Delhi: Two senior residents of Vasant Kunj, aged 70 and 65 years, were allegedly cheated of over Rs 1.5 crore after being lured by scammers who posed as representatives of a reputed financial institution and promised them unusually high returns on their investments. The cheats approached the two elderly residents, who are also relatives,…
Pune: A specialised running camp-cum-workshop titled “Surviving the Marathon Season” would be held at I-Sport Hospital in Balewadi from 10 am to 1pm on Sunday.The programme is aimed at helping runners train smartly, prevent injuries, and maintain both physical and mental well-being during the demanding marathon season. The expert-led sessions will include Varun Pujar on…
Mumbai: In a relief for one of India’s oldest industrial houses, the Bombay city civil court has quashed a decades-old govt notification that sought to classify Godrej & Boyce manufacturing land in Vikhroli as a slum area. The judgment concludes the legal case, effectively shielding the private property from state acquisition under the Maharashtra Slum…
NEW DELHI: The New Year evening was streaked with blood with three almost back-to-back stabbings leaving an equal number of people dead in Delhi.Bihari Lal, 50, was fatally attacked by a group of juveniles in northwest Delhi’s Lal Bagh area after he asked them to stop shouting and playing loud music.A tailor by profession, Lal…
Pune: Aspirants of the police sub-inspector exam conducted by the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) held a protest around 1am on Thursday in the Shastri Road area to protest the delay in publication of the recruitment advertisement and the resulting problem of age limit preventing many from attempting the test.The protesters have demanded the state…
Mumbai: The Govt Railway Police (GRP) has started setting up a helpdesk at every suburban railway station in the city forvisible policing and to rush help to commuters in emergencies. GRP commissioner Rakesh Kalasagar has come out with a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for operation of helpdesks. “Often, commuters don’t know how to reach GRP…
Apathy doesn’t have a time stamp. Your lungs do. In November 2024, TOI highlighted how a new dust bowl had emerged at Khyber Pass near Delhi University in north Delhi. Though authorities had razed several illegal structures in August that year, the area continues to resemble a ravaged, post-apocalyptic landscape as the city steps into…
PUNE: Nationalist Congress Party leader and former corporator Amol Balwadkar contesting from ward no 9 (Sus-Baner-Pashan) on Friday cautioned political opponents against making derogatory or misleading remarks about senior NCP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. Speaking at an event in the city, Balwadkar said that leaders who, in his view, are associated with…
Mumbai’s Parvez Suleman Lakdawala, a Memon businessman, received an honorary doctorate at the UK Parliament for his over three decades of work in real estate and slum redevelopment MUMBAI: City-based Memon businessman Parvez Suleman Lakdawala was recently awarded honourary doctorate at the UK Parliament. Given at the House of Lords at “Sorbon International Convention” held…
