New Delhi: Cab ride-sharing services may resume soon in NCR as Delhi govt has asked app-based aggregators to restart this service in a month and begin work on a citywide carpooling framework to reduce congestion and pollution.The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa. It was attended by…
Pune: Scrutiny of nominations has become an uphill task for election officers across Maharashtra as a whopping 33,606 forms were received against 2,869 seats in the 29 corporations. While Jan 2 is the last date for withdrawal of nominations, a final list of candidates will be released after the examination the next day.Political analysts said…
The BMC polls saw an intense scramble for tickets, with 2,516 candidates filing nominations for 227 seats, 84% on the final day MUMBAI: In the days leading up to the nomination deadline for the BMC polls, the frenzy for tickets was unmistakable. From political heavyweights pushing family members into the fray, to grassroots karyakartas staking…
New Delhi: A total of 137 police personnel were conferred with honorary ranks on the day of their retirement during a ceremonial event held at the Delhi Police headquarters on Wednesday.The retiring personnel—ranging from the rank of constable to sub-inspector—were awarded badges of their next higher honorary rank in front of their family members. The…
Pune: The Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat has urged chief minister Devendra Fadnavis to strictly enforce Maharashtra Ownership of Flats (MOFA) Act provisions and demanded immediate withdrawal of its recent amendments which they termed unjust, anti-consumer and against public interest — effectively granting “legal immunity” to builders by removing criminal liability for violations.The group wants that…
Mumbai: Two BJP candidates allotted tickets for civic wards 211 and 212 failed to file their nomination papers within the stipulated deadline of 5 pm on Dec 30, triggering embarrassment for the party and sharpening the focus on last-minute candidate announcements ahead of the high-stakes BMC polls. Both are first-time entrants into electoral politics.Returning Officer…
NEW DELHI: When 75-year-old Ghulam Qadir Burki, a retired gemstone businessman and dementia patient from Srinagar, went missing in south Delhi, his family’s lives came to a standstill.For 26 days, every phone call sparked hope, every night ended in despair, and the question of whether he was even alive loomed painfully over them. What followed…
NASHIK/CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: Aslam Shabbir Jahagirdar alias Bunty Jahagirdar (53), a resident of Shrirampur in Ahilyanagar district and one of the accused in the 2012 Pune’s JM Road serial bomb blasts case, was gunned down by two bike-borne men when he was returning home from a graveyard after paying homage to a relative on Wednesday afternoon.Jahagirdar…
Mumbai: The principle of ‘family first’ is evident this election season. A cursory analysis of the BMC poll nominations showed that at least 43 politicans have got tickets for their family members, including wives, children, siblings, in-laws, cousins, and even distant relatives. While BJP MLA Rahul Narwekar, Congress MLA Aslam Shaikh and former NCP MLA…
NEW DELHI: Delhi woke up under a thick blanket of fog on Thursday, with visibility plunging across large parts of the city and the National Capital Region (NCR) as air quality stayed in the ‘very poor’ category. The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 372 at 7am, according to data from the Central Pollution…
