Pune: Several party workers from the BJP and the NCP in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad have been denied tickets for the upcoming municipal elections, following the induction of aspirants from rival parties.The move has triggered widespread discontent, with many former corporators and hopefuls switching parties or contesting as independents.Among those denied tickets are multiple former…
Mumbai: Nagpada police have arrested a man accused of raping a 16-year-old girl near Mumbai Central railway station after months-long investigation that began with only his first name, Sanjay (name changed), and no photograph, contact number, or address.The govt railway police (GRP) personnel in Madhya Pradesh found the teenage girl and sent her for a…
New Delhi: The record-breaking vehicle sales in the city in 2025 come with a warning — the growth is overwhelmingly driven by private vehicles, not public or shared transport.Of the 8,16,051 new registrations, around 7.2 lakh were private vehicles, highlighting that most buyers added personal vehicles rather than choosing public transport. About 75% of these…
Pune: A man (53) lost Rs 61 lakh after cybercrooks in two separate mobile messenger groups promised him good profit after investing in share market via them between June and Nov 2025.According to the Sant Tukaramnagar police, the victim works at an engineering firm at Chakan MIDC. The fraudsters contacted him through a mobile messenger…
Hany Babu entered Navi Mumbai’s Taloja prison in July 2020. Anand Teltumbde followed the same year. Babu spent five years inside before being released on bail; Teltumbde was released in 2022 after spending about two-and-a-half years in prison. Neither has faced trial.According to the India Justice Report 2025, undertrials now account for around 75% of…
New Delhi: Nearly 700 undergraduate and postgraduate aspirants who took admission to Delhi University through the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) this year later cancelled their seats, official data shows. It highlights an annual pattern in the admission cycle where withdrawals add to the large number of vacancies at the end of the process. Delhi…
Pune: A 25-year-old scrap vendor died after a container truck crashed into their shop along the Pune-Solapur highway at Patas in Daund Taluka, about 80km from Pune. The accident happened in the early hours of Wednesday, when the victim and his four workers were sleeping inside the shop. The workers escaped unhurt in the accident,…
MUMBAI: A nationwide New Year’s Eve strike to protest low pay and lack of social security benefits elicited a mixed response from delivery workers even as app-based platforms offered festive bonuses in a bid to counter delayed service and manpower shortage. Most customers had no clue about the strike but several orders were inordinately delayed.Anticipating…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea by an alleged gangster claiming that he was coerced to sign documents, including a confession, in jail by police.Recently, the court was hearing a plea by Saleem Ahmed, an accused under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), arrested in a case linked to gangster Hashim…
Pune: The state cooperation department will launch an online system for housing societies’ registration from this year, reducing the number of mandatory documents from 29 to 19. The move aims to simplify the long-pending paperwork-heavy process, cut down visits to deputy registrars’ offices, curb middlemen’s intervention and speed up approvals across the state. A formal…
