Mumbai: The Thackeray cousins, Uddhav and Raj, will address 7 to 8 joint rallies for the Municipal Corporation elections in a blitz campaign from Jan 2 to 13. Sena (UBT) functionaries said at least 3 rallies will be held in Mumbai for the BMC polls in the last phase of the campaign to end the…
Pune: Two days after resigning from NCP (SP), former Pune mayor Prashant Jagtap on Friday joined Congress in Mumbai in the presence of party’s state unit chief Harshvardhan Sapkal and other senior members, including Vijay Wadettiwar and Mohan Joshi.Speaking to media persons after his induction, Jagtap refused to comment on his exit from NCP (SP)…
Mumbai: A 43-year-old real estate broker was arrested on charges of rape and exploiting his business partner with the false promise of marriage, besides threatening and stalking her.The Amboli police on Saturday arrested the broker and was produced before the Andheri Metropolitan Magistrate court which remanded him to police custody.His lawyer Prabhakar Tripathi alleged that…
Pune: Chinchwad MLA of the BJP Shankar Jagtap on Friday said the party will release its first list of candidates for the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) elections on Sunday. Jagtap, who is also the BJP’s election in-charge for PCMC, said the local unit had submitted the final list of aspirants to the state leadership….
Mumbai: A doctor was arrested by Malwani police for sexually assaulting a minor patient. He has been booked under provisions of Pocso Act.The incident occurred two days ago. The 12-year-old victim was unwell and was taken to see the doctor at a clinic. During examination, he sexually assaulted her. The child later complained to her…
Pune: A special MCOCA court has allowed gangster Suryakant alias Bandu Andekar, his daughter-in-law, Sonali Vanraj Andekar, and his sister-in-law, Laxmi Udaykant Andekar, all arrested in the Sept 5 murder of his grandson, Ayush Komkar (18), to file their nomination papers on Saturday with police escort for the upcoming PMC elections.Special judge SR Salunkhe noted…
Mumbai: The state govt has decided that the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF) can now be used to provide assistance to Maharashtrian organisations outside Maharashtra as well.Earlier, the state govt decided to provide assistance to 865 villages in the Maharashtra-Karnataka border area from the relief fund. This included aid to social, educational, cultural, charitable, or…
Pune: A special POCSO court in the city convicted and sentenced a farmer to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a nine-year-old Std IV school girl known to his family, on Aug 28, 2020, in Shirur.The court of special judge Mahendra K Mahajan on Dec 19 primarily relied on the medical evidence and stated,…
Mumbai: With New Year celebrations around the corner and in the wake of a deadly fire at a Goa nightclub which claimed 25 lives earlier this month, the Mumbai fire brigade has stepped up inspections across the city. They carried out fire safety checks at 1,221 establishments under a Special Fire Safety Drive between Dec…
Pune: A city activist has said Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) should make its data more accessible and transparent, even as the varsity skirted the matter over access to public records.President of Sajag Nagrik Manch Vivek Velankar filed an RTI seeking implementation of a general administration department (GAD)’s 2018 circular that requires public authorities to…
