Thane: A sessions court in Thane convicted a Bangladeshi national for illegally staying in India after the expiry of her visa and sentenced her to 1 year of rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 1,000. The court also directed that she be deported to Bangladesh after completing the jail term, granting set-off for…
New Delhi: Delhi Police‘s Southern Range conducted a large-scale crime control exercise under Operation Aaghat 3.0, targeting organised crime, habitual offenders and public order violations across multiple districts, police said on Thursday. The operation, carried out under the supervision of senior officers of the South and South-East districts, involved intelligence-based checking, verification drives and targeted…
Pune: The Regional Provident Fund (RPF) commissioner, Pune, in a quasi-judicial case, directed the Sinhagad Technical Education Society (STES) to remit Rs120.9 crore in the provident fund (PF) accounts of the society’s employees for the default period from March 2014 to Dec 2018.The amount is to be remitted within 60 days from Dec 17 when…
New Delhi: After over a month in custody, six people arrested over an anti-pollution agitation near India Gate were granted bail by a Delhi court on Friday. The court held that their continued incarceration would serve “no fruitful purpose” as they were not required for any further investigation and that the prosecution failed to show…
Pune: Former BJP corporator Uday Joshi (64), who was lodged in Yerawada Central Jail following his arrest in a cheating case last year, died while undergoing treatment at the Sassoon General Hospital on Friday morning. Joshi and his son were arrested in Dec 2024 on the charge of allegedly cheating people of over Rs1 crore…
New Delhi: Acting on complaints from food business operators over alleged unauthorised inspections, Delhi Food Safety Department has directed its officers not to inspect restaurants, eateries or other food premises without written approval from the Food Safety Commissioner (FSC). An order dated Dec 23 — issued following multiple representations from food business operators and members…
Pune: Senior politicians of the Shiv Sena on Friday intensified their demand for a larger share of seats in the alliance with BJP for the upcoming Pune Municipal Corporation elections, particularly in the Wadgaon Sheri assembly constituency.During a news conference held at the party’s contact office in Yerawada, Sena sub-city organiser Uddhav Galande said the…
Mumbai: Mumbai Congress president Varsha Gaikwad on Friday released a ‘chargesheet’ highlighting alleged irregularities in BMC works and corruption in public fund expenditure. She accused the BJP-led Mahayuti govt of allegedly looting public money through the appointed BMC administrator and neglecting essential civic services after the term of elected representatives ended in March 2022.Speaking to…
New Delhi: Delhi govt is expected to soon issue orders appointing 13 IAS officers as district magistrates (DMs) and 39 senior officers as sub-divisional magistrates (SDMs) across the capital’s newly notified administrative units, officials said. The appointments follow the recent notification regarding the reorganisation of Delhi into 13 districts and 39 sub-divisions, replacing the earlier…
Pune: A five-day technical glitch in Aadhaar-based online verification has thrown property registrations and rental agreements across Maharashtra into disarray, forcing thousands of applicants to either wait indefinitely or visit sub-registrar offices with two witnesses.The technical snag crippled the e-registration of first-sale flats from builders’ offices too, especially in Pune and Mumbai where biometric Aadhaar…
