Pune: The Warje Malwadi police arrested three painting workers in connection with the burglary of Rs20 lakh and gold jewellery collectively worth Rs32.50 lakh from the house of a 65-year-old resident of Warje between Sept and Oct this year. The victim owns a building at Shivane. He has given four flats on rent and used…
MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Friday, in an interim order, granted relief to actor Shilpa Shetty in her plea to restrain several known and unknown social media platforms, artificial intelligence (AI)-linked entities, and others, including all unknown persons, from posting manipulated or morphed images and videos of her, alleging violation of her “personality rights.”The HC…
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s air quality worsened again on Saturday after a brief improvement earlier in the week, with several parts of the city recording pollution levels in the ‘very poor’ and ‘severe’ categories. Residents across the capital woke up to thick smog, which reduced visibility in many areas. According to data from the Central Pollution…
Pune: India’s food and quick commerce platforms are set for major strain on Dec 31 as delivery workers from Swiggy, Zomato, Zepto, and Blinkit plan a nationwide strike. The call came a day after a Christmas Day walkout that caused widespread disruptions.Unions leading the action, including the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union (TGPWU) and…
Mumbai: A sessions court convicted and sentenced a 38-year-old mother to 10 years imprisonment for trafficking her 17-year-old daughter for the purpose of sex work, noting that her actions warranted no leniency. She was also charged with seven-year terms for violations of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and three years under the Juvenile Justice Act….
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has quashed a 20-year-old official order to compulsorily retire a CISF officer, now 72, over sexual harassment, ruling that the allegations made in 1998 by a woman constable “reek of vengeance rather than genuine harassment”. HC also found that even after being cleared three times, senior officers constituted yet…
Pune: Residents are likely to experience a gradual rise in minimum temperatures as the city heads into the New Year, after a run of single-digit chilly mornings through Dec. The minimum temperatures are expected to climb by nearly two degrees over the next few days, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD). Its forecast for Pune…
Mumbai: Police in the last one week arrested nine people, including three women, and seized heroin worth Rs 33.8 crore. On Dec 16, cops arrested two persons and seized heroin worth Rs 1.3 crore. During investigation, police arrested more people and seized more drugs. One of the arrested women was caught from Ajmer in Rajasthan….
NEW DELHI: As the wind speed dropped, the city’s air quality deteriorated sharply on Friday, turning very poor from poor a day earlier. The 24-hour average air quality index at 4pm was 332 compared to 234 on Thursday.AQI, on a scale of 0 to 500, was 320 at 11am compared to 218 at the same…
Mumbai: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has mandated stricter labelling rules for solvent manufacturers in response to the contaminated cough syrup tragedies that killed at least 25 children in Madhya Pradesh in Oct. The new guidelines, issued to state FDAs are to prevent industrial chemicals from entering the medicinal supply chain.The earlier deaths…
