Pune: A day after deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde‘s brother, Prakash, refuted the opposition’s allegations that he had links to the drugs manufacturing unit recently busted in Satara by Mumbai police, Shiv Sena (UBT) deputy leader Sushma Andhare on Thursday called Prakash’s claim a lie and sought an inquiry to probe his role in the…
Vasai: A 43-year-old woman and her 19-year-old son received burn injuries on Thursday aorund 6 pm after a gas cylinder blast inside their third-floor apartment in Virar (W) owing to a leakage. The incident occured in the A-wing of Golden Oak building. The mother-son duo were rushed to the hospital by the neighbours who were…
NEW DELHI: The national capital continued to reel under hazardous air conditions on Friday, with Anand Vihar and surrounding areas blanketed by a thick layer of toxic smog.The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has activated all measures under GRAP Stage-IV in Delhi-NCR to tackle the rising pollution. From Work-From-Home To Vehicle Ban- Delhi Rolls…
Pune: State Election Commissioner (SEC) Dinesh Waghmare has directed district administrations and police authorities to enforce stringent preventive measures to ensure peaceful polling and counting during the upcoming municipal council and nagar panchayat elections across the state on Dec 20 and Dec 21.Waghmare issued the directions after video conferences with district collectors, police commissioners, superintendents…
Mumbai: An 18-year-old college-goer and his female friend of the same age lost their lives after their scooter crashed into a stationary truck at Evershine Nagar in Malad on Wednesday night. Police have registered an FIR against the truck driver for obstructing traffic and parking dangerously, and are looking for the truck driver. This is…
New Delhi: Citing lapses in police investigation, a Delhi court has ordered the registration of an FIR for alleged extortion against the woman who had earlier accused businessman Samir Modi of rape. The court said the investigating agency could not deny a complainant his right to a fair probe. Additional chief judicial magistrate Vinod Joshi,…
Pune: A special MP/MLA court in Pune on Thursday allowed Satyaki Savarkar’s plea to submit two pen drives containing Rahul Gandhi’s speech as evidence in the ongoing defamation case against the Congress leader. Satyaki, the grandnephew of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, filed the defamation case over the alleged objectionable remarks made by the Congress…
Mumbai: Among adolescents and young adults, self-harm is increasingly becoming a language of pain—an expression of betrayal, distress and anxiety when words fall short. It is not always a wish to die, counsellors say, but an urgent attempt to feel heard, to release emotions that have nowhere else to go.Members of the Tata Institute of…
New Delhi: For over a decade, Ashutosh Pandit lived as invisibly as a ghost.After allegedly orchestrating a Rs 17-crore fraud against Indian Overseas Bank in Pune in 2013, the director of House of Laptops, a private company, vanished into the ether.By the time CBI took over the case from the economic offences wing of Mumbai…
Pune: The Narendra Jadhav Committee, constituted to review the three-language policy in Maharashtra, is likely to submit its final recommendations by Jan 4, 2026, following the conclusion of public consultations across the state.The committee was formed in the wake of criticism over a proposal to mandate Hindi as a third language under the National Education…
