Mumbai: Western Railway (WR) on Tuesday commissioned a 60m x 10m elevated deck over platforms six and seven at Vasai Road station, aimed at easing congestion and improving passenger circulation. The facility executed by Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation, includes 3m-wide staircases and has been opened for public use. The elevated deck will enable smoother movement…
New Delhi: Delhi govt is working on a policy to facilitate the removal of vilayati kikar, an invasive tree species, from areas where proposed development projects have been held up due to regulatory constraints. To this end, it plans to remove kikar from the list of tree species that require prior permission for felling from…
Pune: PMC-run Kamala Nehru Hospital (KNH) has received a major operational boost as the civic body has recruited 17 new specialist doctors, 50 nurses, and 60 sanitation workers to support the addition of 100 new beds to the facility.The expansion aligns with directives from the National Medical Commission (NMC), which mandated the Pune Municipal Corporation…
MUMBAI: The Bandra magistrate court was evacuated on Thursday morning and thoroughly checked after police received a bomb threat via email. Soon after the threat was reported, teams from the Nirmal Nagar police station and the bomb detection and disposal squad rushed to the court premises and conducted a search. No suspicious object was found…
Man arrested for series of house burglaries in Dwarka NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old man allegedly involved in a series of house burglaries across Dwarka district was arrested.The case came to light when a complaint was filed by a woman from Uttam Nagar on Dec 12, who reported that gold and silver jewellery was stolen from…
Pune: District collector and district disaster management authority chairman Jitendra Dudi has directed all local authorities, including Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporations, to submit action-taken reports by Dec-end on bridges, culverts and other public structures found unsafe or in need of repairs. The move comes six months after the Kundmala bridge collapse over the…
Andheri-E crumbles as complaints gounheard since 2022 leadership vacuum MUMBAI: K East ward, made of the eastern parts of the Vile Parle, Andheri and Jogeshwari belt, stands today as one of Mumbai’s most blighted administrative zones, a place where civic dysfunction has spiralled so wildly out of control that it feels like a genie long…
New Delhi: The President’s Bodyguards (PSG) arrive at Raisina Hill on a smoggy winter morning, in New Delhi. New Delhi on December 18, 2025, is experiencing a day with partly cloudy skies and comfortable temperatures, reaching a high of 24.8°C and dropping to 15.6°C by night. Despite the pleasant weather, yesterday’s severe air quality, marked…
Pune: The Indian Army has granted a Rs500 crore contract for manufacturing and supply of advanced drones to Pune-based defence public sector undertaking Munitions India Limited (MIL). The move is a significant boost to the nation’s indigenous defence manufacturing capabilities.MIL falls under the ministry of defence and has seven ordnance factories across the country.Sources said…
MUMBAI: The Bandra magistrate court was evacuated Thursday morning and thoroughly checked after the police received a bomb threat via email. Soon after the threat was received, teams from the Nirmal Nagar police station and the bomb detection and disposal squad rushed to the court premises and carried out a search. No suspicious object was…
