NEW DELHI: Delhi Police arrested a man for allegedly cheating people by offering fake jobs in airlines.According to the police, a complaint was received from Ritu Singh, who alleged that she was duped by unknown persons on the pretext of providing a job in an airline. She stated that she received an email followed by…
PUNE: Pune reported yet another leopard sighting, this time in Keshavnagar, during the night between Wednesday and Thursday, triggering heightened alert among residents and prompting visits by forest officials. CCTV footage from housing societies confirmed the animal’s movement between two adjacent residential complexes in the area. The leopard was first spotted around 2:27 am at…
The Eifman Ballet of St Petersburg made its India debut with a performance of “Anna Karenina” at the NCPA. The Eifman Ballet of St Petersburg had a presentation of Anna Karenina at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) recently, marking the company’s first-ever performances in India. Choreographed by Boris Eifman, the ballet is…
NEW DELHI: Two months after a 65-year-old woman was found strangled and robbed at her Rohini home, Delhi Police have arrested her tenant, who had allegedly fled across multiple states to evade arrest. Police said the accused, identified as Himanshu Yadav, worked as a salesman and was under severe financial stress due to long-pending rent…
Pune: A two-year-old boy from Satara was successfully treated in the city and discharged after accidentally ingesting acetic acid that caused severe burns to his mouth, food pipe, chest, and groin last month. The toddler mistook the acid for drinking water because it was stored in a clear plastic bottle, said his parents. After a…
Man arrested for ‘raping’ minor girls after spiking their soft drinks (Representative image) MUMBAI: Mumbai police arrested a 45-year-old man for allegedly drugging and raping multiple minor girls, filming the assaults, and later blackmailing them with the videos. The accused, Mahesh Ramesh Pawar, was apprehended from Virar, a distant Mumbai suburb, within six hours of…
NEW DELHI: Delhi minister Parvesh Verma on Thursday acknowledged that toxic air has become a serious menace for the national capital, while squarely blaming former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for what he described as years of inaction on pollution control.“We accept that toxic air is a big menace,” Verma…
Pune: The traffic police have stopped towing vehicles in no-parking zones after the contract with a company assigned by the govt to assist traffic department lapsed on Nov 29.This has an impact on traffic flow as illegally parked vehicles are causing traffic jams on prime roads, especially Pune-Satara Road, FC Road, JM Road, the congested…
August Kranti Maidan (File Photo) MUMBAI: With a focus on protecting iconic heritage sites in Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the Maharashtra cabinet on Tuesday cleared the formation of a state-level committee to make state-protected monuments encroachment-free and preserve their historical character.Headed by the minister for cultural affairs, the committee will include ministers from…
NEW DELHI: How did Beijing go from being the ‘smog capital of the world’ to footnotes in research papers on tackling air pollution? China has lessons for India.In a series of posts on X, spokesperson of the Chinese embassy in India, Yu Jing laid out the path that Beijing followed to drastically improve air quality….
