Leopard sighted in Pune’s posh area, residents on high alert | Pune News

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…

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Mumbai: Man arrested for ‘raping’ minor girls after spiking their soft drinks; probe reveals 8–10 victims | Mumbai News

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…

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‘Kejriwal govt didn’t do anything’: Bearing brunt of AAP’s wrongdoings, says Parvesh Verma; Delhi AQI in ‘severe’ | Delhi News

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…

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Panel to clear encroachments from Mumbai’s heritage sites | Mumbai News

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…

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Delhi Pollution: ‘This is how we did it’ China embassy has advice for Delhi pollution; ultra-strict vehicle norms, public transport push key | Delhi News

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….

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