Pune: Representatives of National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), Pune chapter, recently met district collector Jitendra Dudi to address the shortage of commercial LPG cylinders. This comes even after a recent govt order permitted partial allocation to sectors such as hotels and restaurants.The meeting followed a state govt communication issued in line with directions from…
Mumbai: A new Mumbai Police SUV caught fire at Sakinaka in Andheri West on Thursday afternoon after smoke suddenly started emanating from the bonnet, police said. The exact cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained. No one was injured, and police registered an accidental fire case.According to Sakinaka police, the vehicle was being…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has upheld the acquittal of a man accused of kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old girl, holding that a horoscope and a vaccination card — relied on to claim the survivor was a minor — cannot be treated as proof of age.A bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Ravinder Dudeja…
Pune: While BJP MLAs and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) administration are lobbying for an additional 100 MLD (million liters per day) water allocation from Pavana dam, sources in the civic body’s water supply department said the city lacks the infrastructure to draw extra water.Even if the state grants immediate approval, officials said it will…
MUMBAI: A 16-year-old girl narrowly escaped after her 21-year-old boyfriend attempted to kill her with a sickle and molested her outside her college in Mulund after she stopped speaking to him. Within 24 hours, police arrested the accused identified as Ashish Bansode, a resident of Badlapur under the Pocso Act. According to police, Bansode approached…
NEW DELHI: Ridership on buses operated by Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and the cluster scheme, which are among the cheapest modes of commute in the city, has declined sharply since 2019-20, though the overall fleet has expanded, according to data from Economic Survey 2025-26.In 2019-20, DTC and cluster buses together carried over 51 lakh passengers…
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation, struggling to meet its revenue target, is yet to receive long-pending dues of Rs 3,045 crore from state govt, revealed a Right to Information (RTI) query filed earlier this month by a citizens’ group, which has now urged the civic body to intensify efforts to recover the outstanding amount.As per…
Priest killed in BEST e-bus crash on SCLR (AI image used for representational purpose only) MUMBAI: A 55-year-old priest on a scooter lost his life in a mishap involving an electric BEST bus on the Santacruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) in Kurla on Thursday afternoon.The deceased, identified as Trivikram Shripad Acharya, was a resident of Ganesh…
New Delhi: Delhi’s first International Film Festival (IFFD) opened with a quiet but deliberate assertion— Delhi will chart its own path on the global cinema map rather than compete with established film hubs like Mumbai. That distinction, filmmaker and IFFD director Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra stressed, is precisely the point.As thousands of cinephiles streamed into…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad police on Tuesday and Wednesday raided three places where gas from domestic LPG cylinders was transferred into small domestic and commercial cylinders.Separate complaints under sections 287, 288 (negligent conduct with respect to fire, combustible or explosive matter) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the relevant sections of the Essential Commodities…
