New Delhi: Public Works Department (PWD) has earmarked more than Rs 2 crore in the 2025–26 financial year to strengthen the upkeep of roads, subways and foot overbridges (FOBs) in south and south-east Delhi. The project will be executed through the South-Eastern Roads (SER) division and is aimed at improving cleanliness, safety and overall maintenance…
Pune: Memories of Ustad Zakir Hussain ebbed and flowed at two musical fests in the city. At the first one in Ganesh Kala Krida Manch, Hindustani vocalist Kaushiki Chakraborty (45) told the audience, “Teach your kids that he is here and will be here and he will keep showing us the way forward.” The tabla…
New Delhi: A 36-year-old man who jumped parole four years ago was arrested on Monday by Delhi Police’s Crime Branch. The man, identified as Rohit Balara from Neb Sarai, was convicted in 2019 for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old boy in 2012 and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. He was granted…
Pune: Despite the Pune Municipal Corporation’s oft-repeated claims of improving the Katraj-Kondhwa Road, it remains an accident-prone thoroughfare.On Monday morning, a 35-year-old teacher driving on the wrong side of the road died after her scooter skidded and she came under the wheels of a truck on this road.While civic officials claim they are prioritising road…
Mumbai: The BMC has found the explanation provided by a H-West ward engineer regarding the alleged false certification that the width of a road in Bandra West was greater than the actual site condition of the road, to be unsatisfactory and without justification. According to a complaint, false certification was allegedly carried out to benefit…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Tuesday claimed to have made a massive breakthrough in the fight against high-stakes cybercrime, revealing the dismantling of an international digital fraud and extortion syndicate. In a multi-state operation culminating in arrests across three major cities, police apprehended the mastermind and nine associates, closing the book on frauds amounting to…
Pune: A 35-year-old teacher died after her scooter skidded and she came under the rear wheel of a truck driven close to her two-wheeler around 7.30am on Monday on the Katraj-Kondhwa road.Local residents said the road was in a bad condition, and traffic movement on the stretch had been rerouted in the last few days….
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has directed a man to pay interim maintenance of Rs 50,000 per month individually to his two minor daughters and not collectively.Justice Manjusha Deshpande on Friday said Family Court’s (FC) Aug 2023 order to pay Rs 50,000 each to his wife and both the daughters will have to be interpreted…
Credits: Instagram (Screengrab) NEW DELHI: Delhi Police have suspended a traffic head constable after a video showing him scuffling with a cab driver near the New Delhi Railway Station went viral on social media.According to sources, the policeman was posted with the Central Range of the Delhi Traffic Police. In the video, he is seen…
Pune: With chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in the city on Monday to attend various events, the roadblocks imposed to facilitate smooth passage of his convoy caused massive traffic chaos on the route, resulting in a cascading effect across areas. “I travel from Baner to Fergusson College (FC) Road daily for work and it takes me…
