New Delhi: In the wake of football icon Lionel Messi’s visit for the ‘Lionel Messi GOAT India Tour – Delhi Leg’ at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Dec 15, traffic snarls brought parts of central Delhi to a standstill, with congestion lingering even after the event ended around 5pm.Commuters approaching ITO from the stadium side faced…
Pune: Citizens groups have urged the state’s expert committee on deemed forests to declare the entire Vetal hill complex as forest land, citing Supreme Court directives, official forest department records and multiple biodiversity studies.In a detailed representation to senior forest officials, the group, under the banner of Vetal Tekdi Bachav Kruti Samiti (VTBKS), highlighted increasing…
Mumbai: Malad police arrested five men for stealing MTNL cables. Senior inspector Dushyant Chavan was passing by a Charkop road when he noticed about 25 people on the footpath, behind a tempo. He went over to enquire. The men started to flee, prompting police to chase and nab them. Inside the tempo, police found 80-90…
New Delhi: A 32-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly committed four mobile snatchings in various areas of Shahdara within 40 minutes.The accused, identified as Musab alias Mustaq, has previous involvement in over 56 cases and was released from jail last July. He told the cops that he committed several snatchings in the east and…
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said Mahayuti partners BJP and Shiv Sena will contest together in most municipal corporation elections on Jan 15. This includes Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan Dombivli. However, in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, the BJP and Shiv Sena will have friendly fights with the NCP.Speculations about all three Mahayuti partners…
Mira-Bhayander: Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police busted a drugs manufacturing factory operating under the guise of a poultry shed in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu on Sunday and arrested its owner. They found 10kg of mephedrone and equipment. The owner, Anil Sihag, is the 11th suspect to be arrested in this inter-state drugs racket that was exposed after a…
New Delhi: Delhi govt has drawn up plans to develop two city forests in the southwest and northwest of the city at Kharkhari Jatmal and Mukhmelpur, official documents have shown. Tenders worth Rs 2.76 crore for the two projects have been invited by the Irrigation and Flood Control (IFC) department and are open to contractors…
Pune: Against the backdrop of recent reports of leopard sightings in various areas, an IT firm based in the city has now issued an advisory to its employees in Hinjewadi concerning potential wildlife encounters. IT firm Cognizant issued a general advisory to its employees as a precaution, although there have been no leopard sightings in…
Vasai: The MBVV crime branch unit 4 has arrested gangster Subhash Singh Thakur in connection with a Feb 2022 Virar builder murder case. Thakur was taken into , on a production warrant, from the Fattehgarh jail in Uttar Pradesh on December 15, on the Thane MCOCA court order regarding the Feb 2022 murder of Samay…
New Delhi: Delhi govt has decided to digitise its entire agricultural framework, chief minister Rekha Gupta said on Saturday.Under ‘Special Assistance to the States for Capital Investment’, a Union govt scheme, a digital identity of all farmers and a geo-mapped record of agricultural land will be created in the national capital, enabling it to receive…
