New Delhi: Two men allegedly set a resident’s car on fire in southwest Delhi’s Safdarjung Enclave last Wednesday.The 34-year-old man told the police that he left his car near his house in Humayunpur village around 8:15 pm. He discovered it was on fire by 1:30 am, when he made a PCR call. He claimed that…
Mumbai: Alarmed by the steady decline and closure of Marathi-medium schools in the city, a collective of educationists, teachers and activists working under the banner of the Marathi Abhyas Kendra, a city-based organisation focused on Marathi language and education, has announced a march to the BMC headquarters on Dec 18. Addressing a conference in Dadar,…
New Delhi: Traffic jams in Delhi are hardly unusual, but few disruptions frustrate commuters as much as those triggered by foreign dignitary visits to Rajghat. For years, these visits have meant sudden barricades, long detours and hours spent inching through gridlocked roads around ITO and adjoining corridors, with one notable exception recently, during Russian President…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch, during a recent operation, arrested five men with criminal records and confiscated seven country-made pistols.The arrests were carried out on Friday by the anti-gunda squad, led by assistant police inspector Harish Mane, across Wakad, Chikhali and Alandi areas. Mane said that the firearms had been smuggled into Pimpri Chinchwad…
Nagpur: Senior leaders of BJP and Sena, including CM Devendra Fadnavis and deputy CM Eknath Shinde, visited RSS Smruti Mandir, the memorials dedicated to the outfit’s founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar and its second sarsanghchalak M S Golwalkar, in Nagpur’s Reshimbagh on Sunday, the concluding day of the winter session of the state legislature. NCP leaders…
Pune: A 28-year-old Chembur resident recently suffered a severe injury to her left eye, which necessitated an emergency surgery, after three men on a two-wheeler chased down the car she was in, hurled stones at it and smashed its windows after it allegedly ran over a foot of one of them near an underpass on…
Navi Mumbai: Keeping in view future air traffic growth and operational requirements at Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), the City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) has invited bids for the appointment of a consultant to conduct a comprehensive technical and commercial feasibility study for the development of a third parallel runway.The duration of the consultancy…
New Delhi: In a breakthrough that could reshape access to life-saving stroke care, AIIMS New Delhi led India’s first successful clinical trial of an indigenously tested advanced stroke device. This trial demonstrated that high-quality, effective and affordable treatment can be delivered within the country.The Gravity Stent-Retriever System for Reperfusion ofLarge Vessel OcclusionStrokeTrial (GRASSROOT), with AIIMS…
Pune: The “smart” airport leopard dodged dogged Air Force personnel for over six months. It accessed less-frequented parts of the base, including underground tunnels providing logistical connectivity across the airfield. The big cat used these dimly lit, partially open structures as its hideouts.The Air Force Station (AFS) Lohegaon on Satuday introduced a series of strengthened…
Kalyan: Police have arrested a newly hired Rapido bike taxi driver, aged 19, for allegedly molesting and attempting to rob a 26-year-old female passenger on a deserted stretch in Kalyan on Saturday evening. Mahatma Phule police station’s senior inspector Baliramsingh Pardeshi said, “We have also recovered a knife from the accused, who has been identified…
