Pune: The civic body claims that its appeal to stray dog feeders in the city to share details of feeding spots has received 125 responses in five days. On the flipside, several animal welfare workers in the city pointed out that Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) chequered history in stray management and lack of transparency about…
MUMBAI: Five members of a gang from Rajasthan’s Jalore district have been arrested for defrauding a Mumbai resident of Rs 25 lakh by selling him fake gold ornaments they claimed were discovered during excavation near a temple in Nashik, police said on Sunday.The gang member Babulal Bhalaram Waghela befriended the victim, Dinesh Mehta, a 51-year-old…
The Commission for Air Quality Management has issued directives to Delhi and NCR state governments on December 14 to immediately halt all outdoor physical sports activities. The move comes after concerns about schools continuing outdoor activities despite poor air quality, with the commission warning about serious health risks to children and implementing Stage IV restrictions…
Pune: The airport police registered a case under relevant provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act against a Kharadi-based software engineer (28) when he attempted to fly out from Lohegaon Airport with a trivial amount of marijuana around 8.30pm on Thursday.Senior inspector Govind Jadhav of the airport police told TOI, “The techie…
Thane: The Anti-Extortion Cell (ANC) of Thane crime branch arrested two men and seized 108.8 gm of mephedrone (MD) worth Rs 10.8 lakh, along with a country-made pistol and a live cartridge, during a late-night raid in the Kalyan (E) area.Based on a tip-off, the team conducted a raid in a residential complex, where Aaqib…
New Delhi: The semester examinations at Delhi University descended into chaos on Saturday after question papers for more than 35 subjects failed to reach centres on time, forcing hundreds of students to wait for up to four hours in uncertainty. The two-hour exams, scheduled to begin at 9.30am, were delayed till nearly noon at several…
Pune: Online fraudsters, posing as a manager and officials of a public sector bank, siphoned off Rs 2.6 lakh from the bank account of an Aundh-based woman (69) in March.The crooks sent her a remote access software link under the pretext of updating her KYC. The woman registered a complaint application to the Pune cyber…
Navi Mumbai: Residents of Uran township and its vicinity will have to brace for a two-day water cut on Tuesday and Friday each week with immediate effect after Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) enforced restrictions on water supply from Ransai dam to stretch dwindling reservoir levels until the next monsoon. Usually, residents face water cuts…
NEW DELHI: Videos on Sunday morning showed India Gate, Akshardham, Anand Vihar, and Delhi airport barely visible through a dense grey haze, as the city’s air quality plunged into the ‘severe’ category, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) soaring to 497.The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) invoked all measures under GRAP Stage IV across…
Pune: Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, Jaipur-Atrauli gharana’s stellar vocalist, brought the curtains down on the third day of Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav at Maharashtriya Mandal grounds in Mukundnagar on Friday.She recited raga Jog, a slow composition in the 10-beat Jhap taal and a sprightly tarana in the 16-beat Teen Taal, and raga Bageshree followed by Bhairavi for…
