Pune: A special MP/MLA court in the city on Thursday sought Rahul Gandhi‘s written response to an application by Satyaki Savarkar, who presented a couple of pen drives containing the Congress politician’s alleged defamatory speech against Hindutva icon Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, seeking that they be played in open court.Rahul Gandhi’s lawyer, Milind Pawar, orally objected…
Prada Kolhapuris to sell for ’84k/pair MUMBAI/KOLHAPUR: The ordinary Indian’s chappal is set to walk the high street of global fashion as Italian luxury brand Prada signed an MoU Thursday to launch a limited-edition collection of Kolhapuri Chappal – about 2,000 pairs – made in Maharashtra and Karnataka, report Asmita Dey and Abhijeet Patil. The…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Rohini court on Thursday denied transit anticipatory bail to Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, co-owners of the ‘Birch by Romeo Lane’ nightclub in Goa, noting that the “nature of offence, prima facie, is grave and serious in nature where 25 people have lost their lives.” The court’s decision comes in connection with…
Pune: It took hundreds of Punawale residents several years of protests, petitions and rallies against a proposed garbage depot on a green patch in their area. Finally, the project was officially cancelled by PCMC in 2025. Their unflinching agitation stands testament to the power of citizens’ voices, raised in unison.Not so far away, residents and…
Nagpur: Maharashtra has witnessed 781 farmer suicides in first nine months of 2025 due to loans, crop failure, and excessive rainfall, informed state relief and rehabilitation department minister Makarand Jadhav (Patil) through a written reply in the legislative council on Thursday. In Vidarbha’s Nagpur division, 296 farmers have died by suicide and in Marathwada, 212.According…
Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra — co-owners of the fire-ravaged ‘Birch by Romeo Lane’ nightclub in Goa — were picked up by Thai police from Hotel Indigo in Patong, NEW DELHI: Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra — co-owners of the fire-ravaged ‘Birch by Romeo Lane’ nightclub in Goa — were picked up by Thai police from Hotel…
Pune: Can rivers generate wealth? A recent study by TV Ramachandra, Paras Negi and Tulika Mondal from the energy and wetlands research group at the Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, estimated that the Mula–Mutha river catchment generates ecosystem services worth Rs5,000 crore annually. The study was conducted in June…
Mumbai: Strongly opposing the anticipatory bail plea of a 61-year-old visiting professor from Wardha, who has been accused of sexual misconduct and outraging the modesty of 10 female students during a national-level conference at St Xavier’s College in south Mumbai in Nov, police cited the religious difference between the accused and the complainants and stated…
New Delhi: Noting that the “nature of offence, prima facie, is grave and serious in nature where 25 people have lost their lives”, a court on Thursday denied transit anticipatory bail to Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra in connection with the Dec 6 fire at their nightclub in Goa, Birch by Romeo Lane. Additional sessions judge…
Pune: It took five long days and enquiries in multiple cities for US resident Medhaa Nadgir to get her luggage returned to her, after it went missing amid the ongoing IndiGo crisis. Nadgir had checked in her two bags into a flight to Bengaluru on Dec 4, which was then cancelled. For a few days,…
