Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to probe why there is no GPS system in 318 garbage-carrying vehicles, hired from private contractors, which makes it difficult to track them for the distance covered every day. The move came after people complained that many waste disposal trucks and vans are dumping trash openly at…
Mumbai: About 25 lakh Indians living with HIV have partners who could have been protected from infection by nearly 100% with a twice-yearly lenacapavir PrEP injection, priced at about $40 per person per year. However, this remains a distant dream as the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) refused to waive local trials when one…
Mumbai: Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) on Friday launched exclusive discounted monthly passes on its MetroConnect3 mobile application, becoming the first Metro in the country to offer a pass facility entirely through a mobile app.Commuters on Metro Line 3 can avail themselves of the following trip-based discounts: 15% discount on 60-trip passes and 10% discount…
Mumbai: More than 36 hours after a 65-year-old woman, Shehnaz Anees Kazi, was found bludgeoned to death in her Ghatkopar (W) flat, police on Friday arrested the wife of her stepson for allegedly committing the crime over a long-standing property dispute. Ghatkopar police said they tracked down and identified Mumtaz Irfan Khan (51) based on…
Mumbai: A 28-year-old Uttar Pradesh man employed in a poultry shop in Andheri (East) was found dead with a head injury in an open plot on Marol-Sahar pipeline on Wednesday. The Andheri police solved the murder within eight hours and arrested two persons, including the victim’s cousin, by analysing 15 phone calls in victim Mohit…
NEW DELHI: Anxiety, screen addiction, cyberbullying and relentless academic pressure are taking a heavy toll on children and teenagers, especially in big cities like Delhi. Experts warn that emotional distress among the young is rising sharply — and adults are missing the signs.Dr Rajesh Sagar, professor of Psychiatry at AIIMS, said the country must urgently…
MUMBAI: Three minors have been detained by the Bangur Nagar Police for a series of motorcycle thefts in the western suburbs. They told investigators that none of the stolen bikes were sold and they only committed crimes for taking joyrides.The latest incident was reported at Malad West on the night of Nov 24 when a…
New Delhi: Two men died after being hit by a car in west Delhi’s Moti Nagar on Wednesday evening. Police are trying to identify the driver who fled, leaving behind the mangled Tata Tiago bearing a Haryana number plate. The deceased have been identified as 48-year-old Munni Raj, who used to paint and whitewash walls…
Pune: A 27-year-old man from Khed taluka was shot dead by his friend-turned-foe on Thursday morning when he was going to Khed court with his wife.The Pune Rural police identified the deceased as Ketan Karle. The police said the murder was the result of a dispute between the victim and the accused. They were friends…
Mumbai: Bombay high court has dismissed appeals of the occupants of eight structures on a housing society’s land abutting Kandivli West railway station.“These appellants before me are nothing but illegal hawkers and land grabbers which grab any vacant spaces outside railway stations, which are high density footfall areas for hawking their business. This menace has…
