PUNE: Expressing disappointment over politicians linking the flow of funds with votes, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday said that votes should be sought based on work and not by promising funds.Speaking to reporters at his hometown Baramati, Pawar said, “In the ongoing civic polls, I came across some campaign speeches where politicians linked…
MUMBAI: Despite the Mumbai police cyber awareness drives particularly digital arrest, senior citizens continue to fall prey to them. A senior couple from Mulund are the latest victims of a digital fraud case. The cyber fraudsters impersonated as officials from the city crime branch, threatened her to arrest her in a fabricated money-laundering case where…
NEW DELHI: Shah Rukh Khan’s production company, Red Chillies Entertainment, has opposed IRS officer Sameer Wankhede’s plea in the Delhi High Court seeking to remove the series The Ba***ds of Bollywood from various online platforms. On Wednesday, the company argued that the show is a work of satire and accused Wankhede of forum shopping by…
Pune: PMRDA aims to finalise a comprehensive economic growth plan for the region within three to four months. The plan aims to leverage Pune’s existing strengths in the industrial and technological sectors to drive rapid growth, Yogesh Mhase, commissioner, Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) said. “PMRDA has sought applications from private entities, semi-government institutions,…
MUMBAI: “I’m not gonna cough at this point, my lungs have adapted, it’s fine. Oh, you think this is the outside? No, this is what’s happening inside you,” actor and stand-up star Vir Das said in an Instagram video, commenting on Mumbai’s deteriorating air quality. The clip, filmed in his living room, featured a smoke…
NEW DELHI: Ankit, a member of Bhau gang, arrested after a brief encounter with the Anti-Narcotics Cell of Delhi Police in Dwarka on Thursday.A day earlier, in Patel Nagar, the police engaged in an “intense” exchange of fire with a man identified as Mehtab, who was reportedly on the run in connection with a murder…
Pune: A 55-year-old private tuition teacher from Yerawada lost Rs 27.50 lakh in a digital fraud, which occurred in April this year. The crooks contacted her by posing as officials from the Telecom department and claimed that her bank account was misused for money laundering. After preliminary investigations, a case was registered with the Yerawada…
2 held for running sex determination centre at cattle shed in Jalna JALNA: Police in Maharashtra’s Jalna district have dismantled an illegal foetal sex determination and abortion racket operating from a cattle shed, leading to the arrest of two individuals on Wednesday. The operation was uncovered during a raid by police and health officials at…
NEW DELHI: After a Delhi-based environmentalist, Bharati Chaturvedi, alleged that she was physically assaulted by an Uber driver on Wednesday, Uber removed the driver from the app.In her email to Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golcha, she recounted that while travelling to her doctor’s clinic in Sarvodaya Enclave, the driver became “inexplicably agitated” after she asked…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is likely to publish within a week a red zone map, demarcating areas where construction is prohibited around the ordnance depot on Dehu Road and the magazine depot in Dighi. This will offer a long-pending clarity to nearly 4,000 property owners near these defence establishments.The map was sent…
