Muzammil claims Shaheen is his wife, not girlfriend NEW DELHI: Muzammil Ahmad Ganaie, who has been arrested in the Delhi car blast case, has told agencies that coaccused Shaheen Shahid is his wife and not girlfriend as believed earlier.Sources told TOI that Muzammil allegedly claimed they were a couple and had their ‘nikah’ performed at…
Pune: The search for leopards spotted in the airport and Aundh continued on Wednesday, while the forest department authorities reported no visual confirmation of their presence throughout the day.Teams on the ground are maintaining caution and persistence, hoping to trace the elusive big cat(s). According to the Pune forest division, the surveillance strategy implemented in…
Mumbai: The Union cabinet has approved the construction of third and fourth railway lines between Badlapur and Karjat, removing one of the most crippling bottlenecks on Central Railway’s (CR) suburban corridor. The section currently runs on just two tracks, forcing both suburban locals and long-distance trains onto the same pair of lines—a situation that routinely…
New Delhi: When we talk about the Indian Constitution, the first name that comes to mind is of B R Ambedkar. However, 15 remarkable women — from Hansa Jivraj Mehta, who pushed for adopting the phrase “all human beings” in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to Dakshayani Velayudhan, the only Dalit woman in the…
Pune: A new generation of leopards in the state are rewriting the rules of human–wildlife interaction. Forest officials in the Junnar landscape now acknowledge a striking reality: most leopards found in this region and neighbouring districts are not “forest cats” anymore. They are born, raised, and fully adapted to life in sugar cane fields and…
Mumbai: Buried in this year’s MBBS cutoff table is a shocking number: 118. That’s the NEET score of a student who has entered a private medical college under the “meritorious” state quota. Meanwhile, hundreds of students with scores close to 400 remained without a seat as the admissions closed in Maharashtra.The final admission chart showed…
New Delhi: Noting a distressing pattern of negligence and absence of ethical handling in shifting deer from Delhi’s Deer Park to Rajasthan in overcrowded trucks, Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed any further translocation. It also directed the central-empowered committee (CEC) to carry out a comprehensive study of conditions prevailing at the park and also at…
Pune: The civic body has begun installing iron railings along a 1.2-km stretch of the busy East Street. The initiative is part of the preparations for the Pune Grand Cycle Tour 2026, a major international competition scheduled from Jan 19 to 24 next year. The race will cover 436 km, with a critical segment passing…
Mumbai: Paving the way for trial to commence against five accused allegedly involved in the attempted murder of actor Salman Khan, a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court this month framed 15 separate charges against them. On April 14, 2024, a motorcyclist and a pillion rider discharged several rounds at the balcony…
New Delhi: A 38-year-old woman, the daughter-in-law of an industrialist, allegedly died by suicide at home in southwest Delhi’s Vasant Vihar on Tuesday. Police have initiated an inquest to probe the circumstances leading to the death.No suicide note was found, but police said it had seized a diary in which the woman, a housewife, wrote…
