Mumbai: Male Royal Bengal tiger Shakti at Byculla’s Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and Zoo, who had been brought along with female Royal Bengal Tiger Karishma from the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar zoo on Feb 12, 2020, died last week aged 9.6 years, said zoo officials.Dr Sanjay Tripathi, director of the facility, called the Royal Bengal tiger…
New Delhi: National Green Tribunal has disposed of an application over the alleged manufacturing of banned single use plastic (SUP) items by units operating in Bawana and Narela industrial areas.The tribunal bench, headed by chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, earlier sought a reply from Delhi Pollution Control Committee on the plea. DPCC had submitted that a…
Pune: A 54-year-old operational director of a multinational company from Pimpri Chinchwad lost Rs21.26 lakh to cyber crooks in an online share trading fraud between July and Aug this year. The victim filed a complaint application with the cyber police recently. After preliminary investigations, a case was registered with the Sant Tukaramnagar police on Monday.An…
New Delhi: Designed to serve as a high-speed link from DND Flyway to Sohna and to the upcoming Noida International Airport in Jewar, a NH-148A corridor has entered its final phase. Officials said the project was expected to be completed in the next four months. “It will provide a crucial alternative to overloaded national routes…
Pune: As many as 18,891 farmers across Pune district will soon receive compensation as the agriculture department has completed its assessment of the crops damaged by unseasonal rainfall in Oct, officials said.According to the district agriculture office, the final panchanama report reveals that standing crops on 7,436 hectares were affected by the prolonged spell of…
Mumbai: As all top ministers in the Mahayuti govt are busy campaigning for local body polls, there was no state cabinet meeting on Tuesday. This was supposed to be the first cabinet meeting after the rumblings surfaced between Mahayuti partners Shiv Sena and BJP last week over poaching of former corporators and functionaries, especially in…
New Delhi: A Dubai-based individual, believed to be the mastermind of one of India’s largest cocaine rings, Pawan Thakur, will be deported to India soon. Sources said that Thakur was detained in Dubai last week.Thakur is allegedly behind the smuggling of a massive 82kg cocaine consignment, which was intercepted and seized in Delhi in Nov…
Pune: The civic administration will take up corrections in the voters’ list even as Pune Municipal Corporation received 358 fresh objections on Tuesday. A total of 777 objections have been received so far on ward-wise voters’ lists, with a majority pertaining to abrupt shifting of voters’ names to other wards.Officials from PMC’s election department said…
Royal Bengal tiger ‘Shakti’ at Byculla Zoo. (PTI File Photo) MUMBAI: The Royal Bengal Tiger Shakti (male)at Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan & Zoo, Byculla, that had been brought along with another Royal Bengal Tiger Karishma (female) from Siddharth Garden & Zoo, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on February 12, 2020, under an animal exchange programme has died…
New Delhi: The iconic Red Fort will remain closed to the public from Dec 5 to 14 to facilitate preparations for a major UNESCO event, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) announced on Friday.In a fresh order, the ASI partially modified its earlier notification issued on Nov 19, which proposed closing the monument from Dec…
