New Delhi: The city’s skyline is set for a lift this weekend as tethered hot air balloons begin offering a brief aerial escape to Delhiites over the Yamuna floodplain. On Tuesday morning, Delhi Development Authority completed its final trial run at Baansera and the city’s first such service will be available from Saturday.Lieutenant governor VK…
Pune: A special court under POCSO Act in the city has convicted and sentenced a 24-year-old man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment for repeatedly raping a 14-year-old girl between Feb 13 and Feb 26, 2021, in Chandannagar area. According to the case put up by the prosecution, the accused (a college student, aged 22 years…
Mumbai: Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) has proposed a 3km network of underground pedestrian tunnels to strengthen first- and last-mile connectivity around two key stations of the fully underground Metro line 3—Science Centre (Worli) and BKC. A recently issued request for proposals outlines three major sub-surface corridors designed to link the Metro with high-footfall destinations,…
New Delhi: In a major push to strengthen Delhi’s primary healthcare system, chief minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday inaugurated over 70 new Ayushman Arogya Mandirs (AAMs) across the city, bringing the total number of operational centres to 238. The launch marks one of the largest single-day expansions of neighbourhood-level health facilities in the city. Gupta…
PUNE: A general insurance company and a truck owner have been directed to pay Rs 10.9 crore compensation to the kin of a Mumbai businessman who died in multi-vehicle crash on Pune-Mumbai expressway on Jan 9, 2012.A motor accident claims tribunal in Pune ordered the compensation to be paid with 7.5% per annum interest from…
Thane: Thane city, a key junction linking Mumbai with the rest of Maharashtra and Gujarat, is facing unprecedented traffic congestion due to a sharp mismatch between vehicle numbers and available infrastructure, police officials revealed on Tuesday. A review by the city’s traffic police shows Thane, home to 1.8 million residents, now has over 1.65 million…
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has issued a second show-cause notice to an NGO preparing mid-day meals for primary schools in the central and south zones after fresh violations were detected during an inspection last week. At present, 15 NGOs operate 18 centralised kitchens to serve food to around 1,500 MCD schools under…
Pune: Fresh pugmarks were found inside a nullah in Aundh’s Sindh Society on Monday evening, leading the forest department to expand its monitoring as it continued tracking the leopard that had wandered into the heart of the city on Sunday. Now, the search has been widened across the drainage channel and adjoining hill terrain. A…
Mumbai: The Vakola police arrested five people, including a couple, for allegedly kidnapping a five-year-old girl from Santacruz East and selling her in Panvel for Rs 1.80 lakh. The accused include the girl’s maternal uncle and aunt, as well as an auto-rickshaw driver and two others.On Saturday at 12.30 pm a woman approached the police…
New Delhi: When 11-year-old Aman (name changed) from Sultanpur first reached Safdarjung Hospital last year, he was fighting odds stacked sharply against him. Born with bilateral hypodysplastic kidneys, a rare condition that leaves both kidneys severely underdeveloped, he had slipped into end-stage renal failure and needed to be revived after a cardiac arrest. Last week,…
