Pune: PMRDA has missed its extended deadline to prepare draft plans for 15 town planning (TP) schemes along the 128-km inner ring road.A senior official attributed the delay to sustained opposition from villagers and continued uncertainty over the long-pending Maan–Mhalunge model TP scheme. The statutory deadline ended on Monday, but officials confirmed that Pune Metropolitan…
Mumbai: Doctors say high air pollution levels may be making recovery from seasonal flu more difficult this time, as particulate matter aggravates airways. Even people with no underlying condition have their illness prolonged because of airway hyperreactivity.Amid a surge in load at OPDs, many patients are either those with chronic respiratory illnesses or even healthy…
New Delhi: A WhatsApp group, created a week ago allegedly to coordinate Sunday’s pollution protest that had turned violent, is central to Delhi Police’s investigation, said sources. One of the two FIRs registered over the incident details how protesters, in an organised and planned manner, fled Kartavya Path, but again gathered outside Parliament Street police…
Pune: A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has directed a general insurance company and the owner of a truck to pay Rs10.95 crore compensation, with interest at 7.5% per annum from March 1, 2016 — the date of filing of petition — to the parents, wife, two daughters and a minor son of a businessman…
Mumbai: A childless couple has moved the Bombay high court for easing age-related restrictions against assisted reproductive treatment. The couple has sought to continue treatment at a central Mumbai fertility and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) clinic though the husband crossed 55 years of age a couple of months back. Under the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act,…
New Delhi: Steps towards inclusivity are turning into strides at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, with Swavalamban, its resource centre for students with disabilities, ready to redefine accessible learning. The revitalised centre is equipped with advanced assistive technologies for students, especially those with visual and low-vision impairments.A range of new accessibility tools has been…
Pune: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench in Pune has directed a ready-mix cement (RMC) plant at Wadgaon Budruk to deposit Rs 29.68 lakh as environmental damage compensation (EDC) within a month with the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for violating pollution norms. The bench said that the amount should be utilised for environmental improvement…
Thane: MNS workers forced an autorickshaw driver to do sit-ups and apologise publicly after he allegedly abused Raj Thackeray and other leaders of the party in a viral video, leading to the registration of an FIR in Thane and his arrest, police said on Monday.A case against the viral video was registered at Chitalsar police…
New Delhi: A temporary reconciliation or even pregnancy cannot erase the previous acts of cruelty and abusive conduct of a spouse, Delhi High Court has observed, allowing the divorce plea of a husband. The HC overturned the family court’s decision not to grant a divorce and pointed out that cruelty must be judged based on…
Pune: A special drive of the Pimpri Chinchwad police against the influx of firearms in the twin city led to the seizure of as many as eight country-made firearms and 11 cartridges within four days.The police also arrested seven men and detained a minor in this regard. Action was taken in Chakan, Talegaon, Mhalunge MIDC,…
