NEW DELHI: Delhi woke up to dense smog on Sunday morning, with the average Air Quality Index (AQI) at 381 at 7 am, placing it in the ‘very poor’ category. This comes despite the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)-IV being in effect across Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), according to the Central Pollution…
Mumbai: Investigations into the shooting of Charkop-based developer Freddy D’Lima have so far found that it could be the result of a financial dispute between D’Lima and one of the arrested accused. The five accused were produced before the Esplanade court on Saturday and remanded in crime branch custody until November 27.On Nov 19 afternoon,…
Pune: The long-pending proposal for a dedicated cancer hospital in Pune, first introduced in 2016, is finally moving forward. The facility, affiliated with the Sassoon General Hospital, would operate under a public-private partnership (PPP) model, with 25 of 125 beds managed by a private firm — meaning patients will bear treatment costs for those services.Dheeraj…
NEW DELHI: A classmate of 16-year-old Shourya Patil, a Class X student of St Columba’s School who died by suicide, alleged that one of the accused teachers would often use him as an example of under-performing students. Students also claimed that Patil had informed the school counsellor about having suicidal thoughts weeks before his death,…
Thane: The Thane unit of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Saturday alleged discrepancies in the draft list of voters and ward boundaries released by the Thane corporation ahead of the civic polls. The party blamed the manner in which the election department finalised the wards and urged senior officials to look into the alleged…
Pune: Hemant Gaikwad, a computer science graduate from Beed, has found contentment behind the wheel in the city. After taking a loan from relatives to purchase a cab, he began driving three months ago. “Although I was working a corporate job earlier, the salary wasn’t enough to sustain my family. Now, I am earning well…
Delhi St Columba’s Class 10 student suicide case NEW DELHI: Classmates of 16year-old Shourya Patil, a Class X student of St Columba’s School who died by suicide on Nov 18, have claimed that he informed the school counsellor of suicidal thoughts weeks before his death, but the concern was dismissed as a “joke” and never…
Thane: A Mumbai-based passenger association has written to the railway board in New Delhi to introduce an insurance system for passengers using suburban season tickets, considering the high volume of mishaps and the subsequent trauma faced by surviving victims and families of railway-related mishaps.Diva-based activist Ananda Patil of the Mumbai-based Marathi Ekikaran Samiti has pointed…
Pune: Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) has issued a comprehensive standard operating procedure (SOP) to expedite recovery of compensation from developers who fail to comply with its orders.The SOP, released on Thursday in adherence to Bombay high court directions, lays out strict timelines and escalation measures, including attachment of properties and possibility of civil…
New Delhi: India has become the world’s leading nation for live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) — and Delhi is driving this achievement more than any other region in the country. This was highlighted at the Annual Conference of the Liver Transplantation Society of India (LTSICON 2025), where experts from over 20 countries gathered in the…
