Pune: The civic administration has taken up a two-week-long drive to trim the branches of trees obstructing streetlights, following complaints from residents about poor illumination on roads during the night hours.All ward offices, along with the garden department, are expected to take up the trimming with immediate effect.A circular has been issued by additional municipal…
New Delhi: Three court complexes — Dwarka, Saket and Patiala House — received bomb threats on Tuesday, triggering security checks and evacuation. The threats sent by email at around 9am to Delhi Police and security agencies were later declared hoaxes. It was claimed explosive devices had been “strategically planted” in all three complexes. Bomb disposal…
Thane: NCP (SP) on Tuesday alleged theft of 60 million litres per day (MLD) water from the supply line between Pise weir and its filtration plant at Temghar in Thane. It said the volume could cater to scarcity-hit Kalwa, Mumbra and Ghodbunder. Manoj Pradhan, the party’s district chief, said while 310MLD is pumped out of…
Pune: State Election Commission (SEC) has revised the final reservation for two wards in Pimpri Chinchwad for the upcoming civic election after detecting errors by civic officials during the draw conducted on Nov 11. A senior PCMC official said the draft reservation list submitted to SEC for approval contained discrepancies that were spotted during scrutiny.The…
New Delhi: With the air quality swinging between very poor and severe for over a month, Delhi seems to have plunged into a public health emergency. Doctors have warned that pollution levels are causing damage from “before birth to the end of life”, with a sharp surge in the number of children coming in with…
Vasai: Three unknown men barged into a third floor flat of the Raut family in Vasai East, on Tuesday around 1:30pm, tied and gagged family members and looted jewellery and cash worth lakhs before fleeing the scene. This daylight robbery in Reliable Glory — a society of around 300 flats — has stunned residents, who…
2 more succumb to injuries, blast toll goes up to 15 NEW DELHI: Two more victims of the Red Fort blast have succumbed to injuries, raising the death toll to 15 a week after the explosion.The deceased are 50-year-old Vinay Pathak and 73-year-old Mohammad Luqman. Calm And Radical: Dr Umar’s Pre-Blast Video Exposes Educated New…
Vasai: The Waliv polive have arrested a man who has been accused of pushing his niece to death from a running local, in Vasai on Nov 17. The niece died on the spot The16-year-old girl lives with her family in Mumbai. She had come to visit her relatives home in Vasai East. Police said that…
Pune: At least 100 flyers were stranded at the airport on Tuesday early morning after a Delhi-bound IndiGo flight was delayed by more than three hours. The flight (6E-6763) was scheduled to take off at 5.05am and land in the national capital at 7.15am. It was finally airborne at 8.15am and landed in Delhi at…
NEW DELHI: Intensifying its probe into the Red Fort suicide bombing, NIA on Monday arrested another Kashmiri resident in the case and revealed that the module was planning to carry out Hamas-style terror attacks using drones. The Jaish module was also in the process of making small rockets that were to be used in the…
