Mumbai: A day after the damage to a gas pipeline in Chembur, several Mumbaikars faced the inconvenience of not getting autos, taxis, private cabs, and school buses on Monday as operations of several CNG refuelling stations in MMR remained shut. The situation may worsen on Tuesday as 44% of the BEST bus fleet running on…
Pune: State forest minister Ganesh Naik announced on Monday that the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has formally approved Maharashtra’s proposed leopard birth control project, which would be rolled out “scientifically and with utmost caution” in the Junnar forest division.This marks the first-ever sterilisation-based leopard population management programme sanctioned in India. Naik…
New Delhi: Delhi’s resident welfare associations (RWAs) and other welfare bodies are taking immediate measures to secure neighbourhoods a week after the devastating car bomb blast at Red Fort by increasing guard patrols, installing or upgrading CCTV cameras and monitoring visitor access.In south Delhi’s Navjiwan Vihar, residents said on Monday that five more streetlights have…
Mumbai: A conversation between a court clerk and a man in a court washroom is alleged to be the genesis of a case that led to the naming of an additional sessions judge as an accused and the arrest of the court clerk in a Rs 15 lakh bribery case. The clerk, Chandrakant Vasudev, allegedly…
Pune: Five vehicles were damaged after a container truck driver lost control of the wheel and hit a pickup truck, leading to a pile-up of vehicles on Bhumkar Bridge along the Katraj Dehu Road Bypass on Monday afternoon. Fortunately, no one was injured. The incident took place around 1.30pm, when all the vehicles involved were…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has initiated a major, multi-crore overhaul of its counter-terrorism capabilities, earmarking over Rs 35 crore for the procurement of advanced bomb detection and disposal equipment, according to sources.This substantial investment is coupled with a significant expansion and upskilling of the force’s bomb detection teams (BDT) and bomb disposal squads (BDS), signalling…
Mumbai: State governor and chancellor of public universities, Acharya Devvrat, has directed vice-chancellors to set up a taskforce to improve their universities’ rankings nationally and globally. The taskforce should submit progress reports every fortnight he said, adding the universities need to remain constantly proactive to improve their ranking standards.Meanwhile, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, while addressing…
Pune: A 20-year-old college student, riding pillion on her father’s scooter, was run over by a dumper after she fell as their two-wheeler wobbled over an uneven drainage chamber near Kolte Patil society in Punawale, close to Hinjewadi, around 1.35pm on Monday.Police identified the deceased college student as Tanvi Sakhare. She came under the rear…
New Delhi: Delhi govt is revising the 2015 Delhi Slum & JJ Rehabilitation and Relocation Policy and will introduce simplified eligibility norms for allotting thousands of unused EWS flats, with key criteria expected to include a post-2015 cut-off date, annual household income below Rs 3 lakh, no ownership of a pucca house, and no previous…
Mumbai: Less than 24 hours after it welcomed former NCP (SP) functionary Kashinath Choudhary, whom it had accused of being involved in the 2020 mob lynching of two sadhus in Palghar, BJP did a U-turn and suspended his entry.Deputy CM Eknath Shinde had once cited Choudhary’s alleged involvement in the lynching to explain why he…
