Thane: Days after a 52-year-old labourer died after falling from the 12th floor of an under-construction high-rise in Badlapur, the police on Tuesday booked a contractor on charges of negligence causing death. The incident occurred on October 29 at the under-construction Trident Avalon project, where the deceased, identified as Ramprakash Molhu, was assigned tiling work…
New Delhi: Delhi Jal Board engineer Suresh Rathi (59) didn’t just love gold. He lived in it. He liked to show it off, and his identity was inseparable from the heavy chains around his neck, the thick kadas on his wrists, and the rings that filled the fingers on both his hands. The show of…
Pune: “If a local bhai knows you, nods at you, and comes to your sister’s wedding, it means you are respected. You are not invisible anymore,” said a 19-year-old from Pimpri Chinchwad, who was kept in an observation home for an attempt to murder when he was 16. The youth is not alone. Social media…
Mumbai: The Anti-narcotics cell of the Mumbai police have busted a drug peddling racket with the arrest of Farid Shaikh alias Chuha and have seized 64 grams of Mephedrone drug worth Rs 12.7 lakhs.Police are looking for his mentor, identified as Ahmed Shafi Shaikh alias Khau, a notorious criminal with 18 offences registered against him,…
New Delhi: In 2017, he was booked under the Pocso Act for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor girl. A year later, Nitesh Dahiya and his friends kidnapped a man, who was in love with their friend’s sister, and killed him. Arrested in these cases, he had been behind bars till last Nov, when he…
Pune: An IT engineer and his wife, worried about the future of their two daughters suffering from an ailment since birth, lost Rs 14 crore since 2018 to a woman who claimed to possess spiritual powers that would cure the duo.The couple, in their fifties, sold off their properties in the UK and in Pune…
Mumbai: People who live or commute to south Mumbai cannot fail to notice the old world buildings with curved balconies, porthole windows, pastel coloured facades and sunburst motifs along Churchgate and Oval Maidan. The kind that house the iconic Eros Cinema as well as Gaylord Restaurant. These structures are shining examples of the Art Deco…
New Delhi: Tension simmers beneath a veneer of calm at the govt hostel for blind college students at northwest Delhi’s Kingsway Camp. The facility was set up in 1980 as a safe and inclusive space to accommodate such male students pursuing higher education at Delhi University and nearby institutes. However, it’s no longer an oasis…
Pune: District collector Jitendra Dudi said on Wednesday that he would seek permission from the State Election Commission (SEC) before disbursing compensation to farmers whose land was being acquired for the proposed Purandar International Airport. Dudi told TOI that since the model code of conduct (MCC) was in force for the upcoming municipal council and…
Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai crime branch unit-2 team arrested a history-sheeter from Pune who posed as a cop and robbed unwary citizens in Navi Mumbai. The accused, Sajjad Garibshah Irani, was arrested on 28 October while probing a cheating case wherein a Kharghar resident, Pawan Kumar Kejriwal (68), was conned on the street by…
