The police complaint was lodged on Thursday by one of the two girls who suffered electric shock Navi Mumbai: An FIR was registered against the suspended NMMC (zone-1) executive engineer (electrical) Pravin Gade at Nerul police station Thursday evening in the incident of two college girls Ujwala Wagh (19) and Shubhangi Balkhande (17) sustaining severe…
Citizens fill forms and submit documents during the SIR drive in Khadki, Pune. Pune: The state govt may write to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) seeking an extension to the timeline for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Congress MLC Satej Patil flagged the mounting workload on booth-level officers (BLOs), manpower shortages…
Mumbai: A television actor has been arrested by the city police for allegedly stalking, repeatedly calling, harassing and assaulting a 16-year-old girl in an eastern suburb. Police have booked him under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.Besides the stringent Pocso Act, Pant Nagar Police have also invoked the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)…
Pic used for representation purpose Nagpur/Mumbai: CBSE Class 10 students who were counting on their second board exam results to improve scores and secure seats in top state board junior colleges have been left disappointed as admissions are winding up and the central board has still not declared the results. The state board’s common admission…
Mumbai: CBI conducted searches at multiple premises linked to five directors of a private company, Furnace Fabrica (India), in Maharashtra and Kerala in connection with an alleged Rs 134 crore SBI bank loan fraud case.CBI alleged that the accused entered into a criminal conspiracy and secured higher credit facilities from SBI by submitting false financial…
A Mumbai BEST bus driver stops his bus in traffic to buy sev puri from a roadside chaat stall, highlighting everyday street food culture and urban commuting in India. Mumbai: A complaint was lodged against a BEST bus driver for allegedly bringing traffic to a standstill near Mulund West railway station on Wednesday after halting…
Ulhasnagar: In a first-of-its-kind initiative to clean up its property tax database and improve revenue administration, the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) has identified nearly Rs 170 crore in outstanding property tax linked to non-existent or wrongly recorded properties under ‘Project Manthan’, a data-cleaning exercise launched by municipal commissioner Manisha Awhale.The project, being implemented by the…
A Booth Level Officer verifies voter details under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, in Nagpur Mumbai: With Maharashtra reeling under the monsoon’s fury, just around 10%-15% forms for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) have been distributed to voters in Mumbai and a total of 46% in the state over the last 10…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray on Thursday took aim at chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, questioning why raising concerns over the quality of infrastructure projects such as the Missing Link is being portrayed as an insult to Maharashtra.Speaking at an event organised by the MNS Rail Sena, the party’s railway union, Thackeray also…
Indian researchers are developing technology to convert farm waste into valuable fuel MUMBAI: The recent conflict in West Asia, which rattled global energy markets and renewed concerns over the security of oil supplies through the Strait of Hormuz, has once again highlighted India’s dependence on imported crude.While oil prices have eased after the end of…
