Tharoor said young people are an increasingly significant segment of the population and will form the largest single voting bloc in the 2029 elections. MUMBAI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said politicians must listen to young people and engage with them, arguing that Gen Z and Gen Alpha will play an increasingly important role in…
The loan waiver was declared by the state on June 2 Mumbai: Mahayuti govt’s Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar loan waiver’s disbursal began on Friday with Rs 5,027 crore released into the bank accounts of 6.2 lakh farmers of an estimated 54.6 lakh through direct benefit transfer.“Of the 18-19 lakh bank accounts identified, around 12 lakh accounts…
The money was found missing when Roy checked his baggage on Wednesday night and found his wallet and the bag were open Mumbai: A scientist-businessman from Kolkata, Rahul Roy (65), filed a police complaint after $6,000, equivalent to around Rs 5.3 lakh, went missing from his baggage at a five-star hotel room in Bandra (W).Bandra…
Ulhasnagar: The Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) has registered an offence against two of its employees for allegedly failing to perform their duties properly as Booth Level Officers (BLOs) during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.According to the FIR, the complaint was lodged by Vishal Vasant Kadam (46), an assistant municipal commissioner with…
Andheri GRP have registered a case of molestation, criminal intimidation and mischief in a public place against the accused Mohammad Rizwan Ansari Mumbai: After a video of a ‘drunk’ man hurling expletives and assaulting a woman for sleeping on a local train seat went viral on social media, Andheri GRP tracked down the accused and…
The FIR was lodged in Oct last year Mumbai: Holding that participation in a programme paying homage to the late Delhi University professor G N Saibaba, who was acquitted in a UAPA case, or downloading books published by Maoist writers alone would not amount to a criminal offence, a sessions court on Friday granted anticipatory…
The magnets from the child’s toy Mumbai: What appeared to be a stomach infection in a two-year-old boy turned out to be a medical emergency after two tiny toy magnets, which had been swallowed separately, locked onto each other inside his intestines, tearing holes in his bowel and forcing emergency surgery.Swallowing foreign objects is among…
This was Shinde’s first meeting with PM Modi after the Cockroach Janta Party-led student protests Mumbai: Political circles were once again rife with speculation after DCM Eknath Shinde visited Delhi on Friday and met PM Narendra Modi in Parliament. This was Shinde’s first meeting with PM Modi after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led student protests…
Thane: A Thane sessions court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to former MP Vinayak Raut, wife Shamal, son Gitesh, and two relatives in connection with a case registered by Kapurbawdi police over allegations of cruelty, concealment before marriage and subjecting his daughter-in-law to alleged black magic and “inhuman” rituals.The FIR invokes provisions of the Bharatiya…
The victim, Jayshree Bhanji Parmar, was employed as a sanitation worker with BMC and was two years away from retirement Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport’s (BEST) 79th foundation day celebrations turned sour after a 56-year-old BMC sanitation worker was fatally run over by a bus when she was crossing the road at a…
