Navi Mumbai: Three separate FIRs of power theft were registered at APMC police station earlier this week against a landlord who has rented his three houses in a building in Kopri village in Sector 26A, Vashi, and his three tenants.The FIRs were lodged by MSEDCL’s assistant engineer (recovery squad), Jayesh Gaikar (25), on behalf of…
New Delhi: A fire broke out at a chemical godown in northwest Delhi’s Pooth Khurd Saturday evening. No injuries or casualties were reported in the incident.According to Delhi Fire Service (DFS), a call was received about the fire around 6.03 pm, after which nine fire tenders with around 45 firemen reached the spot. The fire…
Chennai: A woman who posed as a customer stole 40 sovereigns of gold jewellery from a jewellery shop in Vyasarpadi, over a period of four months. Police registered a case and launched a search for the woman and her two sons, who were captured on CCTV fleeing the scene in a car.The complainant, Ankush, 33,…
Gaya: Supreme Court judge Justice N Koteshwar Singh on Saturday called for a review of the implementation of the three new criminal laws, saying the focus should be on making the justice system more citizen-centric and less cumbersome.Speaking at the inaugural session of a two-day conference on the uniform implementation of the laws at the…
Monsoon in central India (PTI) NEW DELHI: A well-marked low-pressure area that has developed over northwest Bay of Bengal will help monsoon continue in “active phase” over central parts of the country over the next 4-5 days, IMD said on Saturday, when the cumulative (June 1-July 4) rainfall deficit dropped to nearly 27% from 40%…
Sixteen people were killed in the Taratala warehouse collapse Kolkata: All six accused – including former Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Kalicharan Banerjee – were remanded to police custody till July 8 in connection with the collapse of an under-construction warehouse at Taratala that claimed 16 lives and left 17 others…
Turtles, rabbits and even a deer have passed through this crematorium Thane is about to get its second pet crematorium. The Kalwa facility, free like its predecessor, opens on August 15, with two more planned along Ghodbunder Road and in Kopri. Until then, the Thane Municipal Corporation’s pet crematorium in Majiwada remains the district’s only…
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Friday launched a pilot project for microchipping stray dogs at the Animal Birth Control (ABC) centre in Bijwasan.Officials said the NGO Friendicoes-SESCA, which operates the centre, has agreed to implant microchips free of cost in stray dogs brought to the facility for sterilisation under CSR model.“While the NGO…
Chennai: A 41-year-old grocery shopkeeper, accused of sexually harassing a 15-year-old schoolgirl in Poonthandalam, near Kundrathur, consumed pesticide after learning that a police complaint had been filed against him. He was admitted to Tambaram Govt Hospital for treatment.Police said Karthikeyan, 41, was making inappropriate remarks and asking the girl for a kiss when she visited…
Patna: The legal troubles of DSP Rajesh Sharma continue to mount with proceedings resuming in the long-pending 2007 alleged fake encounter case in Muzaffarpur. A Muzaffarpur court has fixed July 15 for the next hearing after taking up a fresh application filed by the mother of one of the deceased through an advocate.The development comes…
