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New Delhi: Delhi Police on arrested a 58-year-old man and detained six workers for allegedly running a counterfeit toothpaste manufacturing unit in northwest Delhi's Kanjhawala area, officials said on Friday, adding that the accused used blue bleaching agents and other chemicals and filling tubes in "extremely unhygienic conditions" More than 13,000 tubes with Sensodyne brand name were recovered from the unit along with cartons, tube filling and sealing machines, blue colour paste, wrappers, he ...Read More >
GUWAHATI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday made a strong pitch for the return of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power in Assam as he reiterated his party's commitment to implementing a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Assam, while clarifying that tribal communities will remain outside its jurisdiction. "If you form a BJP-led government in Assam, we will bring in uniform civil code, which will ensure that no one marries four time. And I assure that tribals will be kept outside of the purv ...Read More >
Mumbai: When playing evening T20 games in the subcontinent, the team bowling second mostly finds itself under pressure because dew makes the ball difficult to grip. In their first home game of the season, at the M A Chidambaram Stadium, on Friday, Chennai Super Kings had reasons to worry after losing the toss against Punjab Kings and being put into bat. At the break, though the dew had yet to set in, which was good news for the home side bowlers. Having posted a total of 209/5 they would have ...Read More >
Mumbai: Nuwan Thushara wants to play the IPL. But he requires a No Objection Certificate from his employer Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), which is not forthcoming. In a renewed focus on fitness, SLC has mandated its contracted players to be certified fit before playing league cricket. Thushara hasn't made the cut. His ₹1.6 crore contract with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) hangs in the balance. There are three entities in this saga: the cricket board, the franchise, and the supervising body, the ...Read More >
The AM Green India Golf Premier League (IGPL) unveiled its ten franchise squads in New Delhi, aiming to enhance golf tourism and player development in India. With a commitment of US$2 billion for infrastructure, the season includes 15 events, featuring both local and international venues. Cricket star Yuvraj Singh and Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat emphasized the league's potential to elevate India's global tourism profile. The AM Green India Golf Premier League (IGPL) on Thursday announced ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz have had a severe economic impact and are causing energy instability in the region, said admiral D K Tripathi, chief of naval staff, in Mumbai on Thursday. The strait, an international waterway between Iran and Oman, controls a large volume of global oil flow and is in focus due to the war in West Asia, which is well into its fifth week. Tripathi and Union minister of state for defence, Sanjay Seth, were in Mumbai to flag off the second edition of th ...Read More >
Pune: Biomedical waste, considered among the most hazardous categories of hospital waste, has been found dumped in the open inside the Aundh District Hospital (ADH) campus, raising serious concerns over public health and safety. Used injections, syringes, medicine vials, saline bottles and face masks were spotted lying unattended on open ground behind the 108 ambulance service office near the Chest (Tuberculosis) Hospital on Tuesday. The waste was reportedly noticed by citizens and attendants o ...Read More >
THANE: A man attempting to protect a woman from being allegedly sexually harassed and attacked shot dead one of the three attackers and injured the other two outside a school in Mumbra on Thursday morning. Police intercepted the shooter, Jayan Shivanandan Nair, a 51-year-old truck driver, as he fled in a car, and seized the revolver used in the crime. They have also arrested Nair and the woman, Anwara Bibi Sheikh, housekeeping staff at the Sumantai Chavan Hindi Primary School in Kailash Nagarm. ...Read More >
Mumbai: A 34-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly stealing jewellery worth ₹1.75 crore from a Jain temple inside the upscale One Avighna Park complex in Lalbaug, where he previously worked as a security guard. The accused had fled to his sister's place in Madhya Pradesh, from where he was arrested, the police said. The accused, identified as Jeetendra alias Jitan alias Bunty alias Pandit alias Bhagwati Prasad Nagaich, is a native of Bhind district in Madhya Pradesh and has at lea ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Even as debt and fiscal deficit rose sharply in the last two years, Maharashtra's revenue in FY25-26 fell significantly across key heads -- Goods and Services Tax (GST), excise duty, motor vehicle tax, and stamp duty and registration of properties. This led to a revenue shortfall of around ₹41,000 crore against budget estimates, slowing capital expenditure and development projects. Provisional figures at the end of the financial year put total revenue receipts at ₹5.60 lakh crore, falli ...Read More >
PUNE: A woman was killed and two other persons were injured after a tree collapsed on Sinhagad road as Pune witnessed its highest-ever single-day rainfall for April, with the unseasonal downpour crippling normal life across the city on Wednesday. The woman, Ranjana Navnath Giri, died near Navshya Maruti temple after a tree in the vicinity got uprooted by strong winds and heavy rain. Two other persons suffered injuries and were rushed to a nearby hospital. According to the India Meteorological ...Read More >
Pune/Nashik: A Nashik court on Thursday remanded self-styled godman Ashok Kharat to a week's police custody in a second sexual abuse case, alleging forced termination of pregnancy and sustained coercion. The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which arrested Kharat from Nashik Central Jail on Wednesday evening in another case, told the court that custodial interrogation was crucial to probe the abortion angle, source of pills and alleged threats to the survivor. The court of chief judicial magist ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) could soon get a new, state-of-the-art cricket stadium with a capacity of 100,000 spectators. Senior officials from the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) met with Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday to discuss plans for the facility, which will come up in Navi Mumbai, according to people familiar with the developments. If all things go to plan, the new facility would become the second-largest stadium in India by capacity, behind ...Read More >
JODHPUR: The Rajasthan high court on Thursday ordered the deletion of three paragraphs that criticised the recent amendments to the trangender rights act from a March 30 verdict, adding that the text in the epilogue was included by mistake and was neither intended nor necessary. A division bench of justices Arun Monga and Yogendra Kumar Purohit - who had passed the order while deciding a writ application filed by a transgender person - noted that certain portions had "inadvertently" been includ ...Read More >
New Delhi: The government is taking several measures to reduce LPG import dependence and enhance energy security over the medium to long term, minister of state for environment Suresh Gopi informed the Lok Sabha on Thursday in a written response. These include prioritising piped natural gas (PNG) and renewable energy development, including solar, wind, bioenergy and green hydrogen. Further, as part of a strategy to diversify LPG imports, PSU oil marketing companies have recently concluded cont ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Centre has granted the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) the status of an "Institution deemed to be University under distinct category", enabling it to independently offer degree programmes as part of efforts to strengthen teacher education and educational research in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. With the new status conferred by the Union education ministry, NCERT will now be able to offer diploma, undergraduate (UG), postgraduat ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has collected property tax worth ₹3,116 crore in 2025-26, running short of the ₹3,500 crore target set by the civic body. Overall 13,52,552 properties paid their taxes, however, a large section of Delhi still remains out of tax net as only a fraction of the number of properties pay property taxes in the city. MCD revenue of ₹3,116 crore was collected from 1,352,562 property tax payers in comparison to ₹2,132.89 crore received from 1,133,161 taxpaye ...Read More >
New Delhi: There was an air of confidence around the Indian women's tennis team as the players assembled at the DLTA courts on Thursday to prepare for the Billie Jean King Cup (Asia/Oceania Group I). Under captain Vishal Uppal, the team punched above its weight last year, pulling off impressive wins to qualify for the play-offs. It was only the second time that India had reached this stage. They eventually lost to the Netherlands and Slovenia, and are now back at the same stage to make another ...Read More >
Kolkata: An all-round effort from Nitish Kumar Reddy, coupled with quickfire forties from Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma and a mature fifty from Heinrich Klaasen helped Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 65 runs here on Thursday. Set a target of 227, KKR took to the chase with gusto as Finn Allen blasted 28 runs off six balls before his slog was caught by bowler Harsh Dubey in the second over. Angkrish Raghuvanshi tried to shore up the innings with a 29-ball 52 but it was nowher ...Read More >
Lucknow: Just before the start of IPL 2026, Delhi Capitals captain and all-rounder Axar Patel stated he is "not a fan" of the Impact Player rule, arguing it diminishes the role of all-rounders by encouraging teams to pick specialist batters or bowlers. It was his personal view but he didn't know this rule would benefit his side in the opening encounter of the cash rich league, After losing four wickets for just 26 runs in the season opener against hosts Lucknow Super Giants on Wednesday night, ...Read More >
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the "valuable" right to vote cannot be "washed out" in a manner that creates an "oppressive" situation for citizens as it allowed tribunals set up in West Bengal to hear appeals of voters in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercise to even examine fresh documents after verification. The order was passed by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on being informed that 19 tribunals headed by former high court chief ju ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The civic administration has introduced sweeping relaxations to fast-track the installation of piped natural gas (PNG) across Mumbai, facilitating the transition from LPG to piped cooking gas. The urgency arises from a crippling shortage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used for cooking, due to the war in West Asia. PNG supply has so far not been disrupted for domestic consumers, with the state government mandating that residents make the switch from LPG to PNG in areas where piped gas ...Read More >
Mumbai: The state government on Wednesday extended the deadline for completing the e-KYC process under the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, giving beneficiaries time till April 30 to complete the mandatory verification. Nearly 68 lakh women who had previously received benefits are yet to complete the process, officials said. Women and child development minister Aditi Tatkare said the extension would be the last opportunity for beneficiaries to complete or correct their e-KYC details, fail ...Read More >
THANE: A 30-year-old man suffered grievous injuries after falling between the platform and railway track at Thane railway station while allegedly performing stunts on a moving train on Tuesday night. According to officials, the legs of the victim, Purshottam Paswan, got severed from the ankles in the mishap. Paswan, a native of Jharkhand, was travelling on the Indrayani Express from Pune. When he fell, alert passengers immediately informed the train guard, who applied the emergency brake and br ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked news channel Republic TV and its editor-in-chief, Arnab Goswami, to avoid "hitting below the belt" while covering the Enforcement Directorate's (ED's) investigations into companies linked to industrialist Anil Ambani. A single-judge bench of justice Milind Jadhav orally told Goswami and Republic TV to "bring down the rhetoric" and refrain from "giving superlative taglines to news" that could be seen as attacking an individual. "Please run storie ...Read More >
Pune: The daily food habits of a community usually find a place within the festivals of the deity they worship. Dishes that sustain their work, express their values, or carry ritual significance are offered as "prasad" and take on a sacred character. What starts as an ordinary practice gathers meaning and becomes part of a shared tradition. In 19th-century Maharashtra, much of the thinking around social change was framed through a religious lens. The spread of Western education, along with soci ...Read More >
Pune: Toll charges on major Pune highways, including Pune-Satara, Pune-Kolhapur, Pune-Solapur and Pune-Nashik, have increased by 3% to 5% from April 1. This revision by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) means higher daily travel costs for commuters and transporters across the district. At the Khed Shivapur toll plaza on the Pune-Satara highway, one of the busiest entry and exit points for the city, the revised toll for cars, jeeps and vans now stands at ₹125 for a one-way journey ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Wheat procurement in Punjab began on Wednesday on a troubled note as arhtiyas (commission agents), who play a central role in mandi operations, went on strike over a set of unresolved demands, raising concerns over disruptions in the procurement process. The arhtiyas are demanding restoration of the old system of 2.5% dami (commission), reimbursement of ₹55 crore deducted by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) as employees' provident fund (EPF), and withdrawal of the decision to cut ...Read More >
New Delhi: A 20-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing his 30-year-old brother-in-law over a family dispute at Tahirpur near Nand Nagri in northeast Delhi on Sunday, police said on Wednesday. A knife that was used in the crime was recovered following the interrogation of the arrested man, identified as Ramesh Yadav, the police said. Deputy commissioner of police (northeast) Ashish Mishra said that on Sunday night, information was received at Nand Nagri police station from Guru Teg Baha ...Read More >
Lucknow: New logo, new jersey and even new vigor, but nothing worked out the way Lucknow Super Giants would have hoped for on Wednesday. The same old story repeated itself for Rishabh Pant and Co, who lost to Delhi Capitals by six wickets on their home turf in the season opener, marking their third successive defeat against them. Even after losing four quick wickets for just 26 runs, including skipper Axar Patel, Delhi Capitals managed to beat the hosts. Local boy Sameer Rizvi struck his second ...Read More >
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