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Mumbai: The BMC is set to begin structural strengthening work on the Parel TT flyover in October this year. To minimise traffic inconvenience, the repairs will be carried out in phases by closing one lane at a time. The repair work was originally planned two years ago but was deferred as the Delisle Road Bridge in Lower Parel was still under reconstruction at the time. Undertaking both projects simultaneously would have worsened traffic congestion in central Mumbai. Constructed in 1980, the Pa ...Read More >
Mumbai: In a significant ruling on cross-border adoption, the Bombay High Court has refused to grant relief to an Indian couple seeking to adopt their nephew born in the United States, holding that the adoption cannot be processed under India's Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, as the child is a US citizen and not a "child in need of care and protection". A bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Neela Gokhale dismissed the plea by the couple, who are Indian citizen ...Read More >
* A committee led by the Director General of Police will study Maharashtra's anti-conversion law * The anti-conversion law will be presented in the next state legislative session after committee review * A case was registered on December 8, 2023, regarding alleged abuses at an orphanage in Pune district Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has appointed a committee under the chairmanship of the Director General of Police to study the la ...Read More >
Pune: An eleven-month baby boy died after being accidentally struck with a trishul (trident) during a heated argument between a couple. The incident took place in the Kedgaon area of Daund taluka, Pune district. According to preliminary information, the child was injured when the accused woman, in a fit of rage during an argument with her husband, allegedly hurled a trishul at him. However, the weapon struck the infant, who was being held by a relative nearby. The severely injured child was rush ...Read More >
Pune, July 12: Congress MP and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi on Friday pleaded not guilty before a Pune court in connection with a defamation case filed against him over his remarks on Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The plea was submitted before Judicial Magistrate (First Class) and Special Judge for MP/MLA cases, Amol Sriram Shinde, at the Pune District Court. Advocate Milind Pawar appeared on behalf of Rahul Gandhi, as the Congress leader was not personally pr ...Read More >
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], July 12 (ANI): Congress MP and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi on Friday pleaded not guilty before a Pune court in connection with a defamation case filed against him over his remarks on Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The plea was submitted before Judicial Magistrate (First Class) and Special Judge for MP/MLA cases, Amol Sriram Shinde, at the Pune District Court. Advocate Milind Pawar appeared on behalf of Rahul Gandhi, as the Congress ...Read More >
Pune: State Election Commission (SEC) will use the July 1, 2025, updated legislative assembly voters' list for the upcoming local body elections with chairperson Dinesh Waghmare directing district collectors and municipal commissioners to begin preparations based on the updated voter rolls during video conferences on Thursday and Friday.Elections are due for 29 municipal corporations, 290 nagar panchayats and parishads, 32 zilla parishads, and 336 panchayat samitis, as their terms have expired. ...Read More >
Amritsar: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey from Jharkhand has claimed that Britain assisted India in executing the 1984 Operation Bluestar at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, stoking a new controversy.In a post on X on Monday, Dubey alleged that then PM Indira Gandhi "launched an attack on the Golden Temple in collaboration with Britain", with British Army officers present in Amritsar.He uploaded a classified British document, "Sikh Community", claiming that on Feb 23, 1984, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth ...Read More >
Pune: The first round of centralised admission process (CAP) for entry into the first year of junior colleges across the state concluded on Monday, with 4,32,287 students confirming their admission. Altogether 6.32 lakh students were allocated colleges in round 1. For CAP round II, students will be able to fill the online forms from July 10 to 13. The allotment list for the second round will be published on July 17. Students who receive allotments can confirm their admission between 18 and 21 Ju ...Read More >
Pune, Jul 7 (PTI) A 35-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh, suspected to be mentally unstable, allegedly tried to desecrate Mahatma Gandhi's statue installed in Pune railway station premises, police said on Monday. Some people in the area caught hold of the man after the incident late Sunday night and handed him over to police, who placed him under arrest, they said. Local Congress workers on Monday staged a protest near the statue, installed opposite the main exit and entrance area of the busy st ...Read More >
Kochi: Edison Babu's neighbours in Muvattupuzha knew him as the quiet engineer who had returned home during the pandemic. The 35-year-old former auto industry professional seemed to lead an unremarkable life in this sleepy Kerala suburb, occasionally visiting the local post office with packages: nothing unusual for someone running what appeared to be a small online business. What they didn't know was that their mild-mannered neighbour had built India's most sophisticated darknet drug empire, o ...Read More >
Pune: An alert was issued in the low-lying areas of Pimpri Chinchwad after the irrigation department on Saturday released water from the swelling Pavana dam into the Pavana river for the first time this monsoon.An official of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) said they were keeping a watch on water levels in the low-lying areas of Ravet and Tathawade along the Pavana river. The situation was under control on Saturday. Residents along the river were alerted about a possible rise i ...Read More >
Pune: Police have released the sketch of one of the two men accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl and robbing women after their car halted on a roadside in Maharashtra's Pune district, an official said. The shocking incident took place at around 4.15 am on Monday on a highway near Bhigwan in Daund town when a group of people was travelling in a car to the temple town of Pandharpur in neighbouring Solapur district, according to police. "Based on the description given by the victims, ...Read More >
Pune: Police have released the sketch of one of the two men accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl and robbing women after their car halted on a roadside in Maharashtra's Pune district, an official said. The shocking incident took place at around 4.15 am on Monday on a highway near Bhigwan in Daund town when a group of people was travelling in a car to the temple town of Pandharpur in neighbouring Solapur district, according to police. "Based on the description given by the victims, ...Read More >
Pune: State govt had ordered an inquiry into the delay in issuing a work order for a new bridge over the Indrayani river at Kund Mala in Pune district despite funds being approved 11 months ago, public works department minister Shivendraraje Bhosale told both houses of the legislature on Tuesday.Bhosale said that a three-member committee led by a secretary-rank officer would submit the inquiry report within two weeks, and based on that, govt would act against the officials found responsible for ...Read More >
Pune, Jun 2 (PTI) Police have released the sketch of one of the two men accused of robbing women passengers of their gold ornaments and sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl after the car they were travelling in halted on the roadside in Pune district, an official said on Wednesday. The shocking incident took place at around 4.15 am on Monday on a highway near Bhigwan in Daund town when a group of people was travelling in a car to the temple town of Pandharpur in Solapur district, according to ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 2 (PTI) Maharashtra recorded 16 new coronavirus positive cases on Wednesday, taking the overall infection count in the state to 2,533, the health department said. Of them, four cases each were reported in Pune and Nagpur cities, three in Mumbai, two in rural parts of Pune district, one each in Thane city, Chandrapur and Pimpri Chinchwad near Pune. Mumbai has reported 998 cases so far, including 551 in June and six in July. The health department has conducted 31,238 tests across th ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 2 (PTI) Nationalist Congress Party (SP) leader and former Maharashtra MLA Apoorv Hiray on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) along with hundreds of his supporters, saying he was impressed by the saffron outfit's development-oriented vision. Hiray formally entered the BJP at the party's state headquarters in Mumbai in the presence of newly-elected Maharashtra BJP president Ravindra Chavan and senior minister Chandrakant Patil. The induction of the former NCP (SP) MLA, ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 2 (PTI) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday issued an orange alert for most parts of the Konkan region as well as mountainous road sections in western Maharashtra, predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places. In its 'District Forecast and Warning for next 5 Days' issued in the afternoon, the meteorological office also sounded a red alert of heavy to very heavy rainfall for a few places in the 'ghat' (mountainous passes) areas in Pune district, and e ...Read More >
Pune, Jul 1 (PTI) Police probing the case of sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl and robbery in Pune's Daund on Tuesday found that the assailants on a motorcycle allegedly threw red chilli powder into the car occupants' eyes to impair their vision before committing the other crimes. The teenage girl was sexually assaulted and three women were robbed of gold ornaments by two motorbike-borne unidentified persons when the victims were travelling in a car in the wee hours of Monday on a highway in ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Congress on Tuesday received a major setback after party MP Rahul Gandhi's close confidant and former legislator Kunal Patil from Dhule Rural, Maharashtra, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Revenue Minister and party's state unit chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule and working president Ravindra Chavan. Patil, the son of veteran Congress leader Rohidas Patil, represented Dhule (Rural) after winning from the constituency in the 2014 elections. Howeve ...Read More >
Pune: A 17-year-old girl travelling in a car was allegedly sexually assaulted and three other women occupants robbed of gold jewellery by two motorbike-borne unidentified persons on a highway in Maharashtra's Pune district, police said. The incident took place around 4.15 am on Monday near Bhigwan on the highway in Daund area when the car in which the victims were travelling halted after the driver wanted to answer nature's call, a police official said. There were seven persons in the car -- t ...Read More >
Srinagar- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday inaugurated a buyer-seller meet here to empower local artisans and boost the economy. "The Chief Minister inaugurated the Buyer-Seller Meet at SKICC today. The initiative aims to empower artisans and strengthen the local economy by creating direct market linkages and promoting local products. The meet is hosting 15 international and 30 national buyers," Omar posted on his official X handle. Talking to reporters later, Omar said the effectiveness ...Read More >
Pune: The wait since May 13 when SSC results were announced is finally over for lakhs of students who began their admissions to First Year Junior College (FYJC) on Monday. The state education department released the allotment list on Saturday and set July 7 as the last date to confirm admissions. In the Pune district, 62,812 students were given allotments in the first centralised admission round, against a vacancy of over 2,012 seats in junior colleges.Most students said the process is smooth bu ...Read More >
Maharashtra will use special camera drones (LiDAR drones) to check mining and make more money. Following the government conncern over losing money because companies dig up more soil and stone than they report. These drones will accurately measure what's being dug Maharashtra Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule announced on Saturday that the state government intends to utilise advanced LiDAR-based drone technology to monitor mining activities and boost revenue. This initiative will commence with a ...Read More >
Kolhapur: While the NCP (SP) has declared support to the July 5 protest march against the "imposition of Hindi," the party's chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said celebrities such as cricketer Sachin Tendulkar should not be insisted upon to express their views on making Hindi a must in the Maharashtra school curriculum. "Ask Sachin about cricket; don't force him to take a stand on Hindi imposition," he said.Pawar was responding to Raj Thackeray's statement on Thursday that he wanted to see who -- es ...Read More >
Pune: Monsoon activity picked up marginally across the district on Friday, as heavy to very heavy rainfall was recorded in several ghat areas, including Shirgaon, Ambona, Davdi, Dongerwadi, Lonavla, Mulshi, Walwhan and Tamhini. Shirgaon recorded the highest rainfall at 160mm in the 24 hours ending at 8.30am on Friday, qualifying as very heavy rainfall. Ambona followed with 154mm, while Davdi registered 127mm rain. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), moderate rainfall is class ...Read More >
Pune: An outing in Lonavla for a group of daily wage workers from Pimpri Chinchwad turned tragic on Sunday when two of them drowned in the backwaters of Bhushi dam. Rescuers retrieved the bodies of Sahil Shaikh (18) and Mohammed Jamal (21). The youths were from Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh, and were living in Thergaon.M B Mhetre, an investigating officer from the Lonavla City police, told TOI that a large number of revellers came to Lonavla for a day's outing as it was a Sunday in the monsoon seaso ...Read More >
Mumbai, June 6 (UNI) Maharashtra recorded 98 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, with Mumbai and Pune Municipal Corporation reporting 34 cases each. Other affected areas include Thane Municipal Corporation (4), Vasai Virar (1), Kalyan Dombivli (2), Pune district (4), Pimpri Chinchwad (10), Satara (1), Sangli (3), and Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar (1). All patients are currently receiving treatment, and authorities have urged the public to remain calm. In Navi Mumbai, four new infections wer ...Read More >
Mumbai: On Thursday, the city added 34 new Covid-19 cases, taking the total since May to 569. There have been four Covid-19-linked deaths in the city since, and three more in MMR. All had pre-existing health conditions.In all, the state reported 98 Covid-19 cases on the same day. There were four in Thane, two in Kalyan, one in Vasai-Virar, four in Pune district, 10 in Pune city, one each in Satara, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district and Nagpur, and three in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Municipal Co ...Read More >
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