New Delhi: Police have busted a fake end-of-life vehicle (ELV) removal racket in which a former employee of an authorised vehicle scrapping agency allegedly posed as an MCD official and used forged removal orders to steal old two-wheelers from across the city.Adnan Saifi (24), a resident of Tihar village, and Akram (43), a scrap dealer…
Mumbai: Two MBA students arrested in connection with the suspected drug overdose case at a music concert in Goregaon in April, which left two of their batchmates dead, told fellow students over a WhatsApp group that “pills” would be available at the concert, the chargesheet has revealed. A 3,500-page-long chargesheet was filed before a magistrate…
Bengaluru: The wait for Bengaluru’s long-pending civic body elections is set to get longer. Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) has moved the Supreme Court, seeking a four-month deferment of polls to the city’s five corporations covering 369 civic wards, citing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across Karnataka.The application, filed by the GBA…
Chennai: Three days after TOI reported on the pitiable condition of the playground at Govt Ambedkar Higher Secondary School, which was littered with garbage, including empty liquor bottles, construction debris, and wet and dry waste, the Greater Chennai Corporation cleared the premises by Thursday.The school, located on Gandhi Irwin Road, adjoining the Buckingham Canal, falls…
Woman farmer wins 18-year fight against illegal mining near Hyderabad; NGT orders action Hyderabad: A woman farmer from a village near the Outer Ring Road (ORR) has secured relief after an 18-year legal battle against illegal mining and industrial pollution, with the National Green Tribunal taking note of an assessment of ₹2.8 lakh for crop…
Gurgaon: A two-year-old girl was allegedly slapped, pushed and subjected to physical and mental abuse by a teacher at a preschool daycare centre in Chakkarpur, prompting police to register a case after CCTV footage of the incident came to light.According to police, the girl’s mother, a resident of Sector 28, filed a complaint stating that…
Kolkata: The fresh tension between the US and Iran has left travellers and members of the travel trade industry in a bind.The sharp jump in airfares triggered by rising aviation fuel prices and the continuing geopolitical tensions in West Asia are beginning to weigh on outbound travel from Kolkata, with even traditionally affordable short-haul destinations…
Ghaziabad: The sessions court sentenced a Niwari resident, Sunil alias Bablu, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh for killing his father and brother over land in Dec 2018.The case is based on an FIR registered under Section 302 of the IPC by Sudha, wife of the deceased, Subhash. The FIR…
Margao: Over a year after state govt rolled out the Goa State Amritkal Agriculture Policy, 2025 (GSAAP-2025), stakeholders say implementation on the ground remains slow, with progressive farmers and agro-entrepreneurs calling for speedier execution and fine-tuning.TOI had repeatedly flagged Goa’s long-standing absence of a comprehensive agriculture policy. Reports had pointed out that without a well-designed…
Varanasi: Tension spread in Kuru village under the jurisdiction of Kapsethi police station in Varanasi on Friday after a statue of Bharat Ratna Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar was damaged for the second time in 15 days.The statue, located near the Polytechnic, had also been vandalised earlier, leading to the registration of an FIR on June 25.Kapsethi…
