Pune: Residents of several housing societies in Undri, Mohammadwadi and NIBM Annexe continue to pay water tax without receiving a single drop of municipal supply, even as their dependence on private tanker operators rises and become costlier.Following a tanker strike that disrupted supply on Wednesday and exposed the area’s vulnerability, operators have now raised water…
Ketan Agarwal (R), Siya Goyal (C), Chetan Chaudhary (L) PUNE: A fear of family humiliation allegedly stopped Siya Goyal from walking away from her engagement with Ketan Agarwal and eloping with her partner Chetan Chaudhary, police said, claiming this became the reason behind the murder plot.“During the interrogation, Chetan was asked why they did not…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has granted regular bail to a woman who was behind bars with her young child after being arrested for allegedly peddling 72g of mephedrone, a commercial quantity.The accused, Parvinbanu Kureshi, was arrested in connection with an FIR registered with Karanj police in 2024, and contraband was recovered from her. She…
New Delhi: CBI has arrested an assistant commissioner of the food and supply department for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 in connection with the allotment of ration cards.The case was registered on May 20 on a complaint alleging that the officer had demanded Rs 100 per ration card for the allotment of 475…
Justice Mohammed Shaffiq made the query, on a plea moved by P Vadivelu, a daily-wage labourer from Tondiarpet, seeking ₹50 lakh compensation for the death of his 14-year-old daughter Yuvasree in a stampede during a relief distribution program organised by AIADMK at R K Nagar, in Dec 2023 Chennai: Can the state govt be directed…
Pune: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said unease has crept in among investors and citizens after PM Narendra Modi‘s appeal on the judicious use of resources that may have a long-lasting impact. Pawar urged the PM to convene an all-party meeting to discuss the state of the economy.On Sunday, Modi appealed to citizens…
Addressing an event commemorating Syama Prasad Mookerjee at Muralidhar Sen Lane on Monday, Bhattacharya had said: “Syama Prasad Mookerjee was delivering a speech at Mohammad Ali Park when Forward Bloc goons pelted stones at him, leaving him bleeding. Had Mookerjee made any statement to incite the crowd, Forward Bloc members wouldn’t have survived that day….
Ahmedabad: Pragnesh Mehta (name changed), an 18-year-old medical aspirant who had travelled to Manali-Dehradun with his friends to celebrate completion of the NEET-UG exam, has been put on antidepressants by a psychiatrist after he suffered a mental breakdown following the cancellation of the test.“He has scored 90% marks in Class 12 board exams and was…
Gujarat’s fish production for 2024-25 stood at 10.42 lakh metric tonnes Gujarat has never been known for its appetite for fish. The state catches it for everybody else. The longest coastline in India sends almost its entire marine harvest into export — frozen, packed, shipped out to China, Japan, US, Europe and Southeast Asia. Fish…
Bengaluru: Calling state govt’s revision of salaries of employees of road transport corporations ‘unilateral’ and ‘unacceptable,’ the joint action committee of trade unions of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation called for an indefinite bus strike from May 20 across the state.Office-bearers of the joint action committee said the govt order, revising salary by 12.5% with…
