Vasco: The Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC), in a special meeting on Friday, decided to request the Mormugao Port Authority (MPA) to lease to the council a portion of its land at the Headland-Sada junction where the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj has been illegally erected.The Bombay high court recently ordered the removal of the statue…
Ahmedabad: The city’s heritage is seeing a rare double revival. As the civic body restores Ellis Bridge into the new avatar of a pedestrian pathway, a few streets away in the Walled City, its maker’s home is being brought back to life after more than a century. Together, they resurrect a piece of the city’s…
Panchkula: Despite the traffic police issuing a large number of challans in Panchkula, recovery of fines remains abysmally low, raising concerns over the effectiveness of enforcement measures.Traffic police data shows that challans worth Rs 2.95 crore were issued in the first three months of this year alone, but only Rs 2.02 lakh has been deposited…
Pune: The Wakad police on Thursday arrested an engineering student (19) of a city-based private college for trying to blackmail a traffic constable and demanding Rs 50,000 on Tuesday during a routine check.Machhindra Baramate, the constable (Wakad traffic division), lodged a complaint. The Wakad police on Thursday arrested the accused from Sambhajinagar and registered a…
Jaisalmer: A fire broke out at a tubewell and engulfed three huts, near Chhod village in Jaisalmer district Friday.The blaze destroyed three huts belonging to nearby farmer Kishanaram. Approximately Rs 6.50 lakh in cash and 15-20 tola of gold belonging Kishanaram were gutted in fire. The fire brigade doused the fire after about one hour.Witnesses…
NEW DELHI: Even after nearly all Indian medical students returned from Iran following the outbreak of war, one 22-year-old youth from Kashmir chose to stay back, saying he could not leave the country “when it is in distress”. Now living alone in a nine-storey hostel in Ahvaz after the last remaining Indian students left, Asif…
Clavicular (Image Via Getty) Clavicular is once again in the spotlight, but this time the situation feels more serious than just online drama. After a suspected overdose earlier this week in Miami, his father, Ken Peters, flew in from New Jersey hoping to talk to his son face-to-face. The plan was simple. He wanted to…
MUMBAI: UltraTech Cement will cross 200 million tonnes of capacity after commissioning three grinding units totalling 8.7 million tonnes on Friday, cementing the Aditya Birla Group company’s position as the world’s largest cement producer outside China, with capacity nearly double that of the United States and exceeding the whole of the European Union. The milestone…
Martha Stewart couldn’t be more thrilled about Cate Blanchett starring as her in the forthcoming biopic, ‘Good Thing.’ With its foundation in Stewart’s legendary catchphrase, the film is set to explore her inspiring ascent to fame. At the age of 84, Stewart confidently asserts that Blanchett is the ideal representation of her story, commending the…
Jasprit Bumrah (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: Mumbai Indians star pacer Jasprit Bumrah is going through an uncharacteristic lean patch in IPL 2026. Known for troubling the best batters in the world, Bumrah has been taken apart this season, with little going his way. In five matches so far, he has conceded 164 runs without…
