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MUMBAI: A senior citizen from Girgaon in south Mumbai has been booked for indulging in animal cruelty. The accused, Chandrakant Ketkar (72), used to hit cats at his locality in Khadilkar Road with a stick embedded with sharp nails, thereby wounding the local area cats.Animal activist Sneha Visaria of Just Smile Charitable Trust told TOI: "We had got specific information that an old man armed with sharp...

PUNE: Four persons died on the spot when the compact SUV they were travelling in first hit a median before veering to the extreme left to crash into a stationary truck near the Urse toll post around 40km from Pune on the Pune-Mumbai expressway on Thursday evening.The Pune-bound traffic on the expressway disrupted for some time after the accident."The victims included architect Mauli Babasaheb Dhumal...

NEW YORK: A 47-year-old Indian-American data analyst was killed on the spot after being hit by a bus at Boston's international airport where he had gone to pick up a friend, according to a media report. Vishwachand Kolla, originally from Andhra Pradesh, was an employee of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company. He was at the Logan International Airport, Boston, to pick up a visiting musician from the airport...

THANE: Congress leader Nana Patole has accused the state government to failing to work in a democratic manner and said they would soon approach governor Ramesh Bais and apprise him of the situation in the state.Patole was in the city, Friday, to protest the action against party colleague Rahul Gandhi. “The action reflects the height of dictatorship in our country. Gandhi hasn’t uttered any...