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MUMBAI: Seven people were trapped in an elevator in the Bombay High Court building on Monday, a fire brigade official said. The fire brigade received an alert about people being trapped in one of the elevators in the high court premises around 4.30 pm, he said. However, staff from the lift maintenance company managed to rescue all the seven people within 15-20 minutes, the official said.(With PTI...

KOLKATA: One of the city's oldest single screen theatres, Intally Talkies, is permanently closing down. Tucked away on Dr Suresh Sarkar Road, the theatre used to draw a sizeable crowd for Hindi releases. However, footfall declined with time and the last nail on the coffin was the pandemic. The cinema never recovered from the Covid blow. Recently, its management informed the Eastern India Motion Pictures...

COIMBATORE: The Podanur police in Coimbatore city have registered an FIR against unidentified people for sending obscene text and voice messages to the customer care mobile numbers of the City Meter Auto Association.Three woman employees are working at the association’s customer care centre in Umar Nagar near Podanur. Some unidentified people were sending obscene text and voice messages to the...

GURGAON: The first quarter (Q1) of 2023 has recorded an uptick in new launches of residential units in the National Capital Region (NCR), according to the latest research report by real estate consultants Anarock. There has, however, been a slight decrease in sales.NCR cities altogether added around 12,450 new units in Q1 2023, a yearly rise of 34% compared to the same period last year (9,300). Around...

SURAT: Political temperature is high in the Diamond City as top national and state-level Congress leaders are reaching the city on Monday where Rahul Gandhi is to file an appeal in sessions court to challenge his conviction by a court of chief judicial magistrate and two years imprisonment in defamation case. Meanwhile, heavy police bandobast has been installed at city airport, district and sessions...

THANE: Chief minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday said that he along with other Shiv Sena leaders will visit Ayodhya on April 9 and offer prayers at the temple there.Shinde said they plan to construct a Maharashtra Sadan in Uttar Pradesh.While addressing the media, at the Anand Ashram, the place where he grew politically under the guidance of his mentor Anand Dighe, the CM said that he will also perform...

KOLKATA: A missed call scam involving an international pay-per-call number, that has been in existence since 2018, seems to have reared its head again in the country with a couple of netizens receiving such calls.However, even as no police complaint has been filed, cyber experts in the city have warned users to be wary about responding to calls from odd numbers.It's known as Madagascar scam, where calls...

SALEM/ CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami said chief minister M K Stalin's attempts to scuttle the growth of his party through false cases would fail and the opposition party would bounce back to power.Addressing the party cadres on Sunday at Attur in Salem, on his maiden visit to hometown Salem after being elected as the party general secretary, EPS said that there was a high...

NEW DELHI: For the second consecutive day, Delhi recorded more than 400 cases of Covid-19. On Sunday, the national capital registered 429 new cases and another fatality owing to the virus. As per the daily health bulletin, the positivity rate was 16.09%, a jump of around 2% from Saturday.Sunday's figure came from 2,667 samples. According to the state government, the primary cause of the death was "not...

MUMBAI: In a major shot in the arm for the city's security agencies, China has given its green signal to extradite Prasad Pujari - one of the last few gangsters operating from foreign shores and wanted in several cases of extortion, threat to life and murder- and has asked the Government of India to send its extradition request in Mandarin.The Chinese authorities gave its approval to the Ministry of...