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NEW DELHI: More than 3,000 cases of dengue and one death due to the vector-borne disease have been recorded in the national capital Delhi in the past six months, according to official data shared by the MCD in the House on Tuesday. In the data shared in a written response, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) also said the number of cases recorded in September was the "highest" in the last four...

In an ambitious vision for a cyclist's haven in Mumbai, six years ago city planners dreamt of nearly 70km of interconnected cycle tracks, crisscrossing the bustling metropolis from Mulund to Vile Parle, and from Ghatkopar to Bandra. This visionary project was to liberate cyclists from their perilous everyday dance with chaotic and dangerous traffic. But less than 20km of disjointed tracks have...

NEW DELHI: The commissioning of the Yashobhoomi conference complex at Dwarka will take place in October. A Korean operator has been appointed on a revenue-sharing model to manage the exhibition halls and convention centre, said officials. The first phase of the project was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi last Sunday.Over 100 exhibitions and more than 100 conventions have been planned at Yashobhoomi in...

NEW DELHI: In a big move for women's empowerment, the Narendra Modi government is set to table a constitutional amendment bill in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday for reserving one-third of seats in Parliament and state legislatures across the country.The decision, pushed by the Prime Minister and cleared by the Union Cabinet at a meeting on Monday evening, aims to secure passage of the bill in the two Houses...

THANE: A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for abducting a housewife and her child and extorting money from her husband seven years ago. In her order on Wednesday, additional sessions judge Rachna Tehra, in Maharashtra's Thane district, imposed a fine of Rs 500 on convict Manikandan Selvaraj Nadar, a resident of Diva.The court also acquitted another accused in...

THANE: Nineteen years after a homemaker was raped, a rickshaw driver has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) by the district court in Thane. Additional Sessions Judge Dr Rachna R Tehra convicted the accused Ramashankar Shukla, 52, and imposed a fine of Rs 5,500. Prosecutor EB Dhamal, informed the court that the victim lived in Nerul in Navi Mumbai and the accused also resided in...

THANE: A decade after Adarsh Tower inside Lucky Compound in Shil-Daighar near Mumbra crashed like a pack of cards, claiming 74 lives and maiming 62 others on April 4, 2013, trial in the unauthorised construction is moving at a snail's pace with only 56 of the over 400 witnesses being examined so far. For those who survived, getting justice seems to be taking longer than expected. The prosecution,...

KOLKATA: Some of the private schools in the city, which admitted children only when they turned four, and in some cases five, have brought down the admission age cut-off to three years to align with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Don Bosco Park Circus has introduced lower kindergarten (LKG), where children of four years have been taken in for the new session starting April. The school will...

MUMBAI: Four years after its crash claiming seven lives, the reconstructed Himalaya foot overbridge near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) in south Mumbai opened for the public on Thursday.On March 14, 2019, a part of the bridge connecting the north end of the CSMT railway station to Badruddin Tayabji Lane collapsed onto the D N Road below. Subsequently, a traffic signal was installed on...

THANE: Aggrieved by a police constable for checking his car, a man abducted and assaulted the on duty constable in 2017 has been convicted and sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment by the Thane sessions court. The accused Ali Rajak Pathan, was convicted by additional sessions judge Rachna R Tehrawho also imposed a fine of Rs 1500. Two other accomplices of the accused identified as Rahul Rama...