Новости за 27.02.2016

Far from dying out, the face-off between the government and JNU is set to take another turn from Monday with the university’s students’ union appealing to all students to boycott classes and sit on protest at the administration block

The residents of 34 villages have urged the state government to take a call on their merger with the Pune municipal limits fast.

Peter Brook’s Battlefield On Mumbai’s Stage

The rising temperature has signaled the onset of summer, prompting a significant increase in deployment of water tankers in rural areas of the four districts in the Pune revenue division.

Peter Brook’s Battlefield On Mumbai’s Stage

The areas facing shortage of drinking water in the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) may soon have water ATMs.

Glitz and glamour marked the countdown to Times Women's Drive, the biggest all-women car drive in the country.

February 9 was not the first time when Anirban Bhattacharya, an accused in the JNU sedition case, had allegedly violated the university administration’s order

The citizens of Chinchwad would celebrate the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj from March 21 to 26.

With the impetus coming from his son Umar Khalid’s detention by the police on charges of sedition, Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas and his Welfare Party of India will launch a campaign next week to build awareness against what it describes as a “state of undeclared Emergency” in the country

A special Delhi court on Saturday sent JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya to a further two-day police custody

The Opposition raised a din at the very outset of the concluding day of the assembly session on Saturday demanding a statement from education minister Partha Chatterjee over the attack on SFI-backed students on fast at Burdwan University. They demanded Chatterjee's resignation when the minister didn't come up with a statement.

Delhi Police on Saturday questioned JNU student Ashutosh Kumar, third to be called in, for close to eight hours, in connection with his role in the Afzal Guru event organised on February 9

A senior sales executive of a jewellery firm was arrested by the LT Marg police for duping his employer of 13 kg gold worth Rs 3.85 crore

You may soon find a dedicated cycling track on Carter Road in Bandra if the proposal of a local corporator becomes a reality. Bandra corporator from H-West ward, Asif Zakaria, has written to BMC commissioner Ajoy Mehta proposing the creation of a 2m wide dedicated cycling lane on either side of Carter Road to be executed from his municipal councillor fund.

The Bidhannagar municipal corporation presented its first budget on Saturday, setting a target of total earning of Rs 492 crore in the next financial year, 2016-2017.

Industrialist Sunjay Kapur and his mother Rani may be summoned by Khar police to record statements in a case of harassment filed against the duo by his estranged wife, actor Karisma Kapoor. Officials said both parties will be heard and arrests won’t be made till a preliminary probe is completed.

Excerpts from Kanhaiya's statement before a panel of Supreme Court lawyers.Questions were posed by more than one lawyer.

The Mumbai Fire Brigade, during an inspection of the Royal Opera House, stumbled upon a fire pump and a sprinkler system which officials said was an absolute rarity. During the pre-Independence era, no structures had such fire pumps in place and therefore the force has asked that these be restored the way it was.

A fire broke out at 9.47 pm at Deonar dumping ground towards the Ghatkopar Mankhurd Link Road side. Fire fighting was in progress, said BMC disaster management officials.

The Thane skyline is set for a complete makeover after the much-awaited cluster redevelopment plan — promising a clutch of high-rise buildings, swanky towers, wide roads and more green spaces — was given a green signal by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, it is learnt.

Terming the present time as the "toughest" for the university, historian Mridula Mukherjee also warned that if Jawaharlal Nehru University could not stand up to attacks on civil liberty despite international, national and media support, then the opposition "has already won the battle"

Two child marriages, one scheduled to be held on Monday and another on Friday, were stopped in West Midnapore's Salboni following intervention by BDO Pushpal Sarkar on Saturday.

Trinamool MP Saugata Roy and MLA Sadhan Pande may have refuted allegations that a faction fight cost the life of a party leader at Baguiati and led to a clash at Maheshtala, but top police sources have gone on the record, saying the arrested in both the cases were Trinamool workers, apparently disgruntled over distribution of funds

On Saturday morning, when parents of JNU PhD scholar Umar Khalid met him in police custody, they carried home-cooked biriyani and some clothes for their son