Mumbai’s water reserves remain critically low despite heavy overnight showers, MUMBAI: Even as Mumbai was battered by intense overnight monsoon showers between June 23-24, the city’s seven lakes, which supply drinking water, have shown little improvement in storage levels, showing a stark mismatch between urban rainfall and catchment inflows.As of 6am on Wednesday, total water…
Surat: Pre-monsoon showers lashed parts of Surat city and district on Friday, providing much-needed relief from the sweltering heat and humidity that gripped the region over the past several days. While the city received light to moderate rainfall, several talukas in the district recorded significant precipitation.Umarpada received the highest rainfall at 72 mm, followed by…
Pune: The Sangvi police, on Sunday, arrested a 52-year-old woman on the charge of bludgeoning her 30-year-old nephew to death. The murder occurred at Pimple Gurav in the early hours of Sunday. Police said the murder was the fallout of a property dispute.Inspector Amol Nandekar of the Sangvi police said the accused works with a…
Cops compared CCTV footage and gathered intelligence, which pointed to the accused, who was posted at the Air Force station in Jamnagar at the time the incidents were reported. AHMEDABAD: Two years after an armed robbery at a jewellery shop in Manek Chowk, city police arrested an Indian Air Force (IAF) corporal who allegedly carried…
Chinese proverb – Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still The new language app you downloaded sits untouched on your phone. The gym membership you bought in January has been used twice. The novel you started writing is still stuck on page one. You tell yourself you’ll get to it…
Manolo Marquez won the Super Cup in successive seasons, besides the Bandodkar Memorial Trophy which saw participation of two teams from Argentina and Australia Panaji: FC Goa have started the hunt for a new coach and conducted interviews with at least two potential candidates in the last 48 hours after realising that convincing Manolo Marquez…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: All eyes will be on 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi when India take on Ireland in the first T20I of the two-match series in Belfast on Friday.The teenage batting sensation has become one of the biggest talking points in world cricket, with fans eagerly waiting to see if he will make…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has upheld compensation for a minor who was permanently disabled due to electrocution while trying to retrieve a kite from an electric pole. The court discarded the power distribution company’s argument about the child’s negligence and asserted that “young children are deemed entirely incapable of negligence”.This case involved Jayendrasinh Jadeja,…
Kolkata: A 39-year-old central government employee, Emon Roy, died after falling from the balcony-cum-refuge area of a commercial building in DJ Block, Salt Lake, on Friday evening.Police said Roy, a resident of Graham Road in Regent Park, fell from the balcony of her workplace around 5 pm. She was taken to Bidhannagar Sub-Divisional Hospital, where…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar/Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday demanded that the six rebel MPs from his party be disqualified, warning the Lok Sabha Speaker that failure to act would amount to violating the Constitution.Addressing rallies in Parbhani and Dharashiv, Thackeray said his party has already written to Speaker Om Birla seeking action. “The…
