Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said training camps and online/digital process have helped to make the Haj process transparent and help pilgrims.

“Sweety has been very well trained by her previous owners. Initially, she had some skin problems. But now it has cured and her fur is smooth,” Majumder said.

Purpose is to place monetary value on services — absorption of carbon dioxide, cleansing oxygen and supplying water

Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights' chairman Pravin Ghuge talks to the Indian Express about a range of child rights issues.

According to police, Sonu and his friend were standing by the side of the road in west Vinod Nagar when the bus, heading towards Punjabi Bagh, hit him. Police said his friend and passersby shouted out and asked the driver to stop, but he drove on and dragged Sonu for a few metres. A

According to reports, multiple shots were fired and Sawant was rushed to the Shatabdi hospital.

The financial allocations with planned schemes have yielded positive results in at least three core sectors namely — Rural infrastructure, agriculture and irrigation.

With the yoga routine consisting of multiple breathing and stretching exercises that focus on the acupressure points and relieving any joint pain, the members in the club claim their personal lives have improved.

A resident of the same building claimed to have witnessed the girl being raped by the accused in the staircase on Wednesday. He informed the girl’s parents.

Officials said that by building more boundary walls across tracks and increasing the height of platforms to reduce the falling between gap, the railways have been able to restrict the falls from trains.

While the dropboxes were vandalised, the #IITBWomenSpeak campaign, started along the lines of #MeToo, led to a dialogue on casual sexism on campus.

S K Das allegedly asked for bribe from a Delhi-based construction firm that had sought a license to engage contract labourers for the construction of a boat repair shed in Colaba from the Chief Labour Commissioner’s office

Twenty-nine-year-old woman injured; residents blame Metro construction work

This year, Khan had sought to submit a new surety in place of the earlier one and submitted the name of his bodyguard Gurmeet Singh Jolly, also known as Shera.

Asked about Prajapati’s background as a criminal, the witness told the court that he had found out while interrogating Prajapati in 2005 that he had committed serious crimes, including firing at a person in the presence of policemen.

On the basis of the findings, the Fadnavis government had said it would cap the maximum FSI in the suburbs for such projects to 3, with the minimum size of a cluster being 6,000 square meter.

“There is an urgent need to develop national ART surveillance system in India, just like the one at the Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta. They record each pregnancy through IVF and babies born out of it,” Dr Anushree Patil of the NIRRH told The Indian Express.

The demand for power in Maharashtra remains on the higher side during April and May. The highest demand is witnessed in the second week of April. The trend usually sustains until middle of May.

“Is it right for the Prime Minister to speak on rape cases in a foreign country? Why should a picture be painted of India as witnessing rise in corruption and rape cases and as an unsafe country?” the party asked.

“The fire was confined to two to three galas in the showroom and the area was full of smoke. This was why it took two hours to control the fire,” said Prabhat Rahangdale, chief fire officer of Mumbai Fire Brigade.

“Bio-mining has happened on a small scale in cities like Bangalore, Triambakeshwar and Nandurbar in India and in South Korea, Germany and USA. This project on 24 hectares would be the largest in the world,” said Dr Sanjay Mukherjee, Additional Municipal Commissioner (Projects).

An officer said the incident took place on Monday when the main accused, Vivek Joshi (25), who runs a local newspaper, met the doctor, along with a pregnant woman, who he claimed was his wife.

Among the risks faced by labourers during the construction of the 33.5-km underground Metro are external environmental risks such as fire or explosion, operations-related risks such as exposure to high decibel sounds and equipment failure risks such as loss of lighting, communication or ventilation.

Meanwhile, the Smart Commute Foundation, a cycling advocacy group, launched a cycling plan for Mumbai on Friday evenings. The foundation emphasised on road designs for all kinds of users, not only for automobiles.