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PUNE: A two-wheeler rider was killed and five others were injured — three of them seriously — after a Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus hurtling down the Shankar Maharaj flyover towards Swargate along the busy Pune-Satara road ploughed through vehicles waiting for green signal at the Padmavati traffic junction…

PILIBHIT: The BJP MP from Pilibhit, Firoz Varun Gandhi, is set to hold a virtual meeting with senior forest officials and the tiger experts of Global Tiger Forum as well as World Wide Fund for Nature (India) on May 2 to discuss the ways of mitigating the tiger straying and…

NEW DELHI: The three governing parties of Maharashtra – Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress – have alleged that the controversy triggered by independent Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana over recital of Hanuman Chalisa outside chief minister Uddhav Thackeray's residence is aimed…

JAIPUR: Barefoot College’s founder Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy in an interview with TOI’s Shoeb Khan shares his vision for the institute and the social sector in the next 50 years. A staunch Gandhian, Roy recalled the impact of the movement in India and the world while having a strong piece of…

PUNE: Regional Transport Office (RTO) officials enforcing the helmet mandate among government servants in the city seemed to have turned a blind eye to their own office near Sangam bridge, where a majority of two-wheeler riders can be seen entering and exiting the premises without the protective headgear throughout the…

VISAKHAPATNAM: Plans to develop the abandoned Bangladesh cargo ship MV MAA into a floating restaurant under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode near Tenneti Park may be delayed as there is not much progress in the project.

MUMBAI: The scourge of Covid-19 has struck the Cooch Behar Trophy (for U-19) again. TOI has learnt that two members of the Mumbai-Himanshu Singh (off-spinner) and physio Gaurav Chavan tested positive on Saturday, on the eve of semifinal against Maharashtra at Kolkata. The match will happen.

MUNICH: Karl Heinz Riedle is a household name for Borussia Dortmund followers. Having guided Dortmund to two back-to-back league titles in 1995 and 1996 and helped them win the Champions League in 1997, he served Bundesliga as one of its shining stars in the 1990s.

AGRA: Quashing the lower court's verdict of an acquittal, the Aligarh sessions court on Friday convicted an Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) professor for sexually harassing a foreign research scholar in 2015. The court sentenced him to one year of rigorous imprisonment. Subsequently, he was granted interim bail.

Hyderabad: Despite high court orders not to fill Yellamma Cheruvu in Kukatpally, the lake continues to shrink owing to illegal constructions, dumping of construction debris and the existing road located within its full tank level (FTL) limits.

CHENNAI: The state forest department’s spanking new headquarters built at a cost of Rs 30crore at Velachery, on a plot adjoining the Guindy National Park, breaks every rule in the department’s own book, an internal inquiry has revealed.