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The incident occurred near Kolad village in Raigad on Saturday, officials said on Monday.The incident unfolded in an area where repair work is currently underway to address the pothole-ridden conditions of the Mumbai-Goa Highway. In light of the upcoming Ganesh festival, traffic police have imposed restrictions on heavy vehicle movement along this route until the conclusion of the festival.Susheela Ravi Pawar, a resident of Rudroli village, had boarded a Panvel-Mahad bus at Wadkhal in the afternoon. During the journey, she began experiencing severe labour pains, prompting immediate concern among fellow passengers and the bus crew.Bus driver Devidas Jadhav and conductor…

“Acting upon a specific intelligence, DRI identified an import container being imported from Jebel Ali, UAE which was declared before Customs as ‘Unaccompanied Baggage for Personal Effects’, for detailed examination,” the official said.The official further stated that during examination, the container was found to be containing old statues, vintage utensils, paintings, antique furniture, and other valuable heritage goods.Some of the articles date back to the 19th century.Several of these articles were made of precious stones, gold, silver or were having gold/silver coating.”The majority of the objects seized are from the European countries, especially the UK and the Netherlands. The consignment…

The first coordination meeting will take place on September 13 at Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief Sharad Pawar’s residence.The INDIA alliance had announced a 14 member coordination committee during its third meeting in Mumbai on September 1.Besides Pawar, the coordination committee has Congress’ KC Venugopal, DMK’s TR Baalu, JMM’s Hemant Soren, Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, Trinamool Congress Abhishek Banerjee, AAP’s Raghav Chaddha, Samajwadi Party’s Javed Ali Khan, JD-U’s Lallan Singh, CPI’s D Raja, National Conference Omar Abdullah, PDP’s Mehbooba Mufti as its members.The CPI-M is yet to give name of their party leader for the committee.Sources said…

The government will organise Special Campaign 3.0 for improving Swachhata and disposal of pending references from October 2 (Gandhi Jayanti) to 31 on the lines of the Special Campaigns held in 2021 and 2022 on the same theme.“It is currently gearing up for the pinnacle of its 10-year dedication to Swacch Bharat and will unfold sanitation based initiatives during Special Campaign 3.0 in October 2023,” the Ministry in a statement said.“The upcoming Special Campaign 3.0 marks a significant milestone, coinciding with a decade of Swachhata based initiatives within the Ministry. This campaign promises to be extraordinary as the Ministry is…

Tandon lost to Scott Greg Lobban 8-11, 13-11, 11-9, 11-7. The Indian started on a good note over an opponent ranked much higher in the PSA ranking hierarchy taking the first game at 11-8.In the second and third games, Tandon had the upper hand in the initial stages taking a handsome lead but allowing his opponent to crawl back and level the scores.The second game was a closely fought one with the scores tied at 11-all but Tandon had to pay for some silly errors and hit the tin a couple of times to complicate matters for him while Lobban…

Colombo, Sep 11 (IANS) During his outstanding knock of 122 not out off just 94 balls against Pakistan in the Super Four stage of the Asia Cup at the R. Premadasa Stadium, talismanic India batter Virat Kohli completed 13,000 ODI runs, becoming the fifth player to reach the landmark in men’s ODIs.Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Sanath Jayasuriya and Mahela Jayawardene are the others before Kohli to reach the milestone. While Tendulkar took 321 innings to get to the mark, Kohli has reached the same in 267 innings, becoming the quickest to the milestone and breaking the legendary batter’s record.Ponting (341)…

New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) Indian rally ace Gaurav Gill showcased impressive stage timings in challenging conditions at the Acropolis Rally of Greece. He bounced back strongly on the final day, ending stages 13 and 14 in the 10th and 8th positions in the WRC 2 classification.While the recce helped him develop a good strategy, the weather played spoilsport from the start of the rally, throwing challenges on the go.Showing characteristic tenacity, the JK Tyre backed Gill was exceptional as he made his presence felt throughout all clean stages coupled with split times on the stages where he had breakdowns,…

Soon after late Chandy’s son Chandy Oommen was sworn in as a legislator, the Congress-led Opposition moved an adjournment motion seeking a probe into the criminal conspiracy hatched by the CPI-M against Oommen Chandy using the solar scam accused. The motion was moved by three-time legislator and Youth Congress state President Shafi Parambil who read out the media reports citing contents of the CBI report, as per which there was no merit in the allegations of the victim and it was part of a conspiracy hatched by a few from the Left with “middleman” Nandakumar who brought the “victim: before…

Biden defended the G20 statement strongly when he told a news conference in Vietnam after the summit the Russia-Ukraine war is not a “wedge” issue with most G20 nations — it was a problem with Russia and China, which had high-ranking representatives at the summit.China was represented by its Premier Li Qiang and Russia by its premier Sergei Lavrov.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a CNN programme on state of the union that it was “very important that the G20 spoke as one”.That presented a complication because Russia is part of the group.”I think, if you are on the…

Suspense and inquisitiveness over the contents was mounting since the CBI counsel last week claimed at the court that the progress report to be submitted on Monday will reveal a conspiracy that is equivalent to that of 9/11 attack on USA’s World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001 and that is why they have chosen Monday as the date for submission of the report.However, CBI counsel on Monday afternoon informed Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay that they are unable to present that report on Monday afternoon.Instead, the CBI counsel informed the court that on Tuesday the…