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Cool mornings persist in city; aqi 'moderate' at 136 on mon

Mumbai, Dec. 30 -- The city woke to another hazy morning on Monday as the air quality index (AQI) stood at 136 despite cool, seasonally normal temperatures, the IMD said. P4 Published by HT Digital C... Read More


In BMC poll pact, BJP gets 137 seats; 90 for Shiv Sena

MUMBAI, Dec. 30 -- After protracted parleys over seat sharing for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election, over the last few weeks, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena arrived... Read More


Erigaisi stuns Carlsen to share 3-way lead

India, Dec. 30 -- Top Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi on Monday defeated World Number 1 Magnus Carlsen with the black pieces in the ongoing World Blitz Championship. The 22-year-old relied on his qu... Read More


IIT-K student dies by suicide in hostel

India, Dec. 30 -- A fourth-year BTech student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, died allegedly by suicide in his hostel room on Monday, police said. This is the fourth case of alleged s... Read More


1 dead as express train catches fire in Andhra

India, Dec. 30 -- A 70-year-old man was charred to death after two bogies of the Tatanagar-Ernakulam Express caught fire in Duvvada in Andhra Pradesh's Anakapalli district on Monday, police said. Poli... Read More


Rush to file nominations as deadline looms

MUMBAI, Dec. 30 -- Four former mayors, Vishakha Raut, Shraddha Jadhav, Milind Vaidya and Kishori Pednekar (all Shiv Sena-UBT); former opposition leader in the BMC, Ravi Raja, who quit the Congress to ... Read More


78-year-old dead after being hit by school bus

India, Dec. 30 -- "The police are not giving us the name of the owner of the school bus that hit my mother," said Chetan Bolar. Usha Bolar, 78, an Andheri east resident, was waiting for an autoricksha... Read More


Drunk jawan robs family of its mother

India, Dec. 30 -- "A family has lost its mother due to a reckless, drunk jawan. If a jawan can be so irresponsible, what can we expect from civilians," asks Jawed Sheikh, whose 55-year-old sister died... Read More


Speeding truck hits bike, 1 dead

India, Dec. 30 -- "It's been three months and I'm still trying to get details on the dumper driver, who killed my brother," said a distraught 24-year-old Ehsaan Shaikh. His brother, Mohammed Irfan, 31... Read More


Hit-and-run kills salon employee

India, Dec. 30 -- A woman was killed and a man seriously injured when a truck slammed their motorcycle on Ghodbunder Road in Waghbil on October 19. The hit-and-run was the 19th fatality reported this ... Read More