Shailesh Jain

Disturbed over loss in future trading business and in heavy debt, a 28-year-old city-based businessman reportedly committed suicide by consuming poison in a hotel of neighbouring Ujjain on Thursday.

Times News Network Medicine shops in the city will remain shut on Friday to protest the new National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy (NPPP).

A two-day conference on Information Technology (IT) will begin at Prestige Institute of Management and Research on Friday.

A vaccination program, meant to protect pregnant women and their unborn children from the disease tetanus, is struggling in Bijnor district. So far, only about 37% of pregnant women in the district have been vaccinated.

A 35-year-old woman and her accomplice with a criminal past allegedly duped a builder by selling him a bungalow for over Rs 1 crore in Borivli using fake documents, police said on Sunday. While the woman was arrested recently, the history-sheeter cable operator, identified as Mandar Borkar, is on the run, a senior police officer said.

The state Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) nabbed two members of a gang from Karauli’s Hindaun city on Wednesday for making fake documents of the Army and government.

Abhishek, associate consultant, Capgemini, Pune shared his views on mobile applications in day-to-day life .

The City Crime Branch has recovered a diamond-studded gold bracelet worth Rs 28 lakh that con woman Sapna alias Lubna Wazir had sold to a jeweller in Andheri after taking it from another jeweller in Bandra.

A Srinagar court has ordered police to conduct a preliminary enquiry (PE) into a city resident’s complaint alleging that he was cheated of Rs 18 lakh by three persons, including Gujarat conman Kiran Patel, who was arrested last month for duping top officials in Jammu and Kashmir by posing as a senior PMO official and enjoying VIP protocol and Z-plus security.

The gold smuggling case linked to Afghanistan consul general Zakia Wardak led to the arrest of Mumbai jewellers. The syndicate smuggled a substantial amount of gold this year. The investigation revealed connections to SK Shah and Sons jewellers and consulate staff member Rafiullah Kelewal. The operation involved delivering gold bars for cash payments.

The presence of mind shown by an accounts manager of Arcee Electronics showroom in sector 17, Vashi, helped nab two of the three fraudsters.

A 67-year-old patient who was suffering from very frequent mini-strokes underwent the “superficial temporal artery to the middle cerebral artery (STMC)” bypass surgery, a rare procedure to save life.

Schools have launched preparations to resume classes from July 26. Several schools have completed vaccination of their staff. Schools said that they are all ready to see the students attending classes again. Missionary schools will decide on Saturday about reopening in the present circumstances.

A group of political leaders, textile traders and their supporters were booked for rioting at the Salabatpura police station after a trader, who was collecting signatures of all those who wanted to open their shops, was thrashed in the Millennium Market on Thursday.