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Mumbai: Six days after a man ran away after hitting a 15-year-old pedestrian on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, the police have traced the accused truck driver in Punjab and arrested him on Saturday. Following the death of the victim identified as Shivam Patil, the Pelhar police registered a case against the unknown driver under sections 304A, 279, 337 of the Indian …

Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate has started scanning benami assets, firms and certain irregularities allegedly linked to the finances of a former Indian Revenue Service officer, Sachin Sawant, who was arrested in June in a disproportionate assets case. ED’s money laundering case against Sawant is based on a case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation in June 2022 on charges …

Mumbai engineer develops tags with QR codes to keep track of stray dogs

To keep track of stray dogs, Akshay Ridlan, a Mumbai-based engineer who is also a dog lover, claims to have developed collars having QR codes. Upon scanning, the QR code displays information about a particular dog, including the dog’s name, medical history and contact details of their caretakers. “Akshay Ridlan, an engineer and a dog lover from Mumbai, claims to …

Dog Code Stray Dogs Ridlan Mumbai Engineer

Mumbai: Taking inspiration from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's clarion call for an Atma Nirbhar Bharat, two final year B.Tech students pursuing Civil Engineering at IIT Bombay, launched AIR Scanner, a free-of-cost document-scanning mobile application. The AI based Reading Assistant and Document Scanner app is developed by Rohit Kumar Chaudhary and Kavin Agrawal, both students of IIT Bombay. It was then …