awareness drive to start in Konkan division

Thane (PTI): Konkan division authorities have started a 'copy mukt' awareness drive to curb cheating during the SSC and HSC exams to be held in Maharashtra in February and March, an official said on Saturday.

Launching the drive on Friday, Mahendra Kalyankar, the Divisional Commissioner of Konkan region said, apart from the awareness drive involving stu - dents, parents, teachers and the management of institutions, strict measures will be taken at exam centres to curb copying. sured the remaining money will be paid before 12:00 am. However, Khan demanded the remaining amount on the spot, which led to a scuffle between them, he said. The pair gave Khan’s

According to the official, Khan insisted that they pay immediately, which caused a fight between them. During the fight, one of the accused pulled out a knife and stabbed Khan in his chest, the official said.

Nazim Iftikar Khan was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead before admission, he said.

Two flung into air, ram into tree after bike crash

Mumbai (PTI): Two youths lost their lives after they were tossed up in the air and crashed into a coconut tree when their speeding two-wheeler hit a divider in suburban Malad in the early hours of Saturday, an official said.

According to the official from Bangur Nagar police station, Malwani residents Aamir Shaikh (25) and Salim Sayyed (26) were on a Bajaj Pulsar when they met with

BEST bus catches fire in Andheri area of Mumbai, passengers safe

Mumbai (PTI): A civicrun Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) bus caught fire in Andheri on Saturday afternoon but all its passengers were safe, an official said. The bus caught fire at Chakala junction on the Western Express Highway in Andheri East around 3.15 pm.

After the police re- ceived the call, fire brigade vehicles arrived and extinguished the fire in 15 minutes, the civic official said. Passengers safely got down from the bus as soon as the fire was noticed. “No passengers sustained any injury,” the official said. The cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained. According to BEST officials, the bus had been taken on a wet lease. Another BEST bus caught fire in the city in January. Nobody had been injured in that incident as well.