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MUMBAI: Several parts of Maharashtra are set to experience a change in weather on Tuesday, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting light rain and thunderstorms across several districts.Mumbai to see light Rain, thunderstormsMumbai is expected to experience light rain and thundershowers on Tuesday, with conditions marked as “very likely.” The city, which remained largely…

The hospital precinct carries a Grade II-A heritage tag MUMBAI: When municipal commissioner Ashwini Bhide visited the civic-run KEM Hospital last week, civic officials revived an old, ambitious pitch: a 42-storey hospital tower with a helipad in the sprawling Parel campus. The proposal, still on the drawing board, hinges on a crucial constraint – the…

Police probe tragic death of woman, 2 children in well (AI image used for representational purpose only) LATUR: A young mother and her two children lost their lives in a tragic incident in Latur, where a family dispute is suspected to have led to the deaths, police said. A 25-year-old woman allegedly jumped into a…

A taxi carrying two men plunged into a dry public well in Nalasopara East on Monday afternoon after veering off the road and crashing through its boundary VASAI: A taxi with two occupants veered off the main road, broke through the boundary wall of a relatively dry public well, and plunged 20-25ft to the bottom…

Mumbai: A sessions court has refused pre-arrest bail to two persons—a former secretary, and a treasurer of a residential society in suburban Wadala, who are accused of misappropriation of funds and fraud, noting their custodial interrogation by police was required.A complaint was lodged in March this year by the owner of a flat in the…

Thane: A major civic initiative to revive old wells and convert them into potable water sources is set to ease chronic shortages in the city’s Majiwada-Manpada belt, state transport minister Pratap Sarnaik said on Monday.Sarnaik, who inaugurated three such rejuvenated wells in the Lokmanya Nagar area of the city on Monday, indicated that, if successful,…

(Left) The complainant’s brother-in-law, Salman, fractured a hand; and (right) the alleged assailants also smashed the car’s windshield MUMBAI: The father-in-law of former India cricketer and Trinamool Congress MP Yusuf Pathan was arrested on Monday, along with his son and a relative, for allegedly assaulting a man and his family in Byculla two days earlier…

Mumbai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized 132 containers with over 3,000 metric tonnes of misdeclared goods valued at approximately Rs 139 crore at Nhava Sheva port.DRI intercepted consignments falsely declared as ‘Toor Dal/Pigeon Peas’. However, detailed examination revealed the cargo actually comprised 2,710 metric tonnes of watermelon seeds sourced from Tanzania and…

Navi Mumbai: Nature enthusiasts in Navi Mumbai have alleged that a almost 30-year-old Peepal tree on the road median along the Airoli-Mulund Link Road was dying mysteriously and a hoardingg has sprung up at the location. Activists allege commercialisation of the city’s landscape discouraged greenery, turning it into a concrete jungle with no shade and…

Mumbai: Two students from Maharashtra were among the 26 top scorers in the country in the JEE (Main) results announced on Monday. Seventeen-year-old Madhav Viradiya, who is originally from Vadodara but studied in Mumbai for the past two years, and Siddharth Athaley, 18, from Pune both secured a perfect 100 percentile across the two JEE…