Mumbai: Taloja resident Arun Walunj would regularly drive his truck to Pune till the abdominal pain started last year. “I also had swollen ankles,” said Walunj, who soon learnt that there was fluid in his abdomen due to liver failure.Walunj, a teetotaller, had fatty liver and was told he needed a transplant because it was…
Mumbai: After the BMC cancelled the transfers of more than 120 civic engineers following allegations of corruption, the civic body has now constituted a special committee to enhance transparency in the internal transfer process for engineers. To ensure greater transparency, the transfer process will be carried out online and a software is being developed for…
Mumbai: The city crime branch recently filed a chargesheet against four people, including a govt servant, for allegedly orchestrating a multi-crore fraud by impersonating as officials of the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) and duping victims with promises of allotting govt plots.Those named in the chargesheet are Ravi Sharma, Sunil Surve, Vikram Giri,…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said the delimitation bill would have amended the Constitution for political means of the ruling regime to increase the seats, reduce the voice of many states and enable the gerrymandering of constituencies to ensure unfair victories. Aaditya said this bill has been defeated in Parliament. Aaditya…
Pune: NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Saturday said the FIR registered by the Karnataka police in his uncle Ajit Pawar’s death in a plane crash had been transferred to the Maharashtra CID but it still did not act on it, while the CID officers told TOI that it had been made a part of…
Mumbai/Navi Mumbai: The alleged mastermind in the suspected drug overdose case that left two MBA students dead was arrested from Poladpur on the Mumbai-Goa Highway late on Friday, while he was trying to flee to Goa.Ayush Sahitya, 24, was produced before a magistrate court at Borivli on Saturday. He was remanded to police custody till…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has granted bail to a Thane-based shopkeeper Navnath Waghmare, who was arrested with 10 others with 25 ecstasy tablets and 27gm of charas in 2025. In its order, the court noted that while the investigation had been completed and a chargesheet filed, there was no prima facie evidence linking Waghmare…
Navi Mumbai:A massive fire broke out at the chemical warehouse of JWR Logistics Pvt Ltd, a hazardous cargo company, near Padeghar in Panvel on Saturday afternoon. The roar of the fire and the sound of the explosion spread panic in the area, and traffic was disrupted for some time. No casualties were reported. The company,…
Thane: A Bhandup-based banker couple died after a container truck hit their motorcycle near the Kharegaon exit on the Mumbai-Nashik highway on Saturday morning, police said. The accident occurred around 7.30 am when the couple was returning from Dombivli after visiting an ailing relative.The victims, identified as Kalpesh Rewale and his wife Meenakshi, both employed…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Saturday dismissed a petition filed by Dharavi Koli Jamat Trust, which sought proper demarcation of the traditional Koli land by a fisheries department survey before proceeding with any redevelopment of nearly 50-acre plot in Dharavi.The HC division bench of Justices M S Karnik and S M Modak said a 2016…
