Mumbai: MNS chief Raj Thackeray met with Mumbai municipal commissioner Ashwini Bhide at the BMC headquarters on Friday. Thackeray was accompanied by a delegation that included six MNS corporators, including the leader of the MNS in the BMC, Yashwant Killedar.The visit was a formal meeting by Thackeray to congratulate Bhide on her recent appointment as…
Vasai: The Mira-Bhayander, Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police have begun a crackdown on Vasai’s land mafia after registering a series of FIRs this month. Not stopping at filing FIRs, the MBVV cops have arrested one accused, invoked the Environment Protection Act and also booked two accused under the stringent BNA 111, which is an “organised crime.“Commenting on…
Navi Mumbai: An Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Bombay) expert survey report submitted to the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has flagged a serious reduction in the storage capacity of the city’s 14 holding ponds, raising concerns about flooding during the monsoon, especially when heavy rainfall coincides with high tide. The retention ponds function as a protective…
Mumbai: A fire broke out on Friday afternoon on the third floor of a residential high rise in Tardeo.According to preliminary information, the incident was reported at 12:44 pm by the Mumbai fire brigade control room. The fire occurred at Sai Leela Cooperative Housing Society, located within the M P Mill Compound. The building is…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the forthwith repatriation of a 27-year-old Bangladeshi national, a victim of trafficking who has been stranded since her rescue during a raid on a restaurant in Dahisar in 2024.Noting that her repatriation “has been inordinately delayed for over six months” due to delay in recording her evidence, Justices…
Mumbai: A 33-year-old micro-tunneling worker was killed in a tragic road accident near Bhandup Pumping Station early Tuesday. The deceased, identified as Chandan Kumar Madan Prasad, had come from Bihar to work as a fitter craftsman with Gypsum Structural India Private Limited.According to the police, the incident happened on Tuesday early morning at around 5.30…
MUMBAI: A team from the Nashik Crime Branch reached Mumbra on Friday in search of the absconding female employee, an accused in the TCS harassment and alleged religious conversion case registered in Nashik. According to police sources, her husband is currently being questioned by the Nashik police. An officer said that she has been living…
Mumbai: A 36-year-old Bangladeshi woman, who was in police custody pending deportation, escaped from the premises of Kurla Police Station in the early hours of Wednesday, triggering an internal probe and a manhunt. The Kurla police as well the city crime branch are trying to trace the woman.According to the police, the incident took place…
Mumbai: A course-correction is being attempted at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS)—Indian pre-history “always ignored in museums” or given compact spaces for display is now finally getting its due. The museum on Thursday inaugurated ‘The Stone Age: Journey Through Time’, a long-awaited extension of the ‘Networks of the Past’ gallery.The Stone Age marks the…
Mumbai: A consumer district redressal commission has directed the defunct Go Airlines (India) Ltd, which shut in May 2023, to refund Rs 63,161 to a passenger with 8% interest since Dec 26, 2019, for a last-minute flight cancellation. It said the airline itself acknowledged it cancelled the flight and offered a refund but later said…
