Navi Mumbai: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has directed the state Urban Development Department (UDD) to scrutinise the complaints over Cidco’s project of installation of mobile towers on road medians in Ulwe node of Navi Mumbai, signalling an official scrutiny of the contentious project.The residents and citizen groups are up in arms against the ongoing…
Mumbai: Engineering students enrolled in colleges affiliated with Mumbai University will now graduate with a BSc (Tech Engineering) degree if they choose to exit after three years. Earlier, students who were unable to complete the four-year BE/BTech programmes were labelled as “dropouts”. These students will now receive a recognised undergraduate degree from the university, if…
Pune: NCP (SP) MLA and Sharad Pawar‘s grandnephew Rohit Pawar on Wednesday participated in a poll campaign for his aunt and NCP chief Sunetra Pawar in Baramati. Though her son Jay has also been campaigning in Baramati, Rohit held meetings independently without joining his cousin. Jay said he was happy about Rohit campaigning for his…
Navi Mumbai: Uran police seized heroin worth Rs 2.52 lakh and arrested three people during a raid at Jasai in Uran after receiving information that some youths were consuming drugs behind the Sheetal Parivahan parking lot. The police said the raid was carried out as part of a special campaign against drug dealers and users…
Thane: A 45-year-old man has been arrested from Uttar Pradesh after he allegedly stole gold ornaments worth Rs 4.5 lakh from a woman passenger on a local train in Thane, a GRP official said on Monday.Police scanned CCTV footage across several railway stations and the Panvel ST bus stand. “The breakthrough came when a man…
Thane: The Thane Crime Branch (Unit-1) arrested a 37-year-old man from Goa on April 10 for allegedly duping a woman of Rs 2.5 crore in cash and gold ornaments by claiming her family was under a deadly black magic spell that could cause fatal accidents.The accused, Manjunath Sunder Shetty alias Dikshit Baba, a resident of…
Thane: The Thane tehsildar’s office has recommended registration of a criminal case against Yunus Sheikh, father of AIMIM corporator Sahar Sheikh, after an inquiry into allegations that the family used a fraudulent Other Backward Class (OBC) caste certificate.The inquiry began after a complaint filed by Siddiqui Ahmad, a rival candidate from the NCP whose daughter…
Mumbai: The CBI has registered a case against Machindra Bamne, an official of Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), and his wife in a case of amassing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income after examining their documents recovered in a three-year-old case.In 2023, the agency had registered a corruption case against Bamne, along with…
Mumbai: Along with a 100-acre plot in Andheri West around Gilbert Hill, Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) is set to launch 18 projects in Mumbai under the state govt’s recently introduced slum cluster redevelopment scheme.Clusters of at least 50 acres, where over 51% of the area is occupied by slums, will be taken up for the…
Mumbai: Residents of nearly 7 slum settlements in Sector 6, Dharavi, have been issued a notice to vacate before the monsoon or before the next academic year begins. Sector 6 is on Matunga railway land, where rehabilitation buildings under the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) are to be constructed.Officials from DRP, which is part of the…
