Thane: A 22-year-old tempo driver suffered serious injuries after he apparently lost control over his vehicle while descending the Nitin Company flyover on Mumbai–Nashik Highway, leading to a rear-end collision involving six vehicles, earlier this week. The incident brought traffic to a standstill for some time on one of the city’s busiest arterial routes connecting…
Navi Mumbai: NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule, who was travelling in her car along the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Saturday while returning to Mumbai, escaped unhurt after an SUV grazed her car before the Madap tunnel in the jurisdiction of Khalapur police in Raigad district.MP Sule posted about the mishap on her X handle, mentioning that,…
As the Haj pilgrims clad in ihram, men in two-piece, unstitched white fabric and women in loose-fitting, modest clothing, exit from Haj terminals in Jeddah or Medina, the waiting luxury cars transfer them to the five-star hotels facing the Haram Sharif.Located at almost a whispering distance from the sacred sanctuaries in the two cities, the…
Mumbai: The city sweltered under intense heat on Saturday as temperatures in several suburbs climbed close to the 40-degree mark, making for a hot and humid weekend. Ram Mandir emerged as the hottest spot at 39 degrees Celsius, followed closely by Vikhroli at 38.8 degrees Celsius and Chembur at 36.6 degrees Celsius. These were the…
Mumbai: A magistrate’s court granted bail to Rashmi Saluja, former executive chairperson of Religare Enterprises, in connection with a cheating and criminal conspiracy case registered by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) involving allegations of irregularities related to Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs).The court noted that while the accused was not arrested during the investigation, her…
Navi Mumbai: The Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) tied up with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to tackle the massive growth of giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta) weeds in the historic Vadale Lake in Panvel city. The bioremediation process was initiated again after it failed with a research laboratory based in Mumbai.The campaign was…
Mumbai: While rejecting the bail pleas on Thursday of two Nesco Exhibition Centre employees, Sunny Jain and Balakrishnan Kurup, in the drug overdose deaths case, a court said the organisers were prima facie responsible for negligence and the mishap that occurred at the concert in April.Saying they failed to ensure no drug or liquor was…
Navi Mumbai: A 37-year-old man from Yadav Nagar, Digha, arrested by Rabale MIDC police for murdering his 24-year-old pregnant wife in Dec 2017, was convicted and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life by the district and additional sessions court at Belapur on Wednesday.The accused, Akhilesh Gupta, then 28, worked as a machine operator in a…
Navi Mumbai: Navi Mumbai residents were urged to guard against heatstroke as temperatures climbed across the state, the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) said. In its advisory, the civic body called a heat wave a “silent disaster” that typically occurred in the pre-monsoon months from March to June. It noted that a heat wave was…
Dhaval Lakshmi Olive Ridley turtle MUMBAI: Almost six months after an Olive Ridley turtle was released from Dahanu with a satellite transmitter on her back, she has returned to Indian waters after a 3,500km round trip across the Arabian Sea, nearly reaching the coast of Oman.Dhaval Lakshmi, the turtle, is the only one among the…
