MUMBAI: The MRA Marg police station in South Mumbai on Friday arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly stabbing a man in his thirties multiple times over a monetary dispute. Police said the accused and the victim were known to each other and are related. The accused allegedly attacked the victim with a sharp weapon inside…
P Varavara Rao, who is an accused in the 2018 Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case, has sought permission to permanently live in his hometown Hyderabad pending trial while on bail Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday issued a notice to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and sought its response to P Varavara Rao, an accused…
Manju.VMumbai: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released no report on the Air India Flight 171 crash on Friday, the first anniversary of the tragedy in Ahmedabad that claimed 260 lives. It thus missed the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) 12-month deadline for a final or interim report.The Annex 13 document of ICAO, which lays…
Mumbai: In a relief for a six-year-old boy, who was denied admission to a school in Airoli, Navi Mumbai, under RTE Act solely because his father failed to submit a registered leave and licence agreement as proof of residence, Bombay high court stayed the rejection and directed that the application be processed forthwith.Justices Riyaz Chagla…
Navi Mumbai: A resident of a Kharghar building and three of her colleagues working at a BPO were trapped in a lift between the third and the fourth floors for about 50 minutes after a power outage early on Friday.Assuming it was only power tripping and someone would attend to it soon, they waited for…
FDA is collecting details and will accordingly investigate pharmacies in areas where the patients reside Mumbai: Gynaecologists at a city hospital have raised an alarm after 12 women were rushed to the facility in two months with severe complications from taking abortion pills without medical supervision. The hospital has flagged its concerns with the state…
Chaitanya.MarpakwarMumbai: The state govt has decided to buy 125 Remote Control Robotic Craft (RCRC) boats for disaster response forces for search and rescue operations. Each boat will cost around Rs. 22 lakh, and the total budget will be around Rs 28 crore. Officials said RCRC boats are unmanned, scaled-down watercraft equipped with remote control and…
Mumbai/New Delhi: Amid a growing shift by industrial and commercial consumers to retail fuel stations to take advantage of lower prices, govt Friday issued fresh directions to limit bulk purchase and sale of petroleum products.The new directions aimed at preventing hoarding and diversion of fuel supplies meant for ordinary customers put specific limits on diesel…
Mumbai: A day after a massive fire engulfed the top floor of a residential building in Juhu, BJP corporator Rupesh Sawarkar renewed his demand for the immediate development of a fire station at Chitrakoot Ground on Link Road.The demand was discussed at a meeting convened by Mumbai suburban guardian minister Ashish Shelar at the collector’s…
Santacruz police have filed a case against the machine’s operator Mumbai: A 55-year-old contractual sanitation worker, Angamma Devendra, was crushed to death under a Bobcat beach-cleaning machine at Juhu beach on Friday morning. Santacruz police have filed a case against the machine’s operator, Kaushik Hajra (22), for allegedly causing death by negligence.Devendra and Hajra, both…
