The state witnessed protets against alleged MPSC paper leaks Mumbai: Hours after NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar alleged that MPSC was trying to dispose of and destroy old documents through a tender for shredding and processing ‘waste documents’, MPSC put the tender process on hold. The documents to be shredded included answer sheets, answer booklets,…
Mumbai: The Bombay Bar Association on Wednesday condemned and expressed its unequivocal outrage at “police excesses, physical assault, manhandling, brutality and detention of peaceful protestors in New Delhi on Oct 10, 2026, as also the detention of lawyers in Mumbai and other cities.”The resolution said, “The Association is deeply disturbed by the deplorable treatment meted…
Maximum temperature recorded on Wednesday by the IMD Santacruz observatory was 37.8 deg C, which was 4.1 deg C above normal, while the IMD Colaba observatory recorded 36.4 deg C, which was 3.2 deg C above normal Mumbai: The city was under a heatwave warning for the third consecutive day on Wednesday with a yellow…
Kalyan: A youth was seriously injured after an iron rod allegedly fell from an under-construction Metro Line 12 site and struck him on the head while he was travelling on a motorcycle in Kalyan East, raising serious concerns over safety measures at the construction site.The injured youth, identified as Abdul Haq, was initially admitted to…
Mumbai: The drought now covers 84.9% of the state, with the govt adding 39 talukas (sub-districts) on Wednesday to the list of those affected. With 304 of 358 talukas impacted, this means 25 of 36 districts in the state are totally covered by the drought. Only three districts (Mumbai city, Mumbai Suburban and Thane) are…
Mumbai: A day before a PIL challenging the proposed reduction in the width of Walkeshwar Road scheduled to come up before Bombay High Court, local Malabar Hill MLA Mangal Prabhat Lodha met BMC commissioner Ashwini Bhide on Wednesday evening and urged her to review the controversial proposal.In a letter dated Oct 14, the cabinet minister…
Nalasopara: Tuesday night turned into a life-and-death struggle for the Jaiswal family living on the 13th floor of the Imperial Heritage building in Achole, Nalasopara East. After a fire broke out on their floor and flames and thick smoke blocked their exit, the family of four used sarees and clothes to make a makeshift rope…
Nalasopara: Two women died and six people were injured after a major fire broke out in the 14-storey Imperial Heritage residential building in Achole, Nalasopara East, on Tuesday night. Police suspect that a short circuit, possibly linked to an electricity connection taken for a Navratri celebration organised within the building premises, might have triggered the…
The Mumbai-Bengaluru Vande Bharat Sleeper train is expected to be introduced after Dussehra MUMBAI: The proposed Mumbai-Bengaluru Vande Bharat Sleeper train is expected to cover the nearly 1,000km journey in 15 hours and 45 minutes, reducing travel time by around six hours and 20 minutes compared with the existing Udyan Express.The train, which has completed…
Badrinath Shivhari Thorve, a senior clerk in Mumbai’s law department, was arrested for accepting a bribe (Representative image) MUMBAI: A 40-year-old senior clerk in the law department at Naigaon, Mumbai, was caught red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) while allegedly accepting a Rs 5,000 bribe on October 13.The accused, Badrinath Shivhari Thorve, allegedly demanded Rs…
