Rs 299 dress deal costs Mumbai nurse Rs 1 lakh in online scam (Representative image) MUMBAI: Lured by a heavily discounted online offer, a nurse at a private hospital in Mumbai ended up losing Rs 1 lakh in a fraud linked to a fake dress sale, police said. As per preliminary investigation, the fraud was…
Mumbai: In just 30 days amid the ongoing West Asia crisis and fears of LPG shortage, cyber fraudsters targeted Mahanagar Gas Ltd (MGL) piped gas consumers and applicants in Mumbai and duped more than 100 individuals of Rs 2.7 crore by tricking them into downloading malicious APK files that enabled remote access to their phones…
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has asked the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) to begin inspection of the Metro Line 2B extension up to Chembur metro station on the Sion-Trombay Road, as it moves to operationalise a crucial interchange with the monorail network, which has remained shut since Nov 2023 following…
Navi Mumbai: A 21-year-old woman was found brutally murdered at a residency lodge in Lonere located along Mumbai-Goa highway in Mangaon taluka of Raigad district on April 20 afternoon. A case has been filed under BNS sections for murder along with rape, and under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989….
MUMBAI: A special Pocso court cited doctor’s statement and the delay in filing of the FIR while acquiting a 35-year-old man, who spent 12 years in jail, of gang-rape of a minor girl. The judge said, “In the absence of examination of the issuing authority, to my mind, it cannot be firmly said that the…
Navi Mumbai: The general assembly of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) approved the implementation of an amnesty scheme to recover long-pending water tax dues and encourage citizens to clear their outstanding bills. According to the decision taken in the meeting, the city currently has water tax arrears of around Rs 64 crore. Of this total,…
By 2.30 pm in Pune, the summer sun has a way of making women disappear.Only the eyes and fingers are visible as Sujata Khilare crosses the Hirabaug chowk near Shukrawar Peth, her face wrapped in a colourful dupatta and her green sari hidden beneath a white lab-coat-like lightweight jacket dotted with blue flowers. She is…
One does not know the fate of the furniture and books at the Urdu Markaz locked since July 2016. But the people who nurtured this cultural-educational organization which ran from the one-room rented Imamwada Urdu Municipal School in Dongri since its inception in 1999 till the BMC padlocked it, citing alleged non-educational activities, are knocking…
Recording ka button kidhar hai, Madam?” Laughter erupts. This is how the documentary Mast Mahila Mandali (Cool Ladies Club) begins. With women having fun. In 2024, ten women from ten bastis in Mumbai’s M East ward participated in an experiment in filmmaking—they were to document each other’s lives for a feature-length film, shot entirely on…
Thane: A magistrate court acquitted NCP (SP) MLA Jitendra Awhad and 11 of his accomplices in the Viviana Mall assault case after the complainant and all prosecution witnesses turned hostile. The judgment, delivered by Joint Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate First Class R B Khandare, concluded that the prosecution had failed to establish the charges…
