Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by a UK-based father to return his minor child, who was allegedly illegally brought to India by the estranged mother and continues to remain in India, in violation of the 2023 order of a Family Court in England to bring the child back.The HC…
Maharashtra FDA faces delays in testing watermelon samples linked to four deaths, as watermelons have vanished from local markets. MUMBAI: As the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) faces delays in testing food samples in four deaths linked to a watermelon, its investigators have also hit a new roadblock: Random sampling has been delayed due…
Navi Mumbai: A dumper driver was injured but narrowly escaped from being electrocuted on Tuesday afternoon at Khopoli. The driver was unloading the soil when the upper portion of the dump bed touched the overhead live wire. The driver jumped out of the truck, but the dumper caught fire.The incident was reported at Vadval under…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by a UK-based father to return his minor child, who was allegedly illegally brought to India by the estranged mother and continues to remain in India, in violation of the 2023 order of a Family Court in England to bring the child back.The HC…
MUMBAI: Central Railway (CR), acting on court directives, removed 45 illegal huts near B D Chawl in Wadi Bunder, close to Hancock Bridge, clearing land for a proposed Vande Bharat maintenance depot. The structures, along with a two-storey construction, had encroached upon railway land for years. Following due legal process, CR carried out a coordinated…
Mumbai: The Mumbai zonal office of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday took custody of alleged druglord Salim Dola from its Delhi counterpart in connection with multiple cases registered against him in Mumbai. Officials said Dola will be produced before a special NDPS court on Thursday over a 2024 case, in which he is listed…
Mumbai: Suburban commuters in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) will get more space and AC travel opportunity from May 1, with the Western Railway introducing additional 15-coach trains and both WR and Central Railway expanding air-conditioned services.Central Railway (CR) will scale up its AC suburban operations to 108 daily services from May 1, after adding…
Mumbai: A 48-year-old constable attached to Nehru Nagar police station, Santosh Chavan, was killed after a heavy excavator drilling crane toppled on his motorcycle at an underconstruction flyover site on Sion-Panvel Highway in Mankhurd on Tuesday night. Mankhurd police have registered an FIR against the BMC-appointed private contractor and associated personnel for alleged negligence and…
Mumbai: Members of BMC’s standing committee on Wednesday alleged that contractors had dumped construction debris alongside rivers to show that a higher quantum of silt had been removed during cleanup operations. NCP member Sayeeda Khan said at one such site in Kurla, the contractor engaged for desilting Mithi river had covered the debris with silt…
Mumbai: A day after TOI reported on the Institute of Chemical Technology’s (ICT) plan to shed its ‘deemed-to-be university’ tag, which restricts access to big-ticket state and central govt funding, faculty members and alumni have expressed opposition to such a move.A section of the institute’s faculty has written to the Board of Governors warning that…
