The Centre approved the sale of the building to the Maharashtra government for Rs 1,601 crore in March 2024, and the state cabinet cleared the acquisition in November 2025. MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has moved closer to acquiring the iconic Air India building in south Mumbai after the Finance Department transferred Rs 1,600 crore to…
MUMBAI: There could be some answers on Wednesday as to what went down at the Dodakia house after 1am Sunday that killed all four family members, and whether watermelon played a role in the deaths. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officers said samples of the fruit, water mixed with cinnamon powder-like substance, pulao-biryani, raw rice,…
In Mira Road, the ATS is investigating a “lone wolf” attack where a man allegedly targeted two security guards based on their religion. MIRA BHAYANDER: A day after a 31-year-old man was arrested for stabbing two security guards at an under-construction site in Mira Road’s Naya Nagar, it emerged that he had allegedly asked them…
Police have identified the accused as 31-year-old Zaib Zubair Ansari. MUMBAI: A chilling video from Mumbai’s Mira Road has captured the moments a man allegedly confronted and attacked two security guards at an under-construction site in Naya Nagar in what investigators are probing as a possible “lone wolf” terror attack. The footage, filmed from an…
Mumbai: Angry relatives of a 19-year-old patient allegedly assaulted a nurse and three security guards at civic-run KEM Hospital in Parel early Tuesday, hours after the teenager was declared dead. Bhoiwada police have registered a case against four relatives though hospital staff claimed 14 to 15 relatives were involved in the attack.The teenager, Ganesh Kolekar…
MUMBAI: Bombay high court has adjourned to 2046 a Rs 20cr defamation suit filed by a woman, who is almost 90, and her daughter against the managing committee members of a south Mumbai CHS. “I do not wish to state anything except that this matter should not be taken up for the next 20 years,”…
Mumbai: In a glaring slip-up, many MCom students from Mumbai University’s Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE) were marked “absent” for semester 1 exams they had appeared for in Feb, triggering confusion and protests on campus.The anomaly surfaced on Monday when results were declared. By Tuesday morning, a steady stream of students reached the…
Mumbai: A special POCSO court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced a 28-year-old man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment for the sexual assault of a four-year-old girl in his neighbourhood during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. Among the witnesses cited by special public prosecutor Geeta Malankar were the child and her mother. The victim’s mother deposed…
Mumbai: In a shocking incident, a 39-year-old man was beaten to death with a bamboo stick on suspicion of mobile phone theft near Mahim Causeway on Sunday morning.Mahim police have arrested Naresh Singh a native of Samastipur in Bihar on the charges of murder.The deceased has been identified as Mohammed Jayabul Shah alias Anil (39),…
Mumbai: Bombay HC on Tuesday orally upbraided the state govt and civic authorities over their failure to act against illegal hawkers and dubbed as an “eyewash” attempts to show that Street Vendors Act, 2014, was being implemented.Justices A S Gadkari and Kamal Khata said there is “no will” displayed by the authorities to implement HC’s…
