Mumbai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) held two passengers at the Mumbai international airport and recovered from them diamonds worth Rs 5.7 crore that they concealed inside their bodies, an official said on Thursday.The duo was trying to smuggle the diamonds to Bangkok, he said.The DRI official said after being caught at the Chhatrapati…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only Mumbai: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Central Railway apprehended over 1300 touts, seized contraband worth Rs 43.6 lakh, and returned lost luggage worth Rs 3.09 crore to its rightful owners in the first quarter of this year. The data, across all five divisions of Central Railway, was released…
The family of Jayesh Parmar has submitted video clips to the police where he mentioned that he was being harassed by three people. Parmar was found injured on railway tracks by a friend and died in hospital a few days later Mumbai: A month after a 26-year-old man died under mysterious circumstances, his family has…
– Special camp organised in East of Kailash on April 11 for verification and mapping of voters as part of SIR preparatory work. TOI photo Mumbai: Even as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is set to begin in Maharashtra, the state has achieved only 70% progress in the last two months on mapping voters from…
MUMBAI: Hidden behind mountains of legacy garbage at the Deonar dumping ground, MMR’s first waste-to-energy (WTE) plant is inching towards completion, with civic officials eyeing Dec for stabilised operations. Spread across 12 hectares, the ambitious project aims to process 600 tons of municipal waste daily and generate almost eight megawatts of electricity — likely to…
Mumbai: In the wake of increasing silt in the reservoirs of dams, decreasing water storage capacity and uncontrolled sand extraction, the state on Thursday approved the removal of silt and silt-mixed sand from the reservoirs of six major projects on an experimental basis and issued a revised policy. “This policy will increase the water storage…
One of the resident doctors claimed a mob of 100 turned up at Kurla Bhabha Hospital Mumbai: Relatives of a patient who died a day after childbirth allegedly assaulted four resident doctors from the gynaecology department at Kurla Bhabha Hospital on Wednesday night.All four doctors were women. “My head was banged against the wall and…
One of the resident doctors claimed a mob of 100 turned up at Kurla Bhabha Hospital Mumbai: Relatives of a patient who died a day after childbirth allegedly assaulted four resident doctors from the gynaecology department at Kurla Bhabha Hospital on Wednesday night.All four doctors were women. “My head was banged against the wall and…
HSRP being fixed in a vehicle in Pune Mumbai: Transport minister Pratap Sarnaik on Thursday announced that it will be mandatory for all vehicles, registered before April 2019, to install High Security Registration Number (HSRP) plates from July 1.The earlier deadline was Dec 31, 2025. However, after reviewing the progress of HSRP installation across the…
Grant Road building’s staircase collapses Mumbai: As many as 63 people, who were trapped inside a four-storey residential-cum-commercial Mhada building in Grant Road (E) after the staircase collapsed on Thursday afternoon, were safely rescued by firefighters. No one was hurt in the incident.According to fire brigade officials, the staircase between the ground and first floors…
