Mumbai’s thieves reinvent codes “Chacha ne salaam diya”“Aaj mausam kaisa hai?”To an outsider, these may sound like harmless banter. But as MIDC police in Andheri found out last week, these phrases carried a very different message for the ‘Dhakka gang’ of pickpockets who ran a carefully orchestrated operation and were arrested recently. It was their…
Mumbai: Powai police arrested four men, aged between 25 and 30, from Haryana for allegedly trying to communicate outside an examination centre using Bluetooth buds connected to a mobile phone to get answers for an exam they appeared for on Sunday. The modified handset seized from the four was just two and a half inches….
Mumbai: A proposal to cancel the existing cinema amenity on a 1,005-square-metre plot housing Alexandra Cinema in Byculla and change its use to a facility and include the plot in the ‘Residential/Residential Use Zone (R Zone)’ will come up for approval before BMC Improvement Committee on Wednesday. According to the proposal, Alexandra Cinema has been…
Mumbai: One trains with his body. The other trains with her mind. Vir Gahrotra (17) spends hours working on strength, flexibility and choreography for aerial-silk routines performed nearly 30ft above the ground. His sister Viha (14) can spend eight hours at a bridge table, calculating bids, reading opponents and trying to work out what they…
MUMBAI: Cracking down on “dazzling lights” on vehicles, Mumbai Traffic Police penalised 1,194 motorists as part of a special drive recently. Fines up to Rs 7.5 lakh were issued in this drive between Aug 6 and 8.Police said flashing lights, LED bars, fancy or harsh headlights were used by some vehicles at night, which impacted…
Mumbai: An FIR has been registered against a part-time cashier working at DMart Dahisar for defrauding the store by conniving with a customer and selling certain products without scanning or billing them. The customer has also been booked. MHB Colony Police are probing further.The FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint given by…
Kalyan: As many as 107 new dog bite cases were reported to the Rukminibai municipal hospital in Kalyan on Monday, a rise from 58 cases reported on Sunday, civic officials informed.Dr Deepa Shukla, medical health officer, KDMC, said 107 cases were reported at Kalyan of which 12 cases were from the station premises. KDMC teams…
Mumbai: The classic WhatsApp display picture scam, where fraudsters impersonate corporate leaders to trick employees into making unauthorized fund transfers, has taken a dangerous leap in sophistication. Moving beyond messaging apps, scammers are now using professional collaboration platforms for deception.In a recent case, scammers created a fraudulent group chat on Microsoft Teams using the names…
Vasai-Virar: Crime Branch 2 officials seized counterfeit currency notes with a face value of Rs 1 crore from a vehicle at Shirsad Phata in Virar on Monday night and detained a man.Acting on a tip-off, a team laid a trap at the phata on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway. The team intercepted a suspicious four-wheeler and found…
Mumbai: The first committee meeting to address concerns of medical negligence by homeopaths and assess their scope of work was held on Monday at the Directorate of Medical Education & Research (DMER). The committee is also looking to form an ethical framework for the same after homeopaths were granted registrations with the Maharashtra Medical Council…
