Mumbai: Two men kicked and punched a 34-year-old man to death in V P Road area on Tuesday evening. The case was registered on Wednesday. VP Road police arrested the two accused — Govinda Akhilesh Yadav, and Adil Maqbool Khan. The deceased was identified as Shamsher Salam. Police sources said that Yadav grabbed Salam by…
Mumbai: Mangatram Petrol Pump on the arterial LBS Road in Bhandup (W) looks like any regular fuelling station, but this one was witness to a shocking underworld hit 34 years ago — on April 23, 1992 — when local gangster-turned-BMC corporator, Kim Thapa alias K T or Kim Bahadur, was gunned down by five men…
Mumbai: The Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) on Thursday released a report on the Nashik TCS case, stating that evidentiary support on allegations of workplace misconduct including sexual harassment, remain subject to investigation and judicial determination. An APCR fact-finding team has said that while certain allegations in the FIRs pertain to hurting religious…
Mumbai: A food delivery agent died after a speeding auto knocked him down, and a truck ran over him on the Western Express Highway in the early hours of Thursday. Both the drivers fled the spot. The deceased has been identified as Akhilesh Chowdhary Kamat, who was on his way to complete an order, police…
Badlapur: Police have issued notices to four doctors running IVF centres in connection with the illegal extraction and sale of human eggs from economically vulnerable women even as the investigation has widened to cover over 30 medical practitioners in various cities of the state. Of the four doctors issued notices, two are from Mumbai, one…
Mumbai: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for hot and humid conditions in isolated parts of the city till Saturday.Day temperatures on Thursday showed a rising trend. At IMD Colaba observatory, the maximum temperature was recorded at 33.2 degrees Celsius, close to normal. However, IMD Santacruz observatory recorded a higher 35.9…
Kalyan: A 70-year-old man who suffered chest pain outside Kalyan railway station on Wednesday night died allegedly due to a 40-minute delay in the arrival of an ‘108′ ambulance, triggering protests by local residents. However, the attending doctor in the ambulance claimed that they reached the spot within 10 minutes of receiving an alert from…
Mumbai: Two passengers were injured — one of them critically — after flying debris and a 3m-long iron rod from ongoing railway work struck a moving Kasara-bound local on Wednesday afternoon, in a shocking incident that has exposed serious lapses in safety practices by the engineering wing of Central Railway.Following the incident, three staffers from…
Mumbai: A 36-year-old homemaker from a Charkop housing society has been arrested after she tipped off an acquaintance and got him to loot her neighbour’s house. Police said the accused made a duplicate key to the neighbour’s house and stole gold jewellery worth Rs 34 lakh.On April 13, a 40-year-old woman approached the Charkop police…
Mumbai: The quick alertness of two traffic constables led to the arrest of two persons from Aurangabad who were travelling in a tinted glass car with an illegal weapon. The two suspects have been placed under arrest and booked under the BNS sections of the illegal arms act.According to the police, head constable Prabhakar Pawar…
