Mumbai: As of 6 am on July 6, the seven lakes that supply to Mumbai held 2,44,900 million litres of water, or 16.9% of their live storage capacity of 14,47,363 million litres — up 3.7% in 24 hours — as heavy rains continued to lash catchment areas on Monday.Despite the improvement, reservoir levels remain well…
Mumbai: Water leakage was detected in Coastal Road’s northbound tunnel on Sunday morning amid heavy rain. Civic authorities undertook immediate repair work. Officials said the leakage was plugged and the tunnel was safe for traffic.They said only one leakage point was identified at the interface section between the cut-and-cover portion and the tunnel on the…
Mumbai: An 18-year-old delivery boy was killed after a water tanker struck him while he was making a late-night delivery in Jogeshwari (W) early Saturday.The deceased, Harsh Barnwal, was a native of Jharkhand and lived with his elder brother at Virar. Barnwal’s father had passed away, and he is survived by his mother.The fatal crash…
Palghar: CM Devendra Fadnavis said nearly 500 Palghar residents were being shifted to safer locations even as Kelwa and Pelhar dams in the district reached their full storage capacities on Monday. Officials had to release excess water and begin evacuation of residents of downstream villages. Alerts were issued to eight villages near Kelwa dam. Four…
Bhiwandi: A Bhiwandi court on Monday remanded four accused in the TET paper leak case to judicial custody after the expiry of their police remand, as the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Thane police continues to probe the interstate examination racket.The four accused include Suman Gupta, wife of the alleged mastermind Bijendra Gupta, who…
Navi Mumbai: Two days after he went missing at Pandavkada waterfall in Kharghar while on a picnic, the body of a Santacruz collegian was retrieved from a downstream channel around 2km away on Monday.“The body was retrieved in the morning and was handed over to local police,” a Kharghar fire brigade personnel said.Kharghar police took…
Team TOIMumbai: Mumbai came to a standstill on Monday as heavy rain and gusty winds lashed it for the third day running and torrential showers disrupted life in other parts of the state, Palghar district being the worst-hit. While IMD downgraded the alert for Mumbai for Tuesday from red to orange, the BMC has again…
No suicide note was found Mumbai: A State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) constable posted on guard duty at Lok Bhavan, the official residence of the Governor of Maharashtra located at Malabar Hill, allegedly died by suicide after shooting himself with his service weapon on Monday evening, said police. No suicide note was found.The constable, Kaustabh…
Mohammed Abuzar, the 13-year-old boy Bhiwandi/Navi Mumbai: A 13-year-old boy, Mohammed Abuzar, was swept away in a stormwater drain while playing with friends in Bhiwandi on Monday. This was the third such tragedy involving minors in Bhiwandi in the last three days. The other victims are still missing.According to the civic body, Abuzar lost his…
Mumbai: Mankhurd police on Monday arrested the contractor and owner of the unauthorised ground-plus-three-storey slum tenement that collapsed onto an adjoining ground-floor shanty at Janata Nagar in Mandala area on Sunday night, killing five children and a woman and injuring a man.Based on a complaint lodged by Mohammad Mukhtar Abdul Ali Shaikh (53), police registered…
