A taxi carrying two men plunged into a dry public well in Nalasopara East on Monday afternoon after veering off the road and crashing through its boundary VASAI: A taxi with two occupants veered off the main road, broke through the boundary wall of a relatively dry public well, and plunged 20-25ft to the bottom…
Mumbai: A sessions court has refused pre-arrest bail to two persons—a former secretary, and a treasurer of a residential society in suburban Wadala, who are accused of misappropriation of funds and fraud, noting their custodial interrogation by police was required.A complaint was lodged in March this year by the owner of a flat in the…
Thane: A major civic initiative to revive old wells and convert them into potable water sources is set to ease chronic shortages in the city’s Majiwada-Manpada belt, state transport minister Pratap Sarnaik said on Monday.Sarnaik, who inaugurated three such rejuvenated wells in the Lokmanya Nagar area of the city on Monday, indicated that, if successful,…
(Left) The complainant’s brother-in-law, Salman, fractured a hand; and (right) the alleged assailants also smashed the car’s windshield MUMBAI: The father-in-law of former India cricketer and Trinamool Congress MP Yusuf Pathan was arrested on Monday, along with his son and a relative, for allegedly assaulting a man and his family in Byculla two days earlier…
Mumbai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized 132 containers with over 3,000 metric tonnes of misdeclared goods valued at approximately Rs 139 crore at Nhava Sheva port.DRI intercepted consignments falsely declared as ‘Toor Dal/Pigeon Peas’. However, detailed examination revealed the cargo actually comprised 2,710 metric tonnes of watermelon seeds sourced from Tanzania and…
Navi Mumbai: Nature enthusiasts in Navi Mumbai have alleged that a almost 30-year-old Peepal tree on the road median along the Airoli-Mulund Link Road was dying mysteriously and a hoardingg has sprung up at the location. Activists allege commercialisation of the city’s landscape discouraged greenery, turning it into a concrete jungle with no shade and…
Mumbai: Two students from Maharashtra were among the 26 top scorers in the country in the JEE (Main) results announced on Monday. Seventeen-year-old Madhav Viradiya, who is originally from Vadodara but studied in Mumbai for the past two years, and Siddharth Athaley, 18, from Pune both secured a perfect 100 percentile across the two JEE…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the state govt to make it “imperative” for 104 municipal councils/corporations, where town vending committees (TVCs) are not set up, to conclude the process of elections and constitute the committees within four months.Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande were hearing petitions by four hawkers and hawkers union….
Mira-Bhayander: The crime branch has refuted claims of “zombie drugs” being circulated in the area after investigating a viral video showing a man in a trance-like state on a road in Bhayander.Panic had gripped residents in the region after the video was widely shared on social media on April 13, sparking rumours of “zombie drugs”…
Mumbai: Observing that the discrepancies are “undoubtedly significant”, the Bombay High Court ordered the transfer of investigation into the Feb 2023 death of a woman, allegedly due to dowry harassment, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). “It is made clear that CBI shall investigate the crime in accordance with law without being influenced by…
