Mumbai: Metro lines 9 (Kashigaon in Mira-Bhayander to Dahisar) and 2B (Mandale in Mankhurd to Diamond Garden in Chembur)—which were made operational on April 8—together clocked over 27,000 passengers a day in their first week despite the seasonal summer decline. Data for April 8-14 shows that line 9, now merged with Metro 7 to form…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday called the issue of delimitation of Lok Sabha seats contentious, saying it is being undertaken without a Census and could face fierce opposition from southern states.Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Raut said there was no reason for his party to oppose the ‘Nari Shakti Vandan…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray denied reports of his being named as the party’s next working president. He said in a post on X that there is no truth to this news and there is no such discussion in the party. “There has been news on some TV channels that I am going…
Thane: The body of a newborn baby was abandoned on the premises of the Kalwa civic hospital, police said on Wednesday.A sanitation worker found the dead body in the garden behind the public toilet of the emergency ward on Tuesday morning, said an official.A case was registered against unidentified persons under section 94 (secretly burying…
Mumbai: Nearly eight years after its last tree census, BMC is set to begin a fresh enumeration of trees across the city from next week.The last census, conducted in 2018, recorded 29.75 lakh trees within Mumbai’s city limits, with the figure rising to around 33.7 lakh when Aarey was included. Civic officials now expect the…
Mumbai: Dongri police have arrested four persons, including a minor boy, for allegedly assaulting a religious leader, Maulana Khalid Ashraf, and his two sons with sticks and chairs on Sunday. The assault took place after a local boy hit the scooter of the Maulana’s son Moiz in Pala galli.Police have registered a case of attempt…
Mumbai: The Government Railway Police (GRP) on Wednesday submitted a 250-page chargesheet in connection with the murder case of a college teacher inside a local train at Malad station on January 24. GRP had arrested a co-passenger, Omkar Shinde, for allegedly stabbing to death Alok Kumar Singh, 33, a junior college faculty member of Narsee…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the BMC and the state to take action against illegal hawkers in Goregaon and file a compliance affidavit, in response to a petition by an association of licensed shopkeepers from the suburb alleging that illegal hawkers were not only taking away their business, but also threatening them.The…
Mumbai: A panoramic shot of marathon runners along the Mumbai Coastal Road won TOI photographer Sanjay Hadkar the first prize at the Tata Mumbai Marathon 2026 Philanthropy Awards held at Hotel Trident on Wednesday. “This was the first time that marathoners were running along the Coastal Road, which is a new landmark in Mumbai’s infrastructure….
Navi Mumbai: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has directed the state Urban Development Department (UDD) to scrutinise the complaints over Cidco’s project of installation of mobile towers on road medians in Ulwe node of Navi Mumbai, signalling an official scrutiny of the contentious project.The residents and citizen groups are up in arms against the ongoing…
