Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has granted bail to a visually challenged man (33) who was booked for raping a college student (17) on the false pretext of releasing her from possession of ghosts.Justice Shyam Chandak on July 30 found “substance” in the submission of his advocate Ashley Cusher that “prima facie, this is a…
Mumbai: Vector-borne diseases surged across the city in July, with malaria and dengue cases more than doubling and a spike recorded in leptospirosis and gastrointestinal infections compared with the previous month.In June, cases stood at 655 for malaria, 266 for dengue, 7 for chikungunya, 33 for leptospirosis and 603 for gastro. In July, the reported…
Mumbai: Sahar police arrested a passenger for allegedly smoking in an aircraft toilet aboard a flight from Saudi Arabia to Mumbai on July 30. Despite a no-smoking sign being visibly displayed aboard the Saudi-Mumbai flight, the passenger committed the offence after the flight took off from Saudi.The passenger, identified as Nurry Bahuleyan (34) from Kerala’s…
Mumbai: The body of a 35-year-old security guard, with his hands tied behind his back, was found floating in a water tank on the ground floor of a residential building in Vile Parle (West) on Monday, police said.Juhu police registered a case of murder under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against an unknown person, and seven…
This is the third such plea against FDA action before Bombay HC in recent days Mumbai: Bombay HC on Monday directed the state Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restore a Navi Mumbai restobar’s food licence, which was suspended on June 30, after it was informed that the establishment had reported 100% compliance compliance with…
Mumbai: A dozen FIRs have been filed against slumlords in Aarey colony since March.Aarey colony CEO Shrikant Shipurkar, who filed these FIRs, is in the process of filing another 10 FIRs against anti-social elements responsible for the growth of illegal structures in the eco-sensitive zone.“We have filed these FIRs under the BNSS. We are also…
Navi Mumbai: A trekker from Thane, Abhishek Kushwah (23), slipped and fell to his death at KP waterfall in Khopoli, on Sunday.Four friends, without informing their family members, had gone on a trek to make a reel, but the incident took place during their return, according to rescuers. They had started trekking towards the waterfall…
The plan follows the allotment of Toyota Innova Hycross hybrid vehicles to mayor Ritu Tawde (right) and additional municipal commissioners. Currently, the BMC chief Ashwini Bhide uses an EV (left). MUMBAI: Six new Toyota Innova Crysta vehicles, a fleet of old Mahindra Scorpio-N SUVs and a BJP leader who says he regularly travels by train…
The National Company Law Tribunal has cleared the sale of aircraft registered as VT-JES ($16 million), VT-JEV ($12.5 million) and VT-JEM ($17.5 million). (File Photo) MUMBAI: The first of three Jet Airways Boeing 777-300ERs that had been sitting idle at Mumbai airport since 2019 departed on Monday, more than seven years after the airline grounded…
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis directed the BMC to halt wasteful expenditure on new vehicles (Photo credit: X) MUMBAI: After the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) Rs 1.5 crore proposal to replace Mahindra Scorpio SUVs allotted to key political office-bearers in the civic body with six new Toyota Innovas ran into controversy, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said…
