Navi Mumbai: The practice of hand-rickshaw pulling continues atop the Matheran hill station three months after the expiry of the Supreme Court judgment abolishing the same. The apex court in its judgment on Aug 6, 2025, set a six-month deadline. Till today, 69 out of 94 licence owners are pulling the handcarts. Only 25 manual…
Navi Mumbai: A 19-year-old pre-sea cadet identified as Somnath Singh Shivam, a student pursuing first-year BSc Nautical Science at TS Chanakya campus of Indian Maritime University in Nerul, Navi Mumbai, tragically died on Thursday, allegedly after falling from the halfway window of the third floor of the hostel building on the campus. Singh was found…
Passengers move through Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, which surpassed Mumbai to become India’s second-busiest domestic airport in April, handling 3.28 million domestic passengers compared with Mumbai’s 2.89 million, according to Airports Authority of India data Mumbai: Bengaluru airport has overtaken Mumbai in domestic passenger traffic for April to emerge as India’s second-busiest domestic airport….
The accused was arrested on Oct 20, 2022 Mumbai: Observing that in the absence of statutory safeguards, the possibility of tampering cannot be completely ruled out, a special court on Thursday acquitted a 37-year-old driver accused of possessing a commercial quantity of mephedrone. The special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act court noted serious…
Mumbai: Western Railway has intensified its monsoon preparedness, recording a 17% increase in high-capacity dewatering pumps this year to prevent track flooding and minimize disruption to suburban and long-distance services. The network now has 126 high-capacity pumps — 22 more than last year — positioned to speed up water removal from vulnerable stretches during heavy…
Kalyan: Phase 1 of the Metro Line 5 corridor is progressing steadily towards the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) inspection stage, a key milestone before commissioning, even as the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has expanded the project into one of the region’s largest metro corridors spanning 34.2 km across Thane, Bhiwandi, Kalyan…
When TC-JOO (THY6380) initiated climb. Vertically separated by 1,000 feet and 3 miles apart in opposite direction. FDB2JQ was flying offset by 2 miles. (Aircraft positions not to scale) Mumbai: A serious near-miss involving a Turkish Airlines cargo flight and a Flydubai passenger flight over the Arabian Sea last year occurred because the Turkish Airlines…
MUMBAI: A 30-year-old man has been arrested by Wadala Police for the murder of his wife’s paramour. The incident occurred near Reay Road railway station.Police said the accused’s wife had separated from him and moved in with her paramour, Ansar Shaikh. The accused was livid when he found out about the relationship.On May 27, between…
MUMBAI: India’s cities may look healthy on the surface, but beneath the appearance lies a quieter crisis of stress, financial strain and declining well-being, and Mumbai appears to embody that contradiction more than most.The India Health Quotient 2026, a study by ManipalCigna Health Insurance and YouGov India based on 2,600 urban respondents across 16 cities,…
MUMBAI: Two men that had stolen gold jewellery worth Rs 65 lakh from a workshop in Charkop were tracked down to the India-Pakistan border at Poonch in Jammu & Kashmir and arrested.Police said the family of one of the accused had buried the gold on the top of a hill, close to the border, from…
