Mumbra police have arrested a 28-year-old man allegedly killing a 13-year-old boy in Diva. The police said that accused Dashrath Kakde and the deceased were neighbours, Kakde was irked with the boy as he used to spit besides his chawl tenement and abuse him.
The volume of women in Thane city seeking financial assistance from the municipal corporation for sustenance has shot up by nearly four times in the last five years, reveal municipal records.
The state government's freeze on its share of funds towards the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) has started to have an adverse impact as the tendering process has been put on hold for various projects being executed by Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation, MRVC officials said. The tendering process for a communications-based train control system, procurement of 191 AC rakes and an improvement plan for 19 stations is on hold, they said.
The CBI probing the Yes Bank-DHFL loan fraud case on Saturday raided raided eight premises belonging to developers Vinod Goenka, Shahid Balwa, and Avinash Bhosale, along with Rajkumar Kandaswami and Satyan Tondon of Wizard Constructions in Mumbai and Pune.
With Covid cases rising in some parts of the country, Mumbai’s April tally, too, showed an upward tick as compared to the March caseload.Maharashtra’s Covid graph, however, dipped by 55% in the same period.
A 23-year-old man who runs a bakery at Prem Nagar in Goregaon (W) has been held for the murder of an 18-year-old girl from the neighbourhood. Her body washed up on Versova beach on Thursday.
A sessions court judge on Saturday heard and reserved for orders a bail plea made by independent MP from Amravati Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana following their arrest last Saturday for alleged offence of breach of harmony and sedition over their plans to chant Hanuman Chalisa outside the personal residence of CM Uddhav Thackeray. Special judge R N Rokade said he would pass orders on Monday.
Polls to key municipal corporations including Mumbai, Pune, Thane and Nashik are set to be delayed till the end of September, with the state election commission (SEC) submitting an affidavit in Supreme Court saying that the time taken to prepare for the polls will stretch till June, by which time the monsoon will begin. Elections cannot be held during the monsoon months since it poses logistical challenges, the SEC has pointed out.
The public health department has asked districts to impress upon people the need to wear masks at least in closed spaces and spread awareness about the benefits of masking in public places. In the wake of steadily rising cases, the department has sent 11 pointers to all the districts; voluntary masking is one of them.
Opposing the bail plea of independent MP from Amravati Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana, the police said on Friday that the plan to read Hanuman Chalisa at Matoshree, CM Uddhav Thackeray's private residence, was a big plot to create a challenge to the law and order situation to the extent that the Maharashtra governor could recommend dissolution of the present (MVA) government.
Single journey fares for suburban air-conditioned trains have been reduced by 50% to attract more passengers. There will, however, be no cut in the season ticket rates as the railway ministry feels they are already highly subsidised. In a move to rationalise the rates of single journey first class tickets, fares have been slashed by 40-50%. The new fares will come into effect from May 5.
The price of CNG in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region will be further hiked by Rs 4 a kg from Saturday morning, pushing it to an all-time high of Rs 76 per kg at fuel pumps.
In the illegal phone-tapping case against IPS officer Rashmi Shukla, in a rarity, a high-ranking bureaucrat had given a statement before the magistrate, which carries evidentiary value.
The decomposed body of a 19-year-old junior college girl, stuffed in a sack with her hands and legs tied, washed ashore at Versova beach Thursday evening. She was strangled to death using a cable, police said.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar filed an additional affidavit on April 11 before the Koregaon Bhima commission, comprising retired Chief Justice J N Patel and Sumit Mullick, to “suggest certain reforms to the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and IPC.
The CBI on Thursday arrested builder Sanjay Chhabria of Radius Group in a case related to cheating, criminal conspiracy and corruption that it is investigating against DHFL promoter Kapil Wadhawan, his brother Dheeraj and former Yes Bank promoter Rana Kapoor.
Actor Salim Ghouse, known for his imperial baritone and piercing eyes, passed away after a cardiac arrest on Thursday. He was 70.
Three accused, including academician Anand Teltumbde, moved the special NIA court on Thursday seeking discharge in the Elgar Parishad case.
In a bid to motivate young doctors to opt for rural service after MBBS, the state has decided to set aside 25% postgraduate seats for in-service doctors. A formal government resolution is awaited.
A private entity, Adarsh Water Parks and Resorts, obtained decree for 6,375 acres of Kanjurmarg land in the same month that the collector allotted a part of it - 102 acres for the Metro car depot - to the state government. The allotment to the state was immediately challenged in court by the Centre.
The current political scenario has left everyone perturbed in Maharashtra. There is complete anarchy in the state, thanks to the state-sponsored terrorism by the Shiv Sena workers. The Bharatiya Janata Party leaders are being publicly attacked. Mobs are vandalising and hurling stones at the vehicles and residences of BJP leaders, all in the presence of the state police.
Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the state government to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation within 3 weeks to the widow of a man, a "manual scavenger", who choked to death in May 2017 after falling inside a manhole at Chandivali, Andheri (East).
The Mumbai airport registered the highest passenger traffic growth of 97% year-on-year in the country as 2 crore domestic and international flyers passed through it between April 2021 and March 2022, shows recent data from the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
State home minister Dilip Walse Patil on Wednesday ordered a probe into the Rs 80-lakh loan taken by Amravati independent MP Navneet Rana from builder and film financier Yusuf Lakdawala, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money-laundering case.
Colaba police on Tuesday filed a 750-page chargesheet against former state intelligence department (SID) chief Rashmi Shukla in connection with the alleged illegal phone-tapping case in the Esplanade Court.
Even as the Centre and the state were slugging it out in court over the ownership of the 102-acre Kanjurmarg Metro car shed plot, it transpires that a private entity-Adarsh Water Parks & Resorts-was able to obtain a consent decree from the Bombay high court for the entire Kanjur village (east and west), spread over approximately 6,375 acres, that includes the disputed plot.
Two papers published in 2021 have shown that salt substitution can help reduce blood pressure [1] and improve all-cause mortality [2]. Both studies were performed in rural populations where exposure to salt in processed and ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is low. The population was randomized in both trials. One group received regular salt for daily use while the other had partial substitution with 25-30% of potassium chloride.
The transmission grid failure of the 400 KV Kalwa-Padgha line, the third such incident in two years, once again led to power outages in several parts of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region on Tuesday morning. Areas affected included parts of the island city, the eastern and western suburbs, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Kalyan and Dombivli.
BJP's Kirit Somaiya has alleged that the FIR filed by Bandra police ostensibly at his behest is false. While he did give a statement to the police, it was not read back to him for his approval as is the normal procedure, nor did he sign it, said Somaiya's advocate Vivekanand Gupta.
Maharashtra's Covid-19 task force has expressed concern over the rise in cases in states including Delhi and Karnataka and recommended a return to masking. In particular, it has recommended compulsory masking in indoor spaces like cinema theatres, auditoriums and malls.
The income-tax adjudication authority has passed a confiscation order under the amended Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act on immovable properties spread over 100 acres (worth over Rs 70 crore) in Igatpuri that belonged to fugitive diamond merchant Mehul Choksi.
The Justice K U Chandiwal commission set up by the MVA government to probe corruption charges levelled by former CP Param Bir Singh against former home minister Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday submitted its 201-page report to CM Uddhav Thackeray in the presence of home minister Dilip Walse Patil and chief secretary Manukumar Srivastava.
The motorcycle rider escaped with no serious injury as he was wearing a helmet, police said.
Alarmed that there were over 15,000 child marriages in the tribal districts of Maharashtra in the last 3 years, the Bombay high court on Monday said the state government must sensitise the tribal community to protect the rights of girl child.
Refusing to quash the second FIR lodged by city cops against independent MP from Amravati Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana for obstructing a public servant on duty, the Bombay high court on Monday said “the petitioners who claimed to be active in their political and public life are expected to act more responsibly”.
Khar police on Monday arrested four Shiv Sena members, including former Mumbai mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar, in connection with the recent 'attack' on Kirit Somaiya even as the BJP leader flew down to Delhi with a delegation of party MLAs and corporators from the city to lodge a complaint against Mumbai police with Union home secretary Nityanand Rai.
Without naming lawmaker couple Ravi and Navneet Rana, who were arrested following a high-voltage face-off with the Shiv Sena over reciting the Hanuman Chalisa outside the Thackeray family's home in Bandra, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said people are welcome to Matoshree and chant, but "there has to be a proper method and manners".
Day temperatures in the city rose sharply on Monday touching 38.5 degrees, almost five degrees above normal. A day ago on Sunday, the IMD Santacruz observatory had recorded maximum temperatures of 35.5 degrees.
Receiving the Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar award instituted by the Master Deenanath memorial trust in Mumbai, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday recalled his over four-decade-long relationship with the family and the legendary artiste who he described as his “elder sister”.
Independent MLA Ravi Rana and his wife, Amravati MP Navneet Rana, were sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a holiday magistrate on Sunday, a day after their arrest following a high-voltage face-off with the Shiv Sena over reciting the Hanuman Chalisa outside the Thackeray family’s home,
For yet another day, above normal temperatures were recorded in the city. Night temperatures were also above normal. The minimum temperatures recorded on Sunday were the second highest in a decade at 27.8 degrees. Last year also the highest minimum temperatures for the month of April was 27.8 degrees recorded on April 26.
With common law entrance exam (five-year LLB) in Maharashtra CET on June 10 clashing with a CBSE 12th board examination date the CET Cell on Sunday revised and set June 18 or June 19 as the new proposed tentative date for the competitive examination.
The daily Covid tally in the state shot up by 60% to reach 194 on Saturday, with Pune registering the highest single-day increase from 24 (on Friday) to 81. Mumbai remained steady, registering 72 cases for the second day.from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1...
