My son, 17 years old, constantly counts things. He takes two steps in front and three steps behind while walking. He has to spend time in counting the number of movements while soaping his hands.
To prevent drownings of picnickers at the popular Kundi waterfall in Panvel taluka, the local forest and police officials have dumped stones at the base of the waterfall to reduce its depth. Activists, however, have alleged that closure or filling up of natural sites and carrying out blasting work without obtaining prior environmental permission is illegal.
From next academic year (2023-24), entry to undergraduate professional courses in Maharashtra will be based on both Class XII scores and CET marks; they will be given equal weightage. That apart, changes such as a minimum cut-off in CET are in the offing, reports Hemali Chhapia.
Angered over his 28-year-old girlfriend's decision to marry someone else, a 33-year-old married man from Nashik strangulated her with a nylon rope and then hanged himself with the same rope at the Palava City township in Dombivli (East) on Tuesday.
Two beat marshal constables, Manohar Patil and Kishor Kardile, were felicitated for their honesty on Tuesday after they secured Rs 4 lakh belonging to a couple who died in a road accident and deposited it at the police station. The money was handed over to the victims' son after the felicitation.
Questioning the logic of his decision, the Bombay HC stayed an order of the state’s social justice and special assistance minister Dhananjay Munde shutting down a Solapur school for students with hearing and speech impairments. “He is the social justice minister.
The lottery for ward reservation for BMC polls was drawn by civic school children at Bandra's Rangsharda auditorium on Tuesday, with 50% or 118 of the total 236 seats set aside for women.
Sameer Wankhede, the officer who probed the narcotics-related cases against Rhea Chakraborty and Aryan Khan, has been transferred to the Directorate General of Tax Payer Services (DGTS), Chennai as additional commissioner.
The police have put together a list of 100 loan apps and sent them for blocking to national nodal agency CERT-In, in the wake of a stream of complaints about digital lenders blackmailing borrowers.
Eight months after the brutal rape and murder of a 32-year-old woman inside a tempo in Sakinaka and six months after trial in the case began, a sessions court on Monday convicted a 45-year-old driver of the crime.
After two months of quiet, intensive care units at public Covid-19 hospitals in the city have started seeing a slight uptick in admissions. The recent spurt in cases has also prompted private facilities to set aside beds for Covid patients, reports Sumitra Deb Roy.
The Thane-based gold trader's family that perished along with their friend and driver in the ill-fated car accident that took place in Sikkim on Saturday night was excited to go on this long-awaited leisure trip after very long, post Covid, the family informed.
A night out at Bandra proved fatal for 23-year-old Moiz Ansari who was hit by a speeding sedan while returning home on his two-wheeler at 3am on Sunday near Mahim Causeway.
Union minister Piyush Goyal and former state minister Anil Bonde will be among BJP's nominees for the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections. While it was certain that the party leadership would re-nominate Goyal, Bonde's candidature has surprised the rank and file since it was believed that sitting MP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, who is also the president, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, would be renominated.
After NCB's SIT questioned the arrest of actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan, legal experts say it is time to invoke provisions under the NDPS Act meant to safeguard against "vexatious arrests" and punish officers who effected the arrest.
The daily tally of Covid cases in the state hit a three-month high on Sunday with 550 fresh cases reported, also its fourth consecutive day of over 500 cases in a day. Mumbai too clocked 375 fresh cases, a 14% rise in new detections over Saturday.
Experts say the present surge in Covid cases across Maharashtra could be the result of the newer Omicron sub-lineage in circulation. "It is possible these strains are pushing up the daily count, but there is no rise in deaths or worrying increase in hospitalisations. These are, after all, sub-lineages of Omicron to which there has been widespread exposure," said a senior state health official.
In a bid to increase vaccination rates among children, the BMC on Saturday started offering Covid-19 shots at eight tourist destinations across the city.
Now, one can buy craft wine or craft beer from microbreweries or wineries in bulk. In yet another move to make selling and buying of craft wine and beer more liberal and earn more revenue for the state, the excise department has allowed sale of naturally fermented craft wine and craft beer in cans or growlers up to the size of 5 litres.
A transgender person has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman on a moving local train, for molesting her and issuing rape threats. Police said the accused, Prafulla Panchal, 23, was drunk.
The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown affected smokers in a diverse manner. While nearly a third of smokers interviewed for a national survey said they either cut down smoking or thought of quitting, fearing Covid-19 would severely affect them, another one-third increased smoking due to "loneliness" and "boredom" brought on by the lockdown.
Aryan Khan, son of actor Shah Rukh Khan, had advised his friend Arbaaz Merchant not to carry drugs to the cruise party, the latter said in his statement to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
BMC’s H-west ward issued an inspection notice to La-vie building on Khar’s 14th road on Thursday. It is the building where Amravati MP Navneet Rana and MLA Ravi Rana own a flat on the 8th floor.
The Centre has asked the competent authority to initiate "appropriate action" against IRS officer Sameer Wankhede, who initially investigated the case, for his "shoddy" probe, particularly against Aryan Khan who has been given a clean chit, sources said.
In a rarity, the remand hearing of arrested Pune businessman Avinash Bhosale was adjourned on Friday by three days after his lawyer said the arrest was "illegal".
Observing that is a serious act, Bombay high court rejected the bail plea of an army man who has been accused of sexually assaulted an 8-year-old in the toilet of a passenger train and threw her out of the moving train. “The applicant is serving in the armed forces.
The state registered more than 500 new Covid-19 cases and Mumbai reported more than 350 cases for the second day in a row on Friday.
With temperatures soaring and the monsoon yet to arrive, the water storage in Maharashtra’s dams has been reduced to 36.7% of capacity, which is almost on par with last year. By now, 401 tankers are ferrying water to Maharashtra’s villages.
With Covid-19 cases in the state and the city rising rapidly again, cabinet minister Aslam Shaikh said, "It is a matter of concern that daily cases in the state are nearly 500 after being less than 150 a few weeks ago." Mumbai once again is leading the rise.
The CBI suspects that construction companies associated with prominent Pune-based businessman Avinash Bhosale, Vinod Goenka, Shahid Balwa, Rajkumar Kandaswami and Satyan Tondon had helped DHFL promoters Kapil Wadhawan and his brother Dheeraj Wadhawan in siphoning off Yes Bank loan money.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut and Kolhapur Shiv Sena president Sanjay Pawar on Thursday filed nomination papers for the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections in the presence of chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, NCP president Sharad Pawar, and revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat. Former MP Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati will declare his stand on whether or not he is contesting the Rajya Sabha elections on Friday.
Eighty-three percent of all motorcyclists (5,868) killed in road crashes in Maharashtra in 2020 were not using helmets, shows a latest data report released by the ministry of road transport and highways (MORTH).
Students from Suburban Mumbai appear to have been the worst affected by the pandemic among all the state's 36 districts, according to the National Achievement Survey (NAS) which assessed learning outcomes in classes 3, 5, 8 and 10 for a range of subjects.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting raids at seven premises of Shiv Sena minister Anil Parab in a money laundering case along with others.
The BJP protest on the OBC quota issue on Wednesday took a controversial turn with state party president Chandrakant Patil lashing out at three-term NCP MP Supriya Sule, saying she should leave politics and head for the kitchen. "Why are you in politics? You should go home and cook. It's time for you to go home," he said in response to comments made by her earlier in the day.
Enforcement Dir-ectorate (ED) is investigating a Dubai company owned by former Shiv Sena corporator Yashwant Jadhav's family which was formed in 2018, the same year he became chairman of BMC standing committee, for allegedly violating Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) rules. Around Rs 5 crore was deposited in the company's account in Dubai, half of which was in cash, during the pandemic.
Humiliated by a female co-worker's taunting, a 21-year-old man working as a housekeeper at a Goregaon high-rise murdered her in the staff washroom. Vikas Khairnar, the accused, packed the body in a plastic sack (which he put in two more) and took it in an auto and then on a local train, before dumping it on tracks in broad daylight. The GRP nabbed Khairnar within 14 hours of finding the body.
While giving a 66-year-old man time to obtain a stay on a tribunal order to vacate his 84-year-old mother’s flat in Andheri (West), Bombay high court directed that if he fails to do so, the police and the collector will have him removed from it.
Five years after a Bhandup youth stabbed his girlfriend for refusing to marry him, a sessions court sentenced him to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for attempt to murder. The court also found the now 31-year-old accused, Aakash Pande, guilty of attempting suicide and sentenced him to one year's imprisonment on that count. The accused had stabbed himself after attacking the woman.
A day after the State Election Commission (SEC) ordered the reservation lottery for polls in 14 municipal corporations, home minister Dilip Walse Patil said on Tuesday that before the actual election process begins the MVA government will secure the reservation for OBCs in civic bodies.
Bombay high court confirmed an order of the RERA (Real Estate Regulation and Development Act) appellate tribunal directing a builder to first deposit 100% of the interest to be paid to buyers for delay in handing over flats at a project called Wintergreen in Borivali, as a pre-condition to hearing its appeal.
For the first time in almost two months, the number of Covid patients needing hospitalisation in Mumbai rose to 17 on Tuesday, as against less than 10 on most days in April.
The number of private cars in Mumbai has touched 12 lakh, resulting in the city’s car density, already highest in the country, rising to 600 per km of road. Besides, there are another 1.5 lakh cars operating as taxis and cabs.
In a case involving alleged disproportionate assets, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Thane has seized documents from former BJP MLA Narendra Mehta's residences and offices pertaining to properties, cars and jewellery, sources said.
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