A 59-year-old man undergoing psychiatric treatment committed suicide by jumping from the ninth floor of Saint Regis hotel in Lower Parel Sunday afternoon.
The state's leading dairy cooperative, Gokul, has raised the price of full cream milk by Rs 2 per litre in all centres, including Mumbai and Pune, from August 1. The revised rate in Mumbai is Rs 66 per litre, up from Rs 64. This is the brand's third hike in 15 months.A 59-year-old man undergoing psychiatric treatment committed suicide by jumping from the ninth floor of Saint Regis hotel in Lower Parel Sunday afternoon.
A pillion rider was crushed to death under a heavy vehicle after the bike he was riding skidded on an uneven road stretch scattered with sand on the Mumbai Nashik highway on Sunday, informed officials. This is the fifth fatal mishap reported in July due to bad roads in Thane - the stronghold of chief minister Eknath Shinde.
Vakola police on Sunday registered an FIR against Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut based on a complaint lodged by a woman who is a witness in the money-laundering case related to the Patra Chawl redevelopment fraud.
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday said that if Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has not done anything wrong, he should not be afraid of the Enforcement Directorate's action against him.
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said the ED raid at party MP Sanjay Raut's home was part of a dangerous plot that was being played out leaving behind all shame. This, he said, was nothing but authoritarianism.
Questioning Thackeray's decision to join hands with the NCP and Congress, Shinde on Saturday also said he knew what happened to late Sena leader Anand Dighe.
The Pydhonie police have arrested four men from Rajasthan for looting valuables worth Rs 44.5 lakh from a jewellery shop’s employee in Kalbadevi area.
There is a need to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) sales in Mumbai and rest of the country, and also set up more charging stations to reach the 2030 sales projection, else India will fall short of 40% of its targets, said a latest analysis report on Friday.
Taking a dig at chief minister Eknath Shinde for failing to expand his cabinet even over a month after taking the reins of the government, NCP president Sharad Pawar on Friday said they were "prepared to face polls in the event the government falls."
One person was reported dead in the Andheri film set fire. Fire officials said a 32-year-old man, Manish Devashi, was killed in the fire. Doctors at the civic run Cooper Hospital said that he was brought dead.
BMC schoolkids on Friday drew a lottery for OBC ward reservations for the civic polls scheduled to be held in September/October.
The Bombay high court on Friday directed the collector (suburbs) to list steps for demolition of 48 obstacles in the aircraft approach path to the runway at the airport in Santacruz in less than a month. These include upper floors of houses, structures like huts on hills and even a light on a hoarding on a footbridge.
The H1N1 casualty in Thane city has risen to three after a 49-year-old man from Kajuwadi in Thane succumbed to the virus on Thursday, officials said on Friday.
Dadar's valet parking facility started in May this year for the benefit of shoppers coming to the popular Dadar market has shut in less than two months.
Arrested businessman Avinash Bhosale had bought a property in London for around GBP 100 million (nearly Rs 1,000 crore) in 2018 by contributing Rs 300 crore and taking the remaining Rs 700 crore as loan from Yes Bank, then led by Rana Kapoor, the chargesheet submitted by the CBI in the Yes Bank-DHFL case said.
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear an appeal filed by NGO Vanashakti alleging that a large number of trees are being cut afresh in the Metro car shed plot in Aarey Colony in violation of SC orders.
The Mumbai Taximen's Union, the biggest union of kaali-peeli taxis in Mumbai, has called for a taxi strike on August 1 to protest against the government not taking any decision on fare hikes
The Eknath Shinde cabinet on Wednesday cleared a host of schemes with financial outlays running into crores which were being pursued by rebel Shiv Sena MLAs and MPs who switched sides to support it.
A 27-year-old kabaddi player saved a 60-year-old hawker from falling into the gap between a running train and platform at Karjat on Sunday. The kabaddi player, Ketan Thorve, who works for an electronics showroom at Khopoli, was on the train while the hawker was trying to board it.
The Central Railway (CR), with funds provided by the BMC, will construct a total of 10 foot-over bridges (FOBs) across railway tracks in Mumbai to provide east-west connect to pedestrians.
A track fracture at Govandi station hit Harbour line services during the morning peak hours on Wednesday, leaving commuters stranded.
At what age do women have her ‘sexual peak’? I am asked this question frequently in my clinical practice. It may be interesting to note that it is asked more frequently by men than by women.
The cops have registered an FIR against a Gujarat teen accused of sexual harassment and extortion of nearly 22 women in the city using vulgar clips and booked him for outraging the modesty of a woman, sexual harassment, extortion, etc, under IPC.
An option given to students to fill their choice of seats under the management quota on the first-year junior college (FYJC) admissions' portal this year has stumped colleges, especially where demand exceeds supply.
Influenza H1N1 cases in the city have surged past the tally of the past two years, prompting the BMC to advise people from high-risk groups on Tuesday to seek doctor's advice and even hospitalisation if they develop advanced symptoms such as breathlessness and chest pain.
Observing that it cannot be a helpless bystander, a special PMLA court on Tuesday while allowing the Enforcement Directorate's plea seeking jailed businessman Pravin Raut's custody in another case in Delhi, said that the investigating officer will have to file an undertaking that once his custody is over, he will be resubmitted in Arthur Road Jail, Mumbai, immediately.
The Eknath Shinde government may be dragging its feet on forming the cabinet but it's moving speedily to facilitate projects linked to Sena rebels who are backing it.
Refusing to quash an FIR lodged against three relatives of a man who live in Dubai, the Bombay high court said there were "specific assertions" of cruelty against them by his wife.
In a day of high drama inside the Aarey Milk Colony, workers hired by the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) started cutting large, low branches of trees along the main road inside under heavy police protection on Monday morning. As alert protestors tried to gather near the site, four activists were detained for clicking photos of the pruning.
Mumbai police on Monday arrested two businessmen on charges of gangrape of a 35-year-old woman, who claimed to be working with a wealthy royal family in the Gulf. Police are looking for some others, including an NRI, in the case.
The Bombay HC on Monday said unauthorised constructions causing obstruction to aircraft at the city airport and not protected by any court order must be demolished.
With chief minister Eknath Shinde issuing a diktat for all Mumbai roads to be concretized in two years, the BMC may need to substantially increase budgetary allocations for the work. Construction of concrete roads while 20% costlier than asphalt are known to be more durable.
Two youngsters were killed and two others sustained serious injuries when their car crashed into a tree at Virar on Sunday morning. Police have not ruled out the possibility of high speed. Dipesh Merchant (22) and Jatin Patil (21), who were seated on the rear seats, died on the spot.
Even as the 'Save Aarey' demonstrations were held inside Aarey and across nine states and union territories on Sunday, the Mumbai police have started issuing CrPC notices under section 149 to some of the activists in order to discourage public from unlawful assembly.
Observing that merely using threatening words without action or gesture to create fear or annoy would not attract the offence of assaulting or using criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty, a sessions court acquitted an Andheri businessman, Tabrez Qureshi (42), who was accused of attacking BMC officials when they were taking action against his "illegal mutton shop" in 2005.
The co-owners of the landmark Yazdani bakery at Fort have resolved a bitter family feud over property. It ended with the Bombay high court's (HC) recent order that quashed and set aside a first information report (FIR) filed by one brother against the other.
Off the Western Express Highway, past monsoon puddles, at Naigaon East sits a massive compound. On entering the compound gate, you find a huge Tricolour flying above a high pole. The glass door nearby leads to the factory where dozens of workers are busy creating our Tiranga of various sizes.
A city court has directed a businessman who runs a chain of restaurants to pay a monthly interim maintenance of Rs 1.25 lakh to his estranged wife. Further, it said the amount will attract an annual increment of 5% from August 2023 so that the woman, who lives in Bandra, does not have to knock on its doors repeatedly for enhancement of the amount.
Weeks after BJP made the stunning decision of making Eknath Shinde the Maharashtra chief minister and Devendra Fadnavis his deputy, BJP state president Chandrakant Patil on Saturday said the decision was taken with a "heavy heart"
Winning accolades comes naturally for Ravindra Kumar Saini. The boxer who has won medals at national-level railway tournaments found a tired child stumbling along the railway tracks in a desolate stretch on the Panvel-Roha route. Employed with Central Railway as a locomotive pilot, Saini not only offered food and shelter to the lost 12-year-old, but also managed to contact his family within a day.
Nearly two years after the state government withdrew the general consent granted to the CBI to probe cases in Maharashtra, the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government is in the process of transferring two cases filed in the state-pertaining to alleged leak of confidential information on call recordings of middlemen on transfers and postings and an extortion case against BJP leader Girish Mahajan-to the CBI.from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1...
