Around 2,200 police families in BDD chawls will get 500 sq ft flats for Rs 15 lakh each. These are part of 2,900 police quarters owned by the Mumbai Police commissioner. The balance 900 flats will be handed over to the commissioner.
The Mumbai Police's crime branch on Wednesday seized banned gutkha worth Rs 88 lakh in suburban Goregaon and arrested two men, an official said. The collective value of the seizure is Rs one crore, including the cost of the vehicle used for transporting the gutkha consignment.
Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 1,600 fresh coronavirus cases, while five more patients succumbed to the infection in the state, the health department said.
Other political leaders including Shinde's deputy Devendra Fadnavis and MNS chief Raj Thackeray too welcomed the deity at their homes as the ten-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival began.
A 57-year-old unemployed man has been arrested for allegedly molesting a visually challenged woman in a local train on Monday. Ravindra Kamble, the accused, has also been booked for ticketless travel under the Railway Act.
Greater Mumbai recorded 8,149 property sale registrations in August, the best in a decade for the month, contributing Rs 620 crore to the state revenues.
Maharashtra, till July, recorded the highest number of swine flu or H1N1 cases in the country, data from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has shown.
The Bombay high court on Tuesday told the developer of a slum rehabilitation project, who has flouted a 1992 Supreme Court order not to undertake construction on a plot reserved for a playground next to a school, that like the illegal Noida twin towers, he may have to demolish whatever he has constructed on it.
In a major political setback for the Eknath Shinde-led government, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court on Tuesday set aside the state's order on appointment of a board of administrators on the Jalgaon District Milk Producers Society led by Mandakini Khadse, wife of NCP leader Eknath Khadse.
Television actor Punit Talreja, who featured in popular sitcom "Khichdi", was injured after two persons allegedly beat him up in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Tuesday.
Mumbai Police on Tuesday arrested actor, producer, and self-proclaimed film critic Kamaal R Khan in connection with a case registered against him in 2020 for derogatory tweets.
As both urban and rural areas opened up with the waning of the pandemic and lifting of curbs, the shadow of crime appears to have lengthened. According to the National Crime Records Bureau report for 2021, Maharashtra and Mumbai are among states and cities seeing the highest resurgence in offences recorded in the second year of Covid. Lockdown violations may have been a contributory factor.
The BMC has waived off Rs 380 crore in trenching and reinstatement charges following a directive from deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis who is also the home minister.
Actor Ranveer Singh, who recorded his statement before Chembur police on Monday as part of their probe into his posting nude pictures on social media, denied having uploaded any stark photo.
The much-awaited trial runs of the prototype rake for Metro 3 (Colaba-Bandra-Seepz) are scheduled to commence on a 3km stretch from today. The trial run will commence in the presence of chief minister Eknath Shinde and deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis at 11am from Sariput Nagar in Aarey. The prototype rake had arrived in two batches of four coaches.
Rebel Shiv Sena MLA Bharat Gogawale, who is chief whip of CM Eknath Shinde's faction, said on Monday that the outcome of the power struggle between the two Sena factions in the Supreme Court is likely to take 4-5 years and "meanwhile, we will win the 2024 elections and come back to power"
A 22-year-old resident of Agasan, Diva died after his bike skid due to potholes and came under the rear wheels of an oncoming tanker on the Diva Agasan road late Sunday evening, officials informed.
In the botched up Dharavi 'gangrape' case, where the police had initially arrested two teen brothers and later discharged them due to lack of evidence, police have now concluded that the woman had lied and fabricated the story as she was unhappy in her marriage.
The comptroller and auditor general (CAG) of India has said property tax collection had a low efficiency of 53% across urban local bodies (ULBs) in Maharashtra from fiscal 2015-16 to 2019-20, and the BMC was among the worst performers with collection touching barely 28%. Civic officials said BMC's total outstanding property tax was Rs 3,048 crore.
Municipal commissioner Iqbal Chahal on Saturday issued a stop-work notice for the 16.5-acre Bhendi Bazaar cluster redevelopment project. The notice came within two days of deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis announcing an in-depth inquiry into the project following complaints of change in layout plans affecting road widths.
Bombay high court has told a sessions judge seeking further extension of year to complete the trial in a case under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) to adjust his calendar for it.
On August 18, Naresh Yadav, a driver employed with a foreign bank, was on duty to collect cash from the offices of the bank's customers-consulates of Saudi, Bahrain, and Kuwait-along with the on-duty assistant manager Jitendra Singh.
An FIR (First Information Report) has been registered against a Breach Candy-based 54-year-old trustee and the 55-year-old principal of a Kandivli school for allegedly subjecting a student, who is vision-impaired, to repeated harassment and for insulting him by claiming he could see everything.
In possibly the highest payout in recent times, the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal ordered the owner of a dumper truck and New India Assurance to jointly pay Rs 4.13 crore compensation (with interest) to the family of a Sakinaka 54-year-old garment businessman, who died after his bike was rammed into by the heavy vehicle in 2016.
A 32-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly killing her boyfriend inside an autorickshaw that he was driving at Aarey Colony on Saturday. Zohra Shah used a dupatta that she was wearing to strangle her boyfriend, Ramzan Shaikh, from behind.
Forced to hold its annual Dussehra rally either virtually or indoors for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena has applied to the BMC for permission to hold its Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park in October.
Union ministry of forest environment and climate change (MoEF & CC) has given approval for use of 236.85 acres of forest land in the state for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project, whose work is now expected to gain pace in Maharashtra.
Shiv Sena leader and former minister Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday slammed the civic administration over ad hoc transfers and reversal of orders in the BMC.
Maharashtra on Saturday reported 1,723 Covid-19 cases and six deaths, which took the tally to 80,94,845 and the toll to 1,48,224, a health official said. This was a drop from the 1,846 cases recorded a day earlier, though the fatalities were higher, he pointed out.
The Mumbai traffic police helpline on Friday received a message from a Somalia number warning about a "Somalia-type attack" by Islamic militant group Al-Shabab affiliated to Harkat-Ul-Mujahideen in India. The traffic police WhatsApp number had received a similar threat message on August 19 from a Pakistan number.
The body of a 15-year-old girl reported missing from Andheri on Thursday was found with stab wounds inside a travel bag in an isolated spot in Naigaon (East) on Friday afternoon.
Holding that five housing societies at a plush complex in Ghatkopar (West) had illegally tapped the municipal water mainline to draw more water, the Bombay high court has directed BMC to remove the tampered portion and bring it to its normal supply.
The BMC, in its guidelines for mandals ahead of Ganeshotsav, has drawn up a list of 13 old and dilapidated bridges and advised citizens to exercise caution while using them, especially while taking out processions to bring idols and during immersions. The advisory comes in the wake of past incidents of portions of bridges crashing like Gokhale bridge in Andheri and Himalaya bridge at CSMT.
Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis told the legislative council on Thursday that Mumbai will get 6,000 more CCTV surveillance cameras in addition to the 6,000 that are already in use across the city..
With an eye on the upcoming BMC elections, CM Eknath Shinde announced that the impending hike in property tax for Mumbai has been deferred for one more year.
Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis told the legislative council on Thursday that if the tree-cutting at night for the Metro car shed project in Aarey had hurt environmentalists and other citizens, he was willing to tender an apology
In probably its first such recommendation, the Comptroller and Auditor General has asked the state government to consider direct election of mayors by the people and give them executive powers. The recommendation comes ahead of civic elections in Mumbai and various other parts of Maharashtra.
Bombay high court on Thursday directed Airports Authority of India (AAI) to state whether it has given clearance to any proposed construction beyond the height restriction of 55.1 metres within a 20km radius of the proposed Navi Mumbai airport.
A labourer died on the spot and another was injured after the slab of a fifth-floor flat collapsed in Komal Park building in Ulhasnagar on Thursday afternoon.
A case was registered against him for cheating and other offences at Azad Maidan police station, the official added.
Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday announced a special audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in certain complaints of irregularities raised against the BMC.
The operations of 10 AC suburban local services, including the 8.20am Thane-CSMT fast local introduced from August 19, have been temporarily suspended by the Central Railway from August 25, officials informed on Wednesday. The services will now operate as non-AC services as before.
In the first such order by a special PMLA court, observing that if it fails to apply the principles of the Supreme Court, it will certainly amount to "sun is there but light has gone", a special judge on Wednesday discharged Omkar Group promoters (developers) Babulal Varma and Kamalkishore Gupta from a money laundering case. The court accepted their plea, which cited a July 27 SC ruling that held that when there is no predicate or scheduled offence, the PMLA case cannot continue.from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1...
