Plans to set up an aquarium on Worli dairy land are moving on track. Besides an aquarium, it will also house a marine research institute and exhibition centre, Officials said.
Lal Shankar recently closed his 15-month-old chemist store after sustaining heavy loss for six months. A pharmacy graduate who always wanted to run a drugstore, Shankar took the plunge during the pandemic, but profits ran out early this year as the demand for medicines normalised. The Dahisar shop is not the only one to go through a rapid boom-and-bust cycle in the city's pharmacy retail business.
Three people suffered injuries after a major portion of slab collapsed in a 38-year-old building in Kalwa on Monday morning.
A woman running an animal shelter and care facility in Malad has been booked after some patrons complained that stray animals had died there, a police official said on Sunday.
Close to 1,000 animal feeders, activists and citizens held a peaceful demonstration near Shivaji Park, Dadar, on Sunday evening to assert their right to feed stray dogs, cats, while also speaking up against harassment faced by feeders.
Shopkeepers in the Chembur station area got into a fracas with hawkers on Sunday. According to the shopkeepers association, hawkers put up bamboo structures for display and sell wares which blocks the entrance to their shops.
While the recent order of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court on the issue of feeding dogs was the primary reason for holding the demonstration, the activists urged the participants not to mention about the 'court order' or even the term 'Nagpur', after their discussion with the local police.
The Central Railway is running the highest ever Puja, Diwali and Chhath festival special trains in its history, a senior official announced on Sunday.
The family of the 16-month-old girl, Itika Lot (pic left), who died in a leopard attack last week, will receive compensation of Rs 20 lakh from the state government. Local MLA Ravindra Waikar of Shiv Sena (UBT) helped the family seek compensation from the government.
As per the FIR by the victim, on October 23 around 11am, while he was at home, he received a WhatsApp video call from an unknown number.
A 40-year-old woman who allegedly jumped into a 'nullah' (major drain) in Lokhandwala area of western Mumbai in the early hours of Saturday due to domestic issues was rescued by a police team, an official said.
A history-sheeter from Mumbai was arrested in Pune days after he attacked a man with a surgical blade for refusing to pay donation for Ganesh festival celebrated around two months back, an official said on Saturday.
Observing that such offences cause a sense of shock and insecurity to the public servants in society, a sessions court recently sentenced three unemployed men from Goregaon to a month's imprisonment for creating nuisance at Andheri police station under the influence of alcohol in 2018.
A month after a seven-year-old boy died after the battery of his father's electric scooter charging in their living room exploded, another scooter battery of the same company exploded in the Vasai showroom where it was brought for replacement on Friday. The battery was not being charged when it exploded.
In an attempt to restart over 500 dead slum redevelopment projects, the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) has invited applications from private builders to get empanelled with the agency. Once empanelled, the SRA will float tenders and award contracts to empanelled builders to complete the dead projects.
Two persons have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a man in Bhiwandi in Maharashtra's Thane district, a police official said on Friday.
A portion of a three-storey building collapsed in Wazira Naka area of Borivali of Mumbai on Friday, trapping at least our-five vehicles underneath.
Mishra has been booked on charges of "attempt to commit murder." He will be produced before a magistrate court on Friday.
By 8.27am, fire was covered from all sides and yet to be fully doused.
A film producer was booked recently for trying to run over his wife in the parking lot of the building where stays in Andheri (west). The producer, Kamal Kishore Mishra, has been booked after his wife registered an FIR at Amboli police station, accusing him of running her over after she caught him with a model in the car on October 18.
Two women, one of them a senior citizen, lost their lives in separate incidents of hit-and-run in Borivli West. Both crashes involve truckers who are on the run. MHB Colony police have registered cases of rash driving and negligence.
The Customs department has seized 2.65kg of 24 carat gold worth Rs 1.39 crore from two Indian women passengers, who arrived at the Mumbai international airport from Dubai, an official said on Thursday. These passengers were arrested on Wednesday following the recovery of the yellow metal from them, he said.
The Central Railway on Thursday announced that it has completed 624 cleanliness campaigns since October 2.
The officials said that no casualties have been reported so far.
A 32-year-old man was killed allegedly by his friend and a few others, at Mumbra in Maharashtra's Thane city over some old dispute, police said on Wednesday.
Maharashtra’s former home minister Anil Deshmukh has moved Bombay high court for bail in the CBI case against him under the anti-corruption law days after a special trial judge denied him any relief.
Two brothers have been booked for violating police norms and storing Diwali crackers for sale without prior permission. A D N Nagar police constable carrying out a check of illegal sales found the duo had set up a stall on the roadside in Andheri (W) without following fire protection or safety norms. On quizzing them, he learned they had not even secured police permission.
As the godown was closed but was stocked with huge quantities of food grains, the fire has completely destroyed the food grains.
Public anxiety over price rise is on the boil as vegetable prices continue to upset the domestic budget of most households. The extended monsoon, leading to crop damage and consequent shortages, only made things worse, reports Bella Jaisinghani.
The Azad Maidan police, probing a case of hacking where an unidentified person illegally accessed the system of the city police passport verification branch, found that the accused had used an internet protocol (IP) address allotted to a device in Noida.The accused had cleared three passport application files pending for inquiry and forwarded them to the passport office.
You will have to shell out 14% charge for 'forgetfulness' while claiming cash left behind in BEST buses, while it will be a nominal charge of up to Rs 50 for other articles such as bags and mobile phones.
Cybercrimes in the city surged 112% in five years -from 1,361 cases in 2017 to 2,883 in 2021-according to a report released by non-profit Praja Foundation recently.
BEST contractual workers were on protest for the third consecutive day, inconveniencing commuters in morning hours during the Diwali festival. After protests at Santacruz, Pratiksha Nagar and Majas depots two days earlier, the workers at Marol depot went on a flash protest on Monday, sources said.
Eight fire tenders are on the spot to put the fire under control. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
A 12-year-old girl was allegedly molested by a 24-year- old man in Kalyan. After learning about the incident, the girl's father along with some of his friends allegedly kidnapped the youth and took him to an isolated place where he was beaten up. In this connection, the police have arrested the girl's father and his three friends. The alleged molester has also been booked under the POCSO Act.
At a time BEST announced overwhelming response to its Diwali offer of five rides for just Rs 9 through a special pass (leading to 23,000 new commuters in a week), daily bus passengers at Lokhandwala and nearby areas in Andheri (West) complained of a drop in services, especially during the Diwali rush.
Around 9am on Saturday, soon after the owner of M-Gold Jewellery had opened the shutter, a masked man walked in, brandishing the firearm and walked up to the cash counter where the owner was. As the stunned store owner shouted in protest, the commotion alerted the maid who was sweeping the floor in an inside room.
A senior citizen from Jogeshwari who had travelled to Uttarakhand for the Kedarnath pilgrimage was duped of around Rs 50,000 by a person posing as an employee of a helicopter booking service. When the senior citizen decided to lodge a police complaint, he learnt that the nearest police station in Uttarakhand was 12 km away and so he made an online complaint.
The body of a 46-year-old man was fished out from the Kalwa creek on Saturday.
Cheer and gaiety enveloped homes and streets as most of Mumbai's 11 million population began celebrating the five-day festival of Diwali on the weekend.
Nearly 90% occupancy was witnessed during the first day run of toy trains between Neral and Matheran on Saturday - a distance of 20km which took nearly two and a half hours to cover. October to May is the best time to visit Matheran.
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