The University of Toronto is setting up its India outpost in Mumbai, a deep research centre that will work towards addressing pressing issues of cities including air quality, urban management and climate change.
Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said the state capital will be shifted to Visakhapatnam.
In a second major accident in a month on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad national highway, four persons travelling in a car died on the spot in a head-on collision with a luxury bus in Charoti in Dahanu taluka of Palghar district early Tuesday. The driver of the bus and three passengers sustained minor injuries.
Police personnel who rushed to the spot at around 12:30 pm found the man lying injured near the body of his wife and their two children crying.
Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) managing director Shekhar Channe on Monday announced that it will introduce its 'Shivai' AC electric buses for Mumbai with a new design having prominent shades of green.
Heavy snowfall in parts of Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand disrupted normal life.
With rates of diagnostic testing dropping from around Rs 223 to just Rs 86, BMC last week cleared its 'Aapli Chikitsa' scheme at the new reduced rates, under which citizens can get tested at civic hospitals and dispensaries for just Rs 50. BMC subsidises the testing by paying the difference to diagnostic companies on its panel.
BMC administrator Iqbal Singh Chahal is indeed a bold bureaucrat. When the Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned him to record his statement in a money laundering case over allotment of a contract for a Covid centre, his colleagues in the bureaucracy believed it would be the end of his career.
A 38-year-old assistant police inspector who was under depression committed suicide at his residence at police quarters in Chunabhatti early morning Sunday.
Bajrang Dal activists on Sunday destroyed banners of Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone starrer movie 'Pathaan' at Maxus Mall in Bhayander (west).
The city crime branch investigating the fake passport and visa racket on Friday arrested a key accused of the gang from Chunabhatti.
After a gap of 2.5 years, the B G Kher Road, also known as the Ridge Road, in the upscale Malabar Hill area reopened to motorists over the weekend. The road had been kept shut following a landslide in August 2020.
Educated youth are driving the vaping habit in India more than two years after e-cigarettes were banned in the country, according to a newly published medical study.
The V P Road police on Saturday arrested a 35-year-old alleged drug addict for allegedly killing a 40-year-old man by smashing his head on the pavement at VP Road on Friday night.
In three days this week, three flyers have been arrested in separate cases for unruly behaviour while flying into Mumbai. The arrests come in the wake of the Director General of Civil Aviation's (DGCA) action against Air India over the 'peegate' incident on Air India's flight from New York to Delhi.
Two brothers have been arrested for allegedly raping an underage girl in their car on Thane-Belapur road around 8pm on Wednesday. The 17-year-old was wandering around Rabale when the men, Akhilesh Pasi (41) and Santosh (46), led her into the car , the police said.
Over 200 students from the premier Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) saw the controversial BBC documentary on PM Modi amid tight police security on Saturday despite warnings from the institute.
City hospitals have largely scaled back routine coronavirus testing as cases reach historic lows- Mumbai reported no new cases of the virus for the first time in 34 months on Tuesday. However, some physicians expressed concern that even individuals with mild symptoms are not being tested often as they are presumed to have the flu.
Mumbai's air quality index (AQI) remained at a very poor level (325) for the second consecutive day on Saturday and was worst than Delhi's (197). After a four to five-day bad air hauls twice over the last three weeks, this is the third time the air has entered a very poor zone.
A special POCSO court on Friday convicted and sentenced a 39-year-old father to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting and impregnating his 16-year-old daughter in 2016. While initially the minor had blamed a friend after the matter came to light during a hospital checkup, she later told cops that her father had threatened her and told her to implicate the boy.
Stone pelting by transgenders led to a mishap after driver of a crane suffered injuries due to which he lost control of the vehicle and hit the suburban local train near Naigaon station at around 1am on Saturday, on Western Railway.
A sessions court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a 32-year-old former fireman to life imprisonment for pouring inflammable chemical on his wife in 2017 and setting her ablaze with a napkin he lit on the gas stove.
Delhi Police has invoked Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code dealing with destruction of evidence to describe Aftab Poonawala’s grotesque act of dismembering the body of his partner, Shraddha Walkar, into 18-24 pieces, storing them and disposing of them at various locations.
The deceased, identified as Maji Vansari (37), was asleep inside the building when it collapsed. The victim died after getting trapped under the debris, said official.
A fire broke out at RA Residences, a 44-story building at Dadar in Mumbai on Thursday night. The fire began at around 8.30pm on the 42nd floor, and residents of the building were evacuated. Despite initial efforts, the fire escalated to level 4 and was not brought under control until 1.05am.
As more and more Mumbaikars take to the new Metro 2A and 7 lines, there is confusion and resentment over the way the stations have been named. Commuters are demanding that they be rectified to their popular identities or that MMRDA at least mention the popular names in brackets.
The Mumbai BJP Shiv Sena faction led by CM Eknath Shinde is expected to win over 150 seats in the BMC elections, with BJP city chief Ashish Shelar reiterating Union Minister Amit Shah's mission of winning 150 seats.
Preventive action was taken against 331 out of 926 criminals on record and 100 non-bailable warrants were issued against those arrested in the city during a three-hour 'All-Out Operation' on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A three-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and murdered in Bhiwandi, second such incident in the area in the last three days.
The city police arrested a 21-year-old UPSC aspirant from Surat in a case of extortion. The accused along with her associates allegedly collected information about men from a dating app and extorted Rs 30 lakh from a city businessman over 14 months.
At least 25 passengers had a miraculous escape after a BEST bus caught fire at the busy Bandra junction on S V Road around 1.15 pm on Wednesday.
As Air India completes one year of privatisation on Friday, for hundreds of its employees living in the airline staff quarters in Mumbai and Delhi, it's time to brace for impact as they face salary deductions totalling Rs 10 lakh to Rs 15 lakh each, apart from the penal rent that the airline began to levy in December.
The Bombay high court on Wednesday granted bail to Sanjeev Palande, personal secretary of former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, in a corruption case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Around 20-25 passengers had a miraculous escape after a BEST bus caught fire near Bandra signal junction on SV Road on Wednesday afternoon.
India is about to ring in its 74th Republic Day on Thursday and January 26 calls for a special celebration as this date marks when the Constitution of India came into effect in 1950.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has busted a gold smuggling ring after chancing upon a consignment of rotors with 5.8kg of gold worth Rs 3.5 crore hidden within.
The owner of a jeans washing unit has been booked for power theft of Rs 25.86 lakh at Titwala in Thane district.
In a reprieve to founder chairman of Jet Airways Naresh Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal, the Bombay high court last week restrained Enforcement Directorate from taking any coercive steps against them till January 31, the next hearing date of their plea to quash money laundering case and stay investigation.
The Bombay high court has directed the City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), the Urban Development department, NMMC and a private construction company to file their replies as affidavits on the prayer of environmentalist Sunil Agarwal who is questioning how commencement certificate can be given to the private company at the Seawoods golf course site in Nerul sector 60, which is within CRZ (coastal regulation zone).
The TISS students' union has now proposed a 10% attendance relief or a monthly leave for girl students as 'menstrual leave' after a student collective on the campus wrote to the management seeking at least 2% relief last week.from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1...
