A teenager drowned while swimming at Arnala beach in Virar on Thursday. His friends attempted to revive him by pulling him out of the water and performing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). However, he was declared dead in the hospital.
Almost four months after he was arrested on charges of mowing down Rajalakshmi Vijay, a 57-year-old tech company CEO jogging at Worli Sea Face, in a drunk driving incident on March 19, a sessions court on Friday granted bail to 23-year-old Tardeo resident Sumer Merchant.
The scorching domestic airfares of May and early June have made way for cheaper fares, what with the southwest monsoon winds sweeping across the Indian heartland, heralding the start of the lean air travel season.
Two days after PM Modi made a pitch for a Uniform Civil Code, MPCC president Nana Patole on Thursday set up a nine-member committee headed by former Mumbai university vice-chancellor and Congress leader Bhalchandra Mungekar to study the proposed UCC.
In two separate casualties reported in Mumbai, an infant and a 35-year-old man died over the past two days.
On the occasion of Ashadhi Ekadashi, thousands of devotees participated in Gyan Dindi on Thursday that was organised by Century Rayon and BK Birla College in Kalyan.
A 22-year-old worker died after falling off the seventh floor of an Andheri-based five-star hotel while reportedly trying to repair the false ceiling in the open area. The tragedy occurred around 12.30pm when the deceased, Sahil Rajbahar, stepped on the false ceiling instead of the iron walkway to carry out some repair work, said the Sahar police.
The Sir JJ Schools of Art, Architecture and Design will together be accorded university status soon-a long-time ambition of the institutions and their illustrious alumni. The plan to convert the 166-year-old institute with an unparalleled legacy, into a deemed university in the de-novo category, finally got the state cabinet's nod on Wednesday.
The state cabinet approved the formal handing over of 33,000 sq feet land at Dharavi to the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) for ancillary activities.
Thane recorded over 150mm of rainfall till the evening on Wednesday. More than 30 complaints of waterlogging were reported in the city.
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and MP Sanjay Raut have been summoned by a magistrate's court on July 14 in a defamation case filed by Shiv Sena MP Rahul Shewale over some articles published in the Sena (UBT) mouthpiece Saamna accusing him of having business interests in Karachi.
Heavy rainfall lashed several parts of the city, including Goregaon, Vile Parle, Lower Parel and Andheri, on Wednesday morning.
A student who secured 99.49 percentile last year in the MBA/MMS CET conducted by the state's CET cell, appeared again this year to better his score to secure a seat of his choice.
Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has begun the process to procure rakes for Metro Line 6 even though tenders for construction of a depot have still not been floated.
Mumbai-Goa Vande Bharat Express has been flagged off by PM Narendra Modi. Here’s all you need to know about Goa’s first Vande Bharat - from features to time table, stops, route & fare etc.
Marathi is being reintroduced at Mumbai's sought-after St Xavier's College after almost four decades, thanks to the National Education Policy's (NEP) emphasis on regional languages.
Citizens from various parts of island city and suburbs faced power outages due to rains till late Saturday night and early Sunday.
The bodies of the mother-son duo who were trapped under the debris after a building collapsed in Ghatkopar on Sunday were recovered by the rescue team on Monday.
The train services on Central railway between UP Karjat-Badlapur section were affected after a goods train stalled due to engine failure on Up Line near Badlapur railway station on Monday morning.
Just 0.8% of the 1,95,409 complaints filed from Maharashtra on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal from January 2022 to May 2023 resulted in an FIR, shows information obtained under the RTI Act.
Despite the BMC's pre-monsoon works claims, on the very first day that the city recorded intense rain activity this season, several areas got flooded, including Dadar TT Circle, Sion Road 24, Tilak Nagar, and Andheri and Dahisar subways. A BMC statement, though, claimed water was soon drained in these areas and traffic movement was restored.
A 38-year-old Australian woman who had been battling depression for 26 years became the first to undergo a psychiatric operation in Mumbai-and perhaps in India-since the Mental Healthcare Act was passed in 2017.
Heavy rain lashed Mumbai on Saturday causing waterlogging and affecting vehicular movement in parts of the city.
Due to waterlogging, the garbage was seen floating due to which people had to face a lot of problems.
A GR issued by the state government on Friday has upgraded nine RTOs across Maharashtra. These include two offices in Mumbai region — Borivli RTO in the city’s western suburbs and Vasai RTO in far-flung suburbs.
A student who fails in Class 5 or 8 will be allowed to appear for a re-examination which will be held within two months of the declaration of annual exam results, according to a state government notification.
Four instructors, including a US-certified trainer, had been appointed to coach students with special needs separately at Gokuldham High School, where 14-year-old Shardul Arolkar was taking swimming lessons and died after being pulled out of the pool.
For once, citizens and the local MLA are on the same side opposing the use of a portion of a parking lot in Juhu for the construction of a restaurant-cum-hangout space.
The Bombay high court was “extremely disturbed” on Thursday that the police had not acted promptly to find a woman, a Mumbai Central resident, who went missing in 2006 when she was 23 years old and had gone to attend a satsang in New Delhi.
A 22-year-old man was found hanging from the ceiling in Dharamveer nagar near Vasant Vihar in Maharashtra's Thane late on wednesday, the police said.
Baker Anthony Paul, while buying drugs to plant on his victims “for revenge”, told the drug peddler he “wanted weed to treat a Covid-positive relative”, the chargesheet submitted on Tuesday stated. After framing Sadak-2 actor Chrisann Pereira in a drug case in Sharjah, Paul, on the pretext of trying to secure her bail, also tried to extort Rs 80 lakh from her family, the chargesheet added.
The ongoing project involves widening the Expressway from six to eight lanes between the Khalapur toll post and the Khopoli entry of the Missing Link, as well as its Lonavala exit up to the Sinhgad Institute ramp towards Pune.
In a major step that is expected to revolutionise local train travel, Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) has invited tenders for 238 Vande Metro air-conditioned rakes for deployment across the suburban networks on the Western Railway (WR) and Central Railway (CR). A total of 2,856 cars will be procured, which can be configured to run as 12-car and 15-car trains.
Andheri station is set for a major transformation. The Railway Land Development Authority is readying a concept plan to revamp the station, focusing on modernizing infrastructure, introducing world-class passenger amenities, and implementing measures to alleviate congestion for faster dispersal of commuters.
Over 50% of work has been completed on a new bridge that aims to smoothen traffic between Mumbai and Navi Mumbai.
A 33-year-old pedes-trian died and three women, including a passenger, were injured in a BEST bus crash in Borivli (E) on Tuesday.
The molestation case filed against Nandu Joshi, a BJP office bearer, by a policeman's wife in Dombivli has been transferred from the local Manpada police station to the Crime Branch.
To address pothole-related complaints quicker during the rains, one sub- engineer has been nominated for each of the 227 civic electoral wards, each tasked with pothole-filling work.
A security guard at a housing society in Kandivli (East) was arrested on Saturday for the molestation of an eight-year-old girl inside the electricity meter room of the building.
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