Monday, July 31, 2023

Mumbaikars reminisce about their favourite monsoon memories

The monsoon is a special time of year for Mumbaikars. It's a time for joy, nostalgia, and togetherness. In this vox pop video, we hear from Mumbaikars of all ages sharing their favorite monsoon memories.From playing in the rain to eating chaat to spending time with family and friends, there's something for everyone to enjoy about the monsoon in Mumbai. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this heartwarming video of Mumbaikars sharing their monsoon magic.

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Thane crane collapse live: Rescue operation under way



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MU yet to enrol ’20 batch, now grads, in roster

Students who took direct admission to second-year engineering in 2020-the first pandemic year-and have now completed their final year are still to be enrolled as Mumbai University's students.

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One dead, one injured after SUV driven by drunk man hits car in Mumbai

One person was killed and another was injured when their car was hit by an SUV driven by an allegedly drunk man in the early hours of Monday, a police official said.

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Mumbai film producer buys 3 Pali Hill flats for Rs 103 crore

In a big-ticket deal, film producer and director Dinesh Vijan of 'Stree' fame has booked three apartments in an under-construction skyscraper at Pali Hill, Bandra, for Rs 103 crore.

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Sunday, July 30, 2023

Live: Aaditya asks MMRDA to look into damage to Mumbai roads



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70% of Mumbai’s street furniture items overpriced: Probe

The BMC-appointed committee set up to probe alleged irregularities in the Rs 263-crore street furniture works has found that nine of the 13 items did not have standard rates. The investigation also found that the rates of the nine items had been fixed by getting estimates from urban planners, and most of them were overpriced compared to the BMC's schedule of rates of similar items.

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Man on the run after stabbing wife on Khar street in Mumbai

A 30-year-old man stabbed his wife in the neck after a bitter fight on a Khar street on Sunday night and fled.

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Metro line 2A & 7 stations to get last- mile autorickshaw connectivity

The transport department has launched a project for lastmile connectivity of Metro commuters. Surveys are being conducted outside 17 Metro stations on Line 2A and 14 stations on Line 7 to finalise atleast 90 share auto routes.

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Saturday, July 29, 2023

Narrow escape for passengers as bus catches fire in Thane

Nearly 50 passengers travelling in a civic transport bus had a narrow escape after the vehicle caught fire in Thane on Sunday morning, reported news agency PTI quoting an official.

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Over 30 years after 1992 riots, court acquits man of murder

Thirty years after a city youth was stabbed to death when he went to answer nature's call during the communal riots in the city in December 1992, a sessions court acquitted a now 54-year-old man on charges of his murder. The accused, Raju Gambhir, was arrested on the basis of eyewitness statements but absconded.

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Over 39,000 cases of conjunctivitis reported in Maharashtra

The state reported 39,426 cases of conjunctivitis and alerted districts to intensify surveillance. The public health department said as per analysis of samples, most cases are of viral conjunctivitis caused by adenovirus. On Saturday, BMC issued an alert saying although Mumbai has not seen an outbreak, all should remain cautious.

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Man held for wife murder claimed it’s heart attack

A Wadala resident, Rajesh Inarkar (32), was arrested on Friday for his wife’s murder. The police said he told the wife’s family she had died of a heart attack and insisted on taking the body to their home town to avoid the “unnecessary” post-mortem.

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Friday, July 28, 2023

Mumbai live: IMD says rainfall likely to reduce over weekend



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BMC awards contract for GMLR twin tunnels

The BMC on Friday finalised a joint venture of J Kumar and Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC) as the contractor for construction of the twin tunnels that will be part of the civic body's ambitious Goregaon Mulund Link Road (GMLR) project.

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BEST seeks Rs 3,419 cr assistance from Mumbai civic body to procure new buses

The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking has sought Rs 3,419 crore from the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) to procure 2,237 buses, a letter by the transport authority revealed.

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Catchment area lakes in Mumbai get over 100 mm rainfall as northern suburbs see intense downpour

For yet another day, both the Colaba (116 mm) and Santacruz (119 mm) observatory recorded over a 100 mm of rainfall in the 24 hours ending 8.30am on Friday.

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Thursday, July 27, 2023

CET: MBBS, BDS deadline extended

The state's CET cell has extended the registration deadline for health science courses, including MBBS and BDS, by two days.

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Red alert stays as rains continue to pound Mumbai

Thursday was yet another day of heavy rains with triple digit rainfall causing many low-lying areas in Mumbai and other parts of MMR (Mumbai Metropolitan Region) to go down under water.

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MSRTC bus runs with broken roof; maintenance engineer suspended

The roof of a state transport bus was flying partly in the air as the bus sped on the highway at Gadchiroli in Maharashtra and this shocked viewers as a video clip went viral.

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Leopard, cub enter TV serial set in Mumbai's Film City

A leopard, along with its cub, entered the Film City area in Mumbai's Goregaon on Wednesday.

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ATS busts illegal call centre in Dongri, arrests 1

The Maharashtra ATS has busted an illegal telephone exchange in Dongri and has arrested accused Riyaz Mohammed PK (32).

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Live: Amid heavy rains, IMD issues red alert for Mumbai and suburbs



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Almost half of Mumbai's police stations unreachable on landline phones

Trying to reach your local police station when in distress might not always work out. Out of 95 police stations in the city, almost half were unreachable on their landline phones and in about one-third, the phones were not working at all.

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35-yr-old rapes woman he met on e-game, held

A man has been arrested for allegedly raping a 33-year-old woman on the pretext of marriage after they became friends while playing PUBG game, police said on Tuesday.

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Uddhav likens 40 Shiv Sena MLAs who left him to 'crabs'

Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday described the 40 Sena MLAs who rebelled against his leadership as "crabs" and alleged the MVA government he led was "not swept away (in the rains) but crabs had broken the dam."

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

2am landslide at Mahakali Road damages 5 SRA flats, no one hurt; bldg vacated

A landslide at 2am on Tuesday damaged at least five flats in a Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) building at Mahakali Road in Andheri (East). The ground-plus-seven-storey Ram Baug CHS has a total of 168 flats, all of which were vacated following the incident.

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Mumbai Traffic Police holds nukkad meetings with auto and taxi drivers

The Mumbai Traffic Police held nukkad meetings with both drivers and passengers in various parts of the city, after receiving frequent complaints against auto drivers and cabbies flouting traffic rules.

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2 subways to link Azad Maidan Metro Station with CSMT

Commuters between CSMT and the Azad Maidan Metro station will get a second subway for easy transit between the Central Railway and Metro 3 networks. Unlike the existing BMC subway, the facility will be air-conditioned and have escalators.

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Monday, July 24, 2023

Road cave-in affects traffic along infinity road in Goregoan

​​There are 168 rooms in at Ram Baugh cooperative housing society and the building has been vacated.

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Ajit Pawar won't be CM, and he's aware of that: Fadnavis

Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis on Monday dismissed Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan's claim that Ajit Pawar would be appointed chief minister, replacing Eknath Shinde on August 10. Fadnavis said Ajit Pawar is well aware of the fact that he would not be the CM and this had been conveyed to him during meetings held before July 2, the day Ajit was sworn in as deputy CM.

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FYJC special merit list witnesses cut-offs drop drastically

With the addition of minority quota seats, the First Year Junior College (FYJC) special round one opened doors of top rung colleges even for students securing below 90% and 80%.

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Landslide in Irshalwadi leaves behind 22 orphans

The devastating landslide at Irshalwadi in the Sahyadri range has wiped out entire families, the sole survivor in many cases being a child studying in a government residential school elsewhere.

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MMR records most sales of affordable homes: Report

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and Pune recorded the maximum sales of affordable homes although the total sales share of the affordable home segment in the top seven Indian cities is down to about 20% in the first six months (H1) of 2023.

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Sunday, July 23, 2023

Landslide on Mumbai-Pune Expressway at Khopoli, traffic towards Mumbai disrupted

The landslide took place​​ around 10.30pm on Sunday. Mumbai carriageway will remain closed for traffic from 12pm to 2pm.

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BMC plans IVF at its med colleges

The civic body formed a working group to start in-vitro fertilization (IVF) facilities in all its medical colleges.

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Couple from Vapi held for stealing from vacant homes

A Vapi based couple would travel by train to get to Vasai and commit thefts in vacant flats have been arrested. While the main accused Santosh Jathap has over a dozen cases of house-breaking, his wife Geeta is relatively new in the ‘profession’, said the police. The couple came under the police scanner after a vacant flat in Jeevdani Nagar of Virar was robbed of jewellery worth over Rs 1 lakh early this month. Based on closed circuit television images, a couple was the prime suspect.

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Saturday, July 22, 2023

Make ‘Manipur Files’ now, says Sena (UBT) mouthpiece Saamna

The Shiv Sena (UBT) on Saturday slammed the BJP- led Centre over the violence in Manipur, alleging in an editorial in its mouthpiece Saamna that since Manipur is not a politically profitable state, PM Narendra Modi is ignoring the happenings there.

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Gynaecologist acquitted in sex determination test case

Ruling that the cardinal principle of criminal jurisprudence is that no innocent person should be punished, observing that as per the PCPNDT (Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques) Rules an undertaking from pregnant woman acting as a decoy is required to be taken, a magistrate's court acquitted 56-year-old Chembur gynaecologist, Dr Vijay Kedare, and a nurse booked after an alleged sting operation at their clinic revealed that they were conducting sex-determination tests in 2018.

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May take back 5 airports from Anil Ambani firms: Devendra Fadnavis

Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis told the assembly on Friday that the government was considering taking back five airports leased to the finacially distressed Anil Ambani group for their development.

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800+ dengue, 2k+ malaria cases in Mumbai since January

The city currently has the highest number of dengue cases in the state. The Maharashtra public health department on Friday stated that Mumbai has reported more than 800 confirmed dengue cases, besides 2,211 cases of malaria and 74 cases of chikungunya since January.

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Friday, July 21, 2023

Maharashtra live: Hopes of finding survivors in Irshalgad fade



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Biker dodging potholes falls, run over by dumper; another injured

In two major pothole-related accidents this monsoon, a 32-year-old biker died on the spot after he fell off his bike while avoiding potholes and was run over by a dumper at Dwarli on Shree Malang Gad Road in Kalyan on Thursday night and another biker fell and suffered severe injuries while crossing a damaged portion of Ghodbunder Road in Thane early on Friday.

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Uran cop dies of cardiac arrest a day after joining rescue op in Chirner village

Assistant police inspector Vishal Rajwade (43) attached to Uran police station, who joined the rescue operation at the flooded Chirner village in Uran taluka on Wednesday, died of a cardiac arrest on Thursday.

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Mumbai airport sees 50% rise in international flyers in Q1

Mumbai airport saw 50 % rise in international flyers during April-June followed by Bengaluru (48 %) and Chennai (41%).

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Sextortion: Man held from WB for morphing woman's photograph, sending it to her husband to extort money

A 31-year-old man who allegedly sent obscene morphed photographs of a woman to her husband via WhatsApp and then sought money to not circulate it to her contacts was arrested from West Bengal, a Mumbai Police official said on Friday.

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Man held for raping and blackmailing debtor's wife

Dadar police have arrested a 44-year-old man for allegedly raping a homemaker, whose husband owed him Rs 12 lakh, on several occasions in the last two years by threatening to share videos of the act on social media.

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Thursday, July 20, 2023

Live: IMD issues orange alert in Mumbai, red in MMR



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Deaths fall 8%, fatal crashes 13% on Mumbai-Pune Expressway

Fatal crashes on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway have dipped by 13% while deaths have reduced by 8% in the first six months of this year as compared to the same period in 2022

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1 dies, 4 hurt as balconies collapse in Bhayander

One man died and four others, including an autorickshaw driver, suffered minor injuries after cement slabs of balconies of a ground-plus-three-storey dilapidated, vacant building in Bhayander (E) collapsed on Thursday morning.

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'Woke up to him raping me': Woman drugged, assaulted by Insta friend in Mumbai

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