Navi Mumbai: A 21-year-old woman was found brutally murdered at a residency lodge in Lonere located along Mumbai-Goa highway in Mangaon taluka of Raigad district on April 20 afternoon. A case has been filed under BNS sections for murder along with rape, and under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989….
Rs 299 dress deal costs Mumbai nurse Rs 1 lakh in online scam (Representative image) MUMBAI: Lured by a heavily discounted online offer, a nurse at a private hospital in Mumbai ended up losing Rs 1 lakh in a fraud linked to a fake dress sale, police said. As per preliminary investigation, the fraud was…
Navi Mumbai: The general assembly of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) approved the implementation of an amnesty scheme to recover long-pending water tax dues and encourage citizens to clear their outstanding bills. According to the decision taken in the meeting, the city currently has water tax arrears of around Rs 64 crore. Of this total,…
By 2.30 pm in Pune, the summer sun has a way of making women disappear.Only the eyes and fingers are visible as Sujata Khilare crosses the Hirabaug chowk near Shukrawar Peth, her face wrapped in a colourful dupatta and her green sari hidden beneath a white lab-coat-like lightweight jacket dotted with blue flowers. She is…
MUMBAI: A special Pocso court cited doctor’s statement and the delay in filing of the FIR while acquiting a 35-year-old man, who spent 12 years in jail, of gang-rape of a minor girl. The judge said, “In the absence of examination of the issuing authority, to my mind, it cannot be firmly said that the…
One does not know the fate of the furniture and books at the Urdu Markaz locked since July 2016. But the people who nurtured this cultural-educational organization which ran from the one-room rented Imamwada Urdu Municipal School in Dongri since its inception in 1999 till the BMC padlocked it, citing alleged non-educational activities, are knocking…
Recording ka button kidhar hai, Madam?” Laughter erupts. This is how the documentary Mast Mahila Mandali (Cool Ladies Club) begins. With women having fun. In 2024, ten women from ten bastis in Mumbai’s M East ward participated in an experiment in filmmaking—they were to document each other’s lives for a feature-length film, shot entirely on…
Thane: A magistrate court acquitted NCP (SP) MLA Jitendra Awhad and 11 of his accomplices in the Viviana Mall assault case after the complainant and all prosecution witnesses turned hostile. The judgment, delivered by Joint Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate First Class R B Khandare, concluded that the prosecution had failed to establish the charges…
Navi Mumbai: Two Navi Mumbai residents, Pradeep Choudhary and Madhav Athwale, photographed a fan throated lizard at the Chalkewadi Plateau, Satara, early this month. The fan-throated lizard is a striking reptile known for its vibrant, fan-like extension of skin on its throat, used for display during mating rituals, territorial disputes, warding off rivals and cooling…
Mira Bhayander: The Palghar branch of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has caught a hospital security guard red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 3,600 on April 24. The trap was laid on the first floor of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Hospital in Bhayander (West). The complainant approached the ACB after the security guard, Amit Kini, told…
