Mumbai: The Dongri Police arrested a 32-year-old habitual conman who allegedly duped jewellery shop owners across Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai by posing as a customer, showing fake online payment confirmations and fleeing with gold ornaments.His arrest has led to the detection of seven similar offences registered across multiple police stations.The accused, identified as Rahul…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC) has directed the state govt to pay Rs 17.95 lakh in compensation to a 23-year-old woman’s family for “violating her right to life” by denying her timely emergency care.The commission also noted that the pregnant woman’s delivery was conducted by doctors who were not trained in obstetrics,…
Relentless downpours that have severely disrupted normal life, administrative operations, and public transport networks across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Mumbai: A holiday has been declared for schools and colleges across Mumbai, Thane, and Navi Mumbai on Monday due to an ‘orange’ alert issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting heavy to very heavy rainfall…
Vedant Sawant died after being electrocuted by a metal ladder inside his Nalasopara residence that became live due to an inverter-related electrical fault on Saturday Thane: A 20-year-old college student, Vedant Sawant, died after being electrocuted by a metal ladder inside his Nalasopara residence that became live due to an inverter-related electrical fault on Saturday….
Mumbai: Heavy rains and strong winds disrupted flight operations at the Mumbai airport on Sunday, with the runway shut for an hour in the morning due to poor visibility. Delhi too had inclement weather with sudden heavy rains in the morning, which impacted flights in Mumbai as well. By evening, four flights were cancelled, and…
File pic of Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis Mumbai: “Hindus are naive and gullible, but they are not stupid. If someone is looting temples by taking advantage of our Hindutva, no Hindu will forgive them now,” said Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday evening as he kicked…
An FDA release, issued on Saturday evening, ordered an immediate stop to the use, sale and distribution of these three creams. (Image-Social Media) MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a health alert against three skin-lightening creams, including one allegedly manufactured in Pakistan, after laboratory tests found they contained mercury and lead…
Mumbai: The delayed, fiercely-debated and much-litigated elections to the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, one of the city’s premier institutions of research and scholarship, finally took place on Saturday with former BJP Rajya Sabha member Vinay Sahasrabuddhe of the ‘Asiatic Tomorrow’ panel voted in as president and his group sweeping all the other 18 posts. The…
Mumbai’s daily commute has become a perilous journey, marked by recent tragedies including a fatal manhole fall, a schoolboy’s death from a falling tree, and violent attacks on trains. MUMBAI: The daily commute is tiring for most Mumbaikars as they negotiate crowds, delays and traffic snarls. But incidents over the last fortnight, an open manhole…
Navi Mumbai: Twenty-one-year-old Navi Mumbai resident Anshuman Jhingran, an ex-student of Father Agnel School, Vashi, and a third-year degree student of Rayat Shikshan Sanstha’s Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil College, Vashi, crossed the Tsugaru Channel in Japan on June 30, becoming the youngest male swimmer in the world to swim across the Seven Oceans, which has been…
