Mumbai: An inspection of the Kurla BEST depot by BEST committee member Ajay Singh, along with committee members Santosh Medhekar and Sanjay Wakode, has revealed a series of operational and infrastructural shortcomings affecting both staff and commuters.During the visit, the team interacted with drivers and conductors, who raised concerns about inadequate basic amenities, including poorly…
Photos capture the fire that erupted on the seventh floor of Atlantic Building MUMBAI: A 64-year-old man died and two firefighters were hospitalised after a fire broke out on the seventh floor of Atlantic Building on Sherly Rajan Road in Bandra West late on Wednesday night. The fire, which was brought under control close to…
Pic used for representation purpose Mumbai: As Mumbai tightens water supplies, developers and industrial users are recalibrating operations, bracing for higher costs, greater reliance on tankers and possible project delays even as they accelerate investment in water recycling and reuse.The BMC suspended water supply to construction sites and imposed a 20% cut on industrial and…
Vile Parle police have arrested the electric SUV driver Vilas Gavhankar (44) Mumbai: A 41-year-old woman died and two others suffered injuries after a speeding electric SUV struck their two-wheelers on the station road in Vile Parle (E) on Wednesday.Vile Parle police have arrested the SUV driver, Vilas Gavhankar (44), and booked him under Bharatiya…
Mumbai: A major fire broke out on the top floor of the residential ground-plus-seven-storey Atlantic Building on Sherly Rajan Road in Bandra West on Wednesday night, with one person feared trapped as firefighters battled to contain the blaze.According to the Mumbai Fire Brigade, the incident was reported at 9.12 pm through the civic control room….
The 16th witness gave an account of the violence that is alleged to have unfolded at Darul Uloom Imdadiya madrassa behind Suleman Usman Bakery in Dongri Mumbai: A sessions court conducting the trial in the 1993 Suleman Usman Bakery firing case heard the deposition on Wednesday of the 16th witness, who gave an account of…
Vanrai police have registered a case of rash driving and negligence against the driver Mumbai: A 67-year-old woman, crossing the road with her relatives, suffered serious injuries after being hit by a speeding motorist in Goregaon (E) on Monday and subsequently died in a hospital. Vanrai police have registered a case of rash driving and…
Mumbai: The director of Mumbai University’s Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE), Shivaji Sargar, has sparked a controversy after conducting a Satyanarayan puja and havan in his office on the Kalina campus last week, raising questions about administrative priorities amid ongoing student grievances.Activists from Maharashtra Navnirman Vidyarthi Sena (MNVS), under Amit Thackeray, have criticised…
The petition was filed on Tuesday by the People’s Union of Civil Liberties and the Forum Against Oppression of Women Mumbai: Civil rights activist groups on Tuesday moved Bombay high court challenging the constitutional validity of the Maharashtra Special Public Safety Act (MSPSA) enacted last year to control “the menace of naxalism”.The petition by the…
Jhanvi Kukreja’s mother Niddhi had moved the Bombay High Court against the acquittal in March Mumbai: The Bombay High Court division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Kamal Khata on Wednesday issued a notice to the state and Diya Padalkar, who was acquitted in the 2021 murder of her friend Jhanvi Kukreja (19) following…
