As heavy downpours continue, Mumbai is on high alert with the IMD raising an orange signal MUMBAI: India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday retained the orange alert for Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), forecasting heavy to very heavy rainfall accompanied by gusty winds through the day, even as the sustained monsoon showers pushed…
Mumbai: Between 2023 and 2025, 99 people died of leptospirosis, malaria and dengue out of 236 suspected fatalities reviewed by the BMC’s death audit committee, according to the latest RTI data.Of the 32 suspected leptospirosis deaths last year — which is typically contracted by wading through waterlogged areas contaminated with animal or rodent urine —…
The autopsy showed the woman was strangled to death Mumbai: A 20-year-old man was arrested by Oshiwara police for the murder of his wife after he tried to pass it off as a natural death. His lies came to light when the postmortem examination concluded the death to be homicidal.Siraj Ansari lived with his wife,…
The victim, Ramesh, 42, (name changed to protect identity), was a resident of Devgaon in Murbad taluka and worked in the housekeeping department of a private company. His decomposed body was recovered on June 28, following which police registered a case of murder and destruction of evidence. Kalyan: Nearly a month after the decomposed body…
A day after students in Delhi were lathi-charged after the CJP protest devolved into chaos and 24 hours after Mumbai police detained a number of protesters MUMBAI: A day after students in Delhi were lathi-charged after the CJP protest devolved into chaos and 24 hours after Mumbai police detained a number of protesters, hundreds of…
The deceased, who lived in Shantinagar Chawl, was ailing and a habitual drunkard, his neighbours told the police Thane: A 36-year-old vegetable vendor was found dead in a pond along the Kalwa Railway Car Shed premises on Tuesday morning, officials informed.Senior inspector Prataprao Bhosale of Kalwa police station said they received an alert in the…
The statewide operation was carried out jointly by the MSRTC, the police department, and Regional Transport Offices (RTOs). The drive aimed to free ST bus station premises from illegal transport activities and improve passenger safety. Mumbai: In a major crackdown on illegal transport operations and unauthorised parking around State Transport (ST) bus stations, authorities across…
Mumbai: A special court on Tuesday allowed the CBI to summon and examine an additional prosecution witness in the Sheena Bora murder trial, which it as it its fag end with the 149th witness — CBI’s investigating officer K K Singh — deposing.The prosecution sought permission to examine Narayan Pathak, an employee of Worli’s Hotel…
Kalyan: A seven-year-old boy is battling for his life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Mumbai’s KEM Hospital after being mercilessly thrashed by his mother’s live-in partner. Police arrested accused Vikas Singh, 25, for allegedly attacking the child and kicking him in his private parts because he resented the boy sleeping next to his…
Dravita Singh was a victim of a ‘fatka robbery’ on Central Railway in 2018 Mumbai: Eight years after Kalyan resident Dravita Singh lost part of her limbs in a horrific instance of ‘fatka robbery’, the Railway Claims Tribunal (RCT) has allowed her claim partly and asked Central Railway to pay her Rs 4.2 lakh, plus…
