Mumbai: Two MBA students arrested in connection with the suspected drug overdose case at a music concert in Goregaon in April, which left two of their batchmates dead, told fellow students over a WhatsApp group that “pills” would be available at the concert, the chargesheet has revealed. A 3,500-page-long chargesheet was filed before a magistrate…
The police complaint was lodged on Thursday by one of the two girls who suffered electric shock Navi Mumbai: An FIR was registered against the suspended NMMC (zone-1) executive engineer (electrical) Pravin Gade at Nerul police station Thursday evening in the incident of two college girls Ujwala Wagh (19) and Shubhangi Balkhande (17) sustaining severe…
Mumbai: A television actor has been arrested by the city police for allegedly stalking, repeatedly calling, harassing and assaulting a 16-year-old girl in an eastern suburb. Police have booked him under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.Besides the stringent Pocso Act, Pant Nagar Police have also invoked the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)…
Citizens fill forms and submit documents during the SIR drive in Khadki, Pune. Pune: The state govt may write to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) seeking an extension to the timeline for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Congress MLC Satej Patil flagged the mounting workload on booth-level officers (BLOs), manpower shortages…
Residents said modifications were made to the structure over the years Thane: A 12-year-old boy was crushed to death, while his mother and his nine-year-old brother sustained head injuries after a portion of their nearly 30-year-old one-storey tenement collapsed on them in a chawl in Thane’s Azad Nagar on Friday.The mother, Urmila Jaiswar (35), and…
Between June 16 and July 6, the civic body had razed 30 out of 4,946 unauthorised structures Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has issued show-cause notices to 295 responsible persons and officers under whose tenure massive illegal constructions flourished. They include incumbent, transferred and retired 10 deputy municipal commissioners (DMC), 91 assistant…
The 11.4km east-west Metro 1 corridor, operational since 2014, carries more than 5 lakh commuters every day Mumbai: Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd (MMOPL), the operator of Mumbai’s Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar Metro 1, has secured a major debt restructuring agreement that will reduce its debt burden by more than Rs 1,100 crore, with the insolvency proceedings against…
Mumbai: The state assembly on Friday passed a Bill to reconstitute a public trust to manage the Shree Ram Mandir Devasthan in Vidarbha’s Ramtek district which mandates that members of the trust committee should be devotees of Shree Ram of Ramtek and make a declaration to this effect in a form, prior to their appointment.This…
Ulhasnagar: In a first-of-its-kind initiative to clean up its property tax database and improve revenue administration, the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) has identified nearly Rs 170 crore in outstanding property tax linked to non-existent or wrongly recorded properties under ‘Project Manthan’, a data-cleaning exercise launched by municipal commissioner Manisha Awhale.The project, being implemented by the…
NAVI MUMBAI: An FIR was registered against a BJP councillor in Mahad, Suraj Bamane, and two of his aides for assaulting the chief officer (administrative head) of Mahad municipal council Dhananjay Kolekar over alleged non-resolution of the problem of a damaged underground water pipeline which caused disruption of water supply in the councillor’s ward.The alleged…
