A 60-year-old man tragically lost his life after falling into an open manhole during drain maintenance in Sakinaka. MUMBAI: BMC on Thursday suspended four officials pending an inquiry after a 60-year-old man was swept to his death after falling into an open manhole during drain maintenance work in Sakinaka, an incident that triggered widespread outrage…
Mumbai/New Delhi: Amid a growing shift by industrial and commercial consumers to retail fuel stations to take advantage of lower prices, govt Friday issued fresh directions to limit bulk purchase and sale of petroleum products.The new directions aimed at preventing hoarding and diversion of fuel supplies meant for ordinary customers put specific limits on diesel…
Chess grandmaster Nihal Sarin is gearing up for Esports World Cup At 5 pm on a Wednesday, the massive wooden gates of Ghanshyam Villa in Navi Mumbai are closed. They look like they rarely open. There is no doorbell. “Knock, and the watchman will appear,” suggests a young neighbour. We obey. The watchman peeps through…
Man falls into open manhole during downpour (File Photo) MUMBAI: A 60-year-old man is missing after falling into an open stormwater drain during civic repair work in Mumbai, police said.The man, identified as Aslam Isak Shaikh, fell into the drain on Khairani Road in the city’s Sakinaka area, according to officials.Police said the incident happened…
A video from a Central Railway local shows a man in shabby attire threatening a fellow passenger MUMBAI: A week after a horrific murder of a passenger in a local train between Goregaon and Malad stations, a viral video captured on a Central Railway local has captured a shabbily dressed man threatening a co-passenger following…
HC posted the matter after four weeks Mumbai: Bombay HC on Tuesday asked the petitioner and the intervenor in a PIL that sought judicial intervention to prevent tree falls and any consequential injuries to submit to BMC their claim that 321 trees have yet not been de-concretised. Activist Sagar Ugale disputed BMC’s claim that only…
A university official clarified that the issue would be taken up in the next meeting of the council Mumbai: The Mumbai University’s management council, in a meeting held this week, decided not to seek a CID probe in the alleged BCom paper leak, days after the higher education minister, Chandrakant Patil, announced the decision in…
MUMBAI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for Mumbai, Raigad, Palghar and Thane on Thursday, warning of moderate to intense spells of rain at isolated places.The warning, issued at 7 am and valid for three hours, said such rain conditions are very likely to occur in isolated pockets across the region.The…
Mumbai/Navi Mumbai: Two people lost their lives in two separate slab collapse incidents in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in 24 hours.On Babulnath Road in Walkeshwar, a 51-year-old pedestrian, Santosh Bharaskar, employed at a nearby petrol pump, died after a portion of the third-floor balcony of a ground-plus-three-storey cessed Mhada building, Surya Prakash, crashed on the…
Mumbai: A day after 11-year-old Vihaan Srivastav died in a tree crash in Chembur, the BMC suspended three officials–Jagdish Bhoir, assistant garden superintendent of M-West ward, Arun Mundhe, sub-engineer from its roads and traffic department, M-West ward, and Yogesh Parte, assistant engineer of M-East ward–for alleged negligence, pending a departmental inquiry.Following Tuesday’s tragedy, BMC commissioner…
