No one was hurt in the incident as the accused was immediately overpowered and disarmed by police constable Vishal Gade Mumbai: Panic gripped the area outside Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) on Saturday evening when a 20-year-old inebriated man allegedly brandished a sickle and threatened his girlfriend and passersby. No one was hurt in the…
The doctor was appointed on contract through Sai Sanjeevani Services Mumbai: The State Human Rights Commission has taken up the case of an alleged ‘bogus doctor’ who was found posted in the ICU at VN Desai Hospital in 2024. The hearing is scheduled to start on July 9.The hospital found that Dr Bharat Sawant, appointed…
The MMRDA plans to acquire 104.2851 hectares of land for the project Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has begun the process for acquiring land for the first phase of the proposed Rs 58,754.71-crore Uttan-Virar sea link by issuing a 15-day notice to landowners in Uttan village to indicate whether they are willing…
MUMBAI: On a Wednesday afternoon, 20 young people in a drama studio in Govandi are working on a performance unlike most the city has seen. Words come slow and deliberate—or in a sprint. Expressions resist easy reading. Lines find their own rhythm. And if the audience fails to read between the lines, the play’s theme…
Late on Tuesday, 21-year-old Mayank Lohar (L) was knifed to death by a co-traveller, Roshan Suvarna (R), following an altercation over closing the door of the train compartment amid heavy rain. MUMBAI: In the aftermath of the horrific murder of a young passenger on a local train, the Govt Railway Police (GRP) plans to intensify…
Mumbai: A 68-year-old cabbie was killed in a hit-and-run while he stood next to his stationary cab at Aarey Colony recently. Police said he was hit by a tempo driver who fled from the location. An FIR was registered against the tempo driver subsequently.The deceased, Mazrul Khan, lived in Andheri East with his son, Iztekhar,…
Mumbai: Mumbai Central Prison, more commonly known as Arthur Road Jail, has completed a century housing the city’s most dangerous and controversial residents — from the smuggler barons of the 1960s to the rival gangs who turned the prison into a battlefield in the 1990s, to the present-day white-collar accused who are vocal about the…
Mumbai: The Byculla police have arrested a 39-year-old Pune resident after they caught him distributing capsules mixed with zinc phosphide, a highly toxic acute rodenticide to control rats and mice, to devotees participating in a Moharram procession at Byculla late on Friday.Police recovered 1,400 capsules from Faiyyaz Premji, 39, a resident of Viman Nagar in…
MUMBAI: Byculla police have arrested a 39-year-old Pune resident after they caught him distributing capsules mixed with zinc phosphide, a highly toxic acute rodenticide to control rats and mice, to devotees participating in a Moharram procession at Byculla late on Friday.Police recovered 1,400 capsule from Faiyyaz Premji, a resident of Viman Nagar in Pune.One of…
The Khan family proposes to construct a ground-plus-stilt-plus-six-storey residential building with a total built-up area of 1,014.11 sq metres Mumbai: Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) has granted clearance to a proposal for a new sea-facing residential building owned by actor Salman Khan’s mother, Salma Khan, in Bandra (West). The Intimation of Disapproval (IOD) for…
