MUMBAI: A 40-year-old man was arrested by Samta Nagar Police for sexually assaulting a female dog in Kandivali East. The case was reported by a local social worker.According to the FIR, the social worker was returning home from her uncle’s place on 1 February when she saw a crowd near a drain by Lokhandwala Complex.She…
Navi Mumbai: The alertness of a Vashi couple helped them avert a cyber fraud by immediately contacting the police after being sent a malicious ‘apk link’ asking to open the link by claiming that Rs 15 lakh has been debited to their bank account due to purchase on Amazon delivery app. Shashikant Chandekar, SI of…
MUMBAI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday announced Ghatkopar corporator Ritu Tawde as its mayoral candidate for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The announcement was made by Mumbai BJP president Ameet Satam at the civic headquarters, in the presence of senior party leaders and corporators.Read also: BJP names Ritu Tawde as Mumbai mayoral candidate;…
MUMBAI: The BJP on Saturday announced Ghatkopar corporator Ritu Tawde as its mayoral candidate for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The announcement was made by Mumbai BJP president Ameet Satam at the civic headquarters, in the presence of senior party leaders and corporators who had gathered for the meeting.Tawde’s name had been doing the rounds,…
MUMBAI: The Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) has awarded its highest-ever commercial land development project to Oberoi Realty Ltd after the developer emerged as the top bidder for aprime railway land parcel in Bandra East with a bid of Rs 5,400 crore, officials said on Thursday.The deal, one of the largest real estate transactions in…
MUMBAI: The petitions filed in HC by senior advocate Haresh Jagtiani and stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra contended that Rule 3(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Amendment Rules, 2023), as amended in Oct 2025, and the Sahyog Portal “are illegal and beyond the scope of the IT Act, and in…
Navi Mumbai: The passing-the-buck from PCMC to Cidco has put several building development projects on hold in village areas with private land ownership over land acquisition clarity issues. The PCMC seeks clarity from the builders/developers/land owners by seeking Cidco’s No Objection Certificate (NOC) to approve their building plan. However, Cidco allegedly gives vague replies that…
Thane: The Anti-Narcotics Cell of Thane City Crime Branch arrested a 20-year-old man with four country-made pistols and live ammunition worth over Rs 4 lakh near Bhiwandi, officials said.Acting on a tip-off from police hawaldar Amol Desai, a team intercepted Sohil Beg Shorab Beg Mirza, a resident of Alampur in Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh,…
Thane: The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) collected Rs 556.2 crore in property tax for 2025–26 by Jan end, falling more than Rs 200 crore short of its annual target of Rs 841 crore, a major revenue setback for the cash-strapped civic body.Property tax is one of TMC’s largest sources of income, funding key civic services…
Thane: A sessions court convicted a Bangladeshi couple of illegally entering and residing in India without valid documents and ordered their deportation after they completed their sentence of one year and 10 days of simple imprisonment.Riyaz Almin Mulla (24) and his wife, Soniya alias Sathi Riyaj Mulla (22), were arrested by Shil-Diaghar police on Jan…
