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MUMBAI: All vehicles on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway have been diverted to the old Mumbai-Pune Highway following a gas tanker overturn in the Khandala Ghat section. However, traffic continues to remain congested on the ghat on Wednesday.Traffic on the expressway was paralysed overnight after the tanker overturned, leaving hundreds of vehicles stranded and causing massive congestion…

MUMBAI: A 21-year-old student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay died by suicide after allegedly jumping from the terrace of a hostel on the campus, police said on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Naman Agarwal, a second-year BTech Civil Engineering student. He was a native of Pilani in Rajasthan and was…

PUNE: Gangster Subham Lonkar, who allegedly masterminded the firing at filmmaker Rohit Shetty’s Juhu bungalow, had paid Rs 40,000 to two of the suspects to arrange the scooter used in the attack. The lone gunman came on the scooter and fired five rounds at the bungalow shortly after midnight Sunday, before abandoning it 2km away.Mumbai…

Mumbai: Applications for professional courses under the NRI quota in private colleges across the state plunged from 1,392 in 2024-25 to just 173 this academic year — a near 90% drop — after Maharashtra govt tightened norms to ‘curb misuse’ of the category, showed data from the state’s CET cell. This quota allows students who…

Mumbai: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the special leave petition filed by Enforcement Directorate (ED), challenging the bail granted to the former municipal commissioner of Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC), Anil Pawar, in a money laundering case.In October 2025, the Bombay high court granted bail to Pawar, terming his Aug 13 arrest “illegal”. The…

Mumbai: The Union Budget 2026-27 has exempted basic customs duty on 17 critical cancer drugs to reduce treatment costs, but it seems to offer little more than a “grim reality check” for patients’ families. According to an analysis by public health researchers, even with the tax break, the annual cost for these medicines, considered path-breaking,…

Pune: The state registration department ruled out a waiver of stamp duty and would initiate coercive recovery proceedings against Amadea Enterprises LLP if it fails to clear by Feb 10 the pending dues related to a land registration in Pune’s Mundhwa, senior officials said on Tuesday.“There is no question of a waiver. The order passed…

Navi Mumbai: Horse dung is polluting water, soil and air in Matheran, according to a recent study conducted by a joint committee formed by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board. The current horse-based transport and waste management regime is environmentally unsustainable and ecologically incompatible with the eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) mandates of the hill station, it cautioned.The committee’s…

Mumbai: Observing that a responsible police officer is expected to act within the ambit of the law and not on the instructions of home minister to perform illegal activities, a special court on Tuesday dismissed a plea by dismissed cop Sachin Waze to drop proceedings in a money laundering case involving former state home minister…

Mumbai: A special PMLA court on Monday accepted the closure of a nearly decade-old money laundering investigation involving Multi Commodity Exchange India Ltd (MCX), Financial Technologies India Ltd (FTIL), and their promoter Jignesh Shah. The decision came after ED sought to drop the proceedings, citing the lack of a “predicate offence”, the foundational criminal case…