Mumbai: Bombay high court on Monday directed the BMC to permit 99,435 hawkers across Mumbai, already found to be eligible, to hawk and to list others who are eligible from the balance 29,000. “No other hawkers” apart from these can be permitted, ruled Justices A S Gadkari and Kamal Khata, while also directing Mumbai civic…
Mumbai: A special court on Monday cleared the path for the extradition of a Ukrainian national from Moldova in the Rs 177-crore money laundering case linked to the Torres Jewellers ponzi scheme.Olena Stoian, an absconding accused, was traced to Moldova by Indian authorities. ED moved a plea for affirmation of an affidavit required for the…
Mumbai: The legislative council on Monday cleared Wildlife Protection (Maharashtra Amendment Bill), 2026, that empowers the chief wildlife warden to relocate and sterilise leopards without the Centre’s approval.The assembly had approved it on March 18. The bill will need the governor’s ratification and the President’s assent before it can be enacted. It was introduced to…
Mumbai: For the city’s youngest TB patients—some younger than five years of age—visits to the state-run JJ Hospital’s paediatric department have meant taking potent antibiotics every day for 20 months and undergoing monthly scans to check their eyesight, nerve conduction and heart rhythm.To change this painful association with hospital visits, the staff on Monday, the…
Thane: Two days after the co-founders of CoinDCX, Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal, were arrested by Mumbra police from Bengaluru for allegedly duping an insurance adviser of Rs 71.6 lakh over seven months, the complainant filed an affidavit before a Thane court on Monday, saying he has recovered his money from one of the six…
Kalyan: A doctor accused of duping several people of nearly Rs 70 lakh under the pretext of a running pharmacy was arrested on Monday after evading police for six months. His wife, a co-accused in the case, is still absconding, officials said.The accused, Dr Prasad Yadavrao Sali, was nabbed by a team led by assistant…
Mumbai: Mumbai has recorded a 28% drop in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases over the last three years, with annual resistant cases falling from 5,698 in 2022 to 4,080 in 2025.A total of 1,093 drug-resistant patients were on the newly introduced BPaLM regimen, which cuts down treatment time from 18 months to six months. Others…
Mumbai: Water supply to some areas of the H-West ward will be shut, while some areas will have low pressure supply on March 29, while few areas will be affected on March 28. The BMC will carry out work to commission a new 750 mm diameter main water pipeline between Ramdas Naik Marg, Swami Vivekanand…
Mumbai: A 16-year-old boy was allegedly killed by one of his friends in Santacruz (W) on Sunday after an altercation. The accused, also a 16-year-old, was apprehended and sent to juvenile custody, said police. The deceased was identified as Prem Harijan, who had recently appeared for his Class 10 examinations. Harijan lived in Santacruz (W),…
Mumbai: A 31-year-old woman, studying for UPSC, has lodged a police complaint against her ex-husband for accessing her Instagram account unauthorisedly and uploading their private images on it. Dindoshi Police have registered an FIR against the 31-year-old accused who is an Indian Railways employee.According to the FIR, the couple got married in 2020. However, their…
