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Mumbai: Three people have been booked by Pelhar police in Nalasopara for allegedly hurting religious sentiments during celebrations after the Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation results were declared on Jan 16.The FIR was registered late Monday after Shivkumar Pandey, of an organisation Rashtrapratham, filed a complaint at Pelhar police station. One of the suspects apologised after…

Mumbai: The BMC has told the Bombay high court that at 662 construction sites sensor-based air quality monitors have not yet been installed. There are 1,954 ongoing construction sites within BMC limits.The BMC filed its reply affidavit to the HC’s Dec 24 order to submit status reports “demonstrating tangible and measurable results evidencing reduction in…

Mumbai, India is set for a bright and clear Wednesday, January 21, 2026, with sunny conditions and comfortable winter warmth expected throughout the day. Temperatures are projected to reach approximately 28.5°C and then decrease to 21.5°C overnight, with no rainfall anticipated. However, air quality remained in the “Poor” category yesterday, and these conditions may persist…

Mumbai: An assistant manager with a renowned temple in Juhu that also runs an ashram guest house lodged a police complaint after guests were being conned through a fake reservations website. Juhu Police have registered an FIR and are looking for the accused.The complainant said his co-workers found out about the fake website and alerted…

Mumbai: The Metropolitan Magistrate court acquitted a businessman in a nearly two-decade-old smuggling case, holding that the prosecution failed to prove the charges beyond reasonable doubt. The Customs had detained the businessman who was to take a flight to Sharjah in Nov 2006 suspecting him of carrying contraband to Sharjah. The search of his baggage…

MUMBAI: Bombay HC on Tuesday refused bail to a veterinary doctor from Amravati who was booked for the 2022 murder of a chemist who posted on a WhatsApp group in support of then BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma who made a controversial comment outraging the Muslim community. Umesh Kolhe was murdered on June 21, 2022, around…

MUMBAI: A sessions court Monday issued a stern warning to nine students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) seeking anticipatory bail, observing their involvement in a criminal case could permanently damage their professional future.The students are under investigation for organising an unauthorised event on the TISS campus at Deonar to commemorate the first death…

Mumbai: A two-year-old girl’s entire liver was removed for four-and-a-half hours to take out a massive tumour, before the salvaged portion of the organ was successfully replanted to save her life. Such procedures were so far performed in adults, but her doctors turned to it as a last resort.The ideal option was a transplant, but…

Thane: Holding that there was a complete absence of evidence and no prima facie case made out against her, a magistrate court discharged India’s best known woman private detective, Rajani Pandit, in a 2018 case of alleged illegal procurement of call detail records (CDRs).The arrest of Pandit, touted as the country’s first female private eye,…

Mumbai: If professional education had a postcode this year, it would be Pune. Data from the state’s common entrance test (CET) cell shows that it has decisively pulled ahead as the preferred base from which students register for professional courses, leaving Nashik at a distant second and Mumbai in third place.Pune accounted for over 1.1…