Thane: A 55-year-old unidentified man died after allegedly slipping into the gap between 2 coaches of a suburban train at Thane railway station on Tuesday evening.The incident occurred around 6 pm on Platform 5. Officials said it was not immediately clear whether the man was attempting to board or alight from a Dadar–Kalyan local that…
Mumbai: Deepak Pawar, husband of Tejal Pawar, an independent candidate contesting from Ward 226 (Sassoon Docks) against BJP’s Makarand Narwekar, has alleged the police have externed two men who do not have a criminal background for 15 days due to pressure from Narwekar, as they were seen supporting him and his wife. Police said one…
Mumbai: The Mumbai University has come down heavily on colleges and students who failed to submit completed enrollment forms for first-year undergraduate and postgraduate admissions within the stipulated deadline. In a first, the university’s management council has decided to impose heavy fines, ranging from Rs 2 to 10 lakh on colleges, for erroneous or missing…
Mumbai: Defying the popular perception that highly-qualified professionals shy away from electoral politics, the upcoming BMC elections has several academically-accomplished candidates. Among them is a PhD graduate from IIT Bombay who served with the govt body CDAC and later as a professor at Pennsylvania State University, an MBA graduate from London Metropolitan University, and a…
Navi Mumbai: The sprawling Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) at Vashi will not be shifted, but only be modernised under a redevelopment plan, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said, while addressing a BJP election rally at Airoli on Monday. He also urged people not to believe rumours that the wholesale market yard would move to a…
Mumbai: A BEST employee was duped of Rs 4.16 lakh by a cyberfraudster after he downloaded a malicious apk file presuming it to be a traffic e-challan. Dindoshi Police have registered an FIR and are probing further.The 56-year-old complainant resides in Goregaon East with his wife and grown children. He works as an electrician with…
Thane: The first ever civic elections in Thane under the Shiv Sena (UBT)-MNS alliance is seeing the Thackeray cousins Uddhav and Raj taking on Mahayuti, led locally by deputy CM Eknath Shinde, in over 12 key seats, including some of the Shiv Sena chief’s traditional pocket boroughs.Among the bigger flashpoints is ward 9 in Naupada-Kopri…
Mumbai: Political controversy erupted after alleged bookie Sonu Jalan organised a political meeting in a housing society for BJP minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha in Malad on Tuesday. While Lodha said society resident Aslam Shaikh, a Congress MLA, planted Jalan in the meeting, Shaikh said Lodha dragged his name into the controversy instead of providing an…
Mumbai: Central Railway (CR) will reintroduce AC local services on the Harbour line from Jan 26 with 14 services, including one each in the morning and evening peak hours. Meanwhile, Western Railway (WR) will add about a dozen AC local services by converting some of its existing non-AC locals.CR’s Harbour move is a comeback. The…
Navi Mumbai: MNS Navi Mumbai city president Gajanan Kale summoned a press conference in Turbhe on Monday where he alleged that a worker of Shiv Sena was distributing money to woo voters during the NMMC general election in Koparkhairane ward panel number 11A. Kale even displayed a video clip of a Sena activist being cornered…
