MUMBAI: A 20-year-old man was killed in a gruesome daylight attack in Mumbai’s Dharavi area, police said on Monday, adding that the accused has been arrested and booked for murder.The victim, identified as Ashwin Shivkumar Nadar, was allegedly stabbed more than 20 times by his acquaintance, Ashiq Asim Akhtar Khan, who also slit his throat….
Mumbai: City-based NGO Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) collected Rs 1 crore in zakat funds to help stop dropouts among poor school children. Zakat is 2.5% of annual savings Muslims give in charity.AMP president Aamir Edresy at a function in the city said that Rs 1 crore collected in just 15 days of the month…
Mumbai: The body of an unidentified man was found in the Dahisar river on Saturday evening, police said. The MHB Police registered an case of accidental death. No injury marks were found on the body, which was sent to Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivli (W) for post-mortem. Police said no documents or phone were found on…
Mumbai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized 11,060 prohibited walkie-talkie sets of Rs 2.5 crore, and second-hand hard disk drives (HDDs) worth Rs 6.75 crore, collectively valued at Rs 9.2 crore at Nhava Sheva Port in Navi Mumbai, officials said. These devices require specific licences. A father-son duo, owners of two Mumbai firms…
A 72-year-old woman died after a fire erupted in her Goregaon East apartment MUMBAI: A 72-year-old woman lost her life after a fire broke out in a ground plus 24 storeyed building at Goregaon East at around 7.30 pm. According to the fire brigade, the fire broke out in a flat on the sixth floor…
Palghar: Police have registered a case against more than 15 persons for allegedly obstructing a construction work and demanding money from a sub-contractor in Palghar district, officials said on Sunday. The accused allegedly threatened labourers and forced them to flee the site where he was overseeing the construction. Source link
Nagpur: Datta Meghe, one of Vidarbha’s most enduring political figures and also the founder of one of the state’s largest private education networks, passed away on Sunday at the age of 89. Meghe’s younger son Sameer Meghe, a BJP MLA from Hingna, said, “My father never refused to help anyone who came to him.” He…
Mumbai: Several street lights along the Mahim beach are non-functional, leaving large stretches of the area in darkness after sunset, said local activists. Mahim social worker Syed M. Ismail has urged the BEST electricity wing and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to immediately restore and expand street lighting at Mahim’s Reti Bunder Beach, warning that poor…
Navi Mumbai: A major fire broke out in a G+3 storeyed commercial building located in the bylane of sector 23, Turbhe, near the flyover opposite to NMMT bus depot on Sunday evening. Three shops including a hardware store, an electronic shop and ceramic shop were gutted in the fire, informed Rohan Kokate, fire officer of…
Mumbai: BMC has got only one bid for the around Rs 980-crore tender floated last Oct for turnkey development of common infrastructure facilities at the Deonar abattoir complex as part of modernisation plans even after several deadline extensions. It also received only two proposals for four separate requests for proposal (RFPs), worth over Rs 250…
