Mumbai: A court in Maharashtra’s Beed district on Wednesday rejected a plea against former state minister and NCP leader Dhananjay Munde filed by a woman claiming to be his first wife, alleging concealment of vital information in his 2024 election nomination papers.Judicial Magistrate (Parli Vaijnath) Dipak Borde ruled that the complainant, Karuna Munde, has not…
Mumbai: Regular walkers and joggers at the Bandra (West) Fort garden were surprised to see work being carried out in the space barely a year after it was inaugurated.Long-time Bandra resident Naresh Fernandes, in a post on social media X, said, “November 2024, Bandra fort beautification project inaugurated at a cost of Rs 17 crore….
MUMBAI: The Regional Transport Office as well as the technical team which conducted a preliminary inspection of the BEST bus that rammed into and killed four people and injured 10 outside Bhandup railway station on Monday night, have prime facie ruled out any technical issue with the vehicle, while hinting at human error. The bus…
MUMBAI: With seat sharing within two major alliances (BJP-Shiv Sena and Shiv Sena UBT-MNS) finalised only late on Monday, the final day of filing nominations for the BMC polls on Tuesday saw a last-minute scramble for submission of forms. Several candidates were still in queue at 6pm to submit their duly-filled papers. Those who had…
MUMBAI: Central Railway marked 2025 as a milestone year, combining heritage, performance and forward-looking transformation across its network. The year also commemorated 100 years of electrification, recalling the first electric train run from Victoria Terminus (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus) to Coorla (now Kurla) on the Harbour Line in 1925, a defining moment that began…
MUMBAI: Over 900 railway policemen will be deployed on Dec 31 bandobast on Western and Central Railway. “Our priorities will be crowd control , women’s safety and anti terror checks,” said Mumbai GRP commissioner M Rakesh Kalasagar. The GRP bandobast will be overnight and will be concentrated at Churchgate station, CSMT, Marine Lines station and…
Yasmin Karachiwala’s new house in the Bandra West’s society MUMBAI: The 55-year-old celebrity fitness instructor, Yasmin Karachiwala, has recently purchased two elite 4-BHK ocean-facing homes worth Rs 37.5 crore at Paradigm’s ultra-luxury Superstar-Signature Edition (Marquis Collection) on Bandra West.Karachiwala, the trainer to stars like Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone, Bipasha Basu, Nora Fatehi, Ananya Pandey, Hrithik…
MUMBAI: Very few institutions endure for 200 years, a span long enough to slip beyond collective memory. Besides landmarks such as Babulnath temple and the Elephanta Caves, there are only a handful of monuments or institutions that have celebrated a bicentenary in the city. Among them is a little-known school across the road from Byculla…
MUMBAI: The occasion was the silver jubilee function of Noor Mehr Charitable Trust and its Jamia Tajwidul Quran and Noor Meher Urdu High School at Malvani in Malad West on Tuesday. Twenty-five alumni, old boys who have passed from this institution in the last 25 years, came together to celebrate the silver jubilee. And each…
Rose a 32-year-old sex worker who was arrested in a police raid — was a bundle of nerves when advocate Sunita Salsingi – kar first met her in a prison in Ma – harashtra. “She was a simple, quiet woman… she had no idea why she had been arrested,” recalled Salsingikar. That was three years…
