Mumbai: Suburban and some long-distance train services on Western Railway will face early morning disruption on Sunday due to a major block at Prabhadevi for girder-related work, along with a jumbo block in the Vasai Road–Virar section during the intervening night of March 21 and 22.The traffic and power block on all lines at Prabhadevi…
Stat In a bid to mitigate flooding during the upcoming monsoon, BMC will deploy 547 dewatering pumps across vulnerable locations in the city on a hire basis. The civic body has floated a two-year contract for the same at a cost of Rs 142 crores. Of the total, 146 pumps will be stationed in the…
Mumbai: MSRTC chairman Pratap Sarnaik on Friday told media that a transparent and competitive tender process, conducted without allowing any interference, has helped the bus corporation secure a diesel discount at Rs 5.13 per litre, compared with the earlier Rs 3.He said the additional saving of Rs 2.13 per litre was expected to reduce MSRTC’s…
Mumbai: Congress president Varsha Gaikwad on Friday launched a sharp attack on the BJP, holding the govts at the Centre and in Maharashtra responsible for the issue of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.She challenged mayor Ritu Tawde, a BJP corporator, to seek accountability from top leadership of her party over the issue. Gaikwad said if illegal Bangladeshis…
Inside the IIT-Bombay campus in Powai where he once spent four years, alumnus Rajan Verma is reading a book that does not belong to him. Titled ‘Zero To One’, it was kept in the nearby ‘reading corner’ of the campus post office—a mini library stacked with bestsellers. As he waits for a friend to post…
Mumbai: Maharashtra this week became the 13th state to pass a bill to prohibit unlawful conversions. Like Odisha, which brought in such a legislation first in 1968 and was followed by Madhya Pradesh and other states, criminalising religious conversions based on coercion, fraud or marriage based on allurement or deceit, the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion…
Thane: Police arrested a serial burglar from Titwala who allegedly carried out nearly 50 house break-ins across Thane’s suburbs eluding police attention for over three years, stealing gold collectively worth about Rs 1.3 crore. The accused targeted residential pockets in Mumbra and Diva, focusing on ground-floor homes with no CCTV or security guards around. “He…
Thane: A Thane sessions court acquitted five men accused in a 2018 kidnapping and murder case, observing that the prosecution failed to establish a complete chain of circumstantial evidence in the alleged “train throw” killing. Principal District and Sessions Judge S. B. Agrawal, in a judgment delivered on Wednesday, cleared Ravi Ashok Choudhary (37), Rajendraprasad…
Navi Mumbai: A six-year-old boy drowned in a swimming pool at a private resort off Nagaon beach in Alibag taluka on Thursday while his family stepped away to their room for a short while to change out of their wet clothes. There was no guard or staffer around. Alibag police inspector Kishor Sale said an…
Mumbai: An eight-year-old boy died after falling into a pit filled with water at an unbarricaded construction site in Malad East on Thursday night. He had gone to the site across the road from his home to retrieve a ball he was playing with after dinner. The body was discovered by his father, who had…
