Mumbai: A 28-year-old Uttar Pradesh man employed in a poultry shop in Andheri (East) was found dead with a head injury in an open plot on Marol-Sahar pipeline on Wednesday. The Andheri police solved the murder within eight hours and arrested two persons, including the victim’s cousin, by analysing 15 phone calls in victim Mohit…
MUMBAI: Three minors have been detained by the Bangur Nagar Police for a series of motorcycle thefts in the western suburbs. They told investigators that none of the stolen bikes were sold and they only committed crimes for taking joyrides.The latest incident was reported at Malad West on the night of Nov 24 when a…
Mumbai: Bombay high court has dismissed appeals of the occupants of eight structures on a housing society’s land abutting Kandivli West railway station.“These appellants before me are nothing but illegal hawkers and land grabbers which grab any vacant spaces outside railway stations, which are high density footfall areas for hawking their business. This menace has…
MUMBAI: Four people including a woman have been arrested by Aarey Police for honey-trapping and robbing a businessman of gold ornaments after luring him into a desolate part of Aarey Colony, Goregaon East.Police teams scanned through footage from 17 surveillance cameras for tracing some of the suspects.The 45-year-old businessman is based out of Deonar. According…
MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Wednesday asked a childless couple seeking assisted reproductive treatment at a central Mumbai in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) centre to inform it whether they will make use of sperm and egg donation for conceiving a child.“Please make a proper, clear statement to that effect,” said Justices Riyaz Chagla and Farhan Dubash.The IVF…
MUMBAI: The Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP), which controls over 5,000 community apartments in the city, has been put on the backfoot following objections against the allotment of a south Mumbai flat to a family that is alleged to own multiple properties.For perhaps the first time, three of the six BPP trustees have publicly opposed the…
Mumbai: A special POCSO court has convicted and sentenced a 35-year-old man to three years’ rigorous imprisonment for inappropriately touching a 14-year-old boy waiting at Kurla bus stop and propositioning him in 2018.Special judge P N Rao, in his verdict issued this week, found the boy’s deposition “reliable, trustworthy and inspiring confidence”, noting that the…
MUMBAI: A volcano erupts in Ethiopia and offers a cop-out over 4,000km away. Maharashtra govt’s additional govt pleader, Jyoti Chavan, suggested in Bombay HC Thursday that the plume of ash thrown up by Hayli Gubbi in the east African nation was responsible for Mumbai’s worsening air quality “for the last two days”.The bench of CJ…
On a Monday evening in South Mumbai, the 200-year-old Jabreshwar Mahadev Temple lights up, not just with the familiar aarti glow, but with the energy of over 100 young Mumbaikars swaying, clapping and singing bhajans in unison. With many such sessions being held across the city, it looks like Mumbai’s playlist is changing.‘It’s like a…
Mumbai’s BMC is stepping up its game with new outdoor advertising rules aimed at reducing glare from digital billboards to ensure safer driving conditions. This updated regulation, which takes precedence over the previous 2008 guidelines, also greenlights advertising on the exteriors of construction sites and barricades. MUMBAI: In its Policy Guidelines for Display of Outdoor…
