Mumbai: The anti-narcotics cell of Mumbai police on Wednesday recorded the statement of media influencer Orhan Awatramani alias Orry in connection with allegedly attending drug parties abroad. Police officials said Orry arrived at the Ghatkopar ANC unit around 1.30pm along with his lawyer and was in the office till late in the evening.The police are…
Mumbai: Central Railway has tracked down the woman whose video of cooking instant noodles in a household electric kettle inside the AC coach of an express train had gone viral. Chinchwad resident Saritatai Lingayat has been booked under Section 154 of the Railways Act for endangering the safety of passengers, said CR officials. They added…
Mumbai: Between November 20 and 26, BMC has received a total of 769 suggestions and objections from Mumbaikars to the ward-wise draft electoral roll, with the highest numbers emerging from the city’s eastern and northeastern pockets.M-East ward (Govandi) recorded 204 submissions, followed by T ward (Mulund) with 123. Other wards that saw notable participation include…
Mumbai: BMC is looking to designate community feeding spots for stray dogs and cats. Its veterinary health department has appealed to community animal feeders to register themselves with the civic body. BMC is likely to put up boards at the designated spots. Civic officials said these actions are being carried out as per Supreme Court’s…
Mumbai: A Congress delegation led by its city-chief and MP Varsha Gaikwad submitted a written complaint to Mumbai police commissioner Deven Bharti seeking registration of an FIR against BJP Mumbai chief Ameet Satam for allegedly issuing threat to her party leader and promoting disharmony between religious groups.Gaikwad stated in her complaint that she came across…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court this month quashed an FIR filed in 2022 against a set of parents-in-law for its vagueness in one Navi Mumbai case. In another case from April 2019 in Mumbai, the court spared octogenarian grandparents-in-law from being “subjected to further harassment by making them undergo the rigmarole of the trial” in…
Mumbai: The state govt has sanctioned Rs 2 crore to celebrate Chacha Nehru Bal Mahotsav in the state. The funds were approved by the Women and Child Development Department, headed by NCP minister Aditi Tatkare. “In order to develop the latent qualities of all children in the state, especially orphans, destitute, and wayward children admitted…
Mumbai: Male Royal Bengal tiger Shakti at Byculla’s Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and Zoo, who had been brought along with female Royal Bengal Tiger Karishma from the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar zoo on Feb 12, 2020, died last week aged 9.6 years, said zoo officials.Dr Sanjay Tripathi, director of the facility, called the Royal Bengal tiger…
Mumbai: As all top ministers in the Mahayuti govt are busy campaigning for local body polls, there was no state cabinet meeting on Tuesday. This was supposed to be the first cabinet meeting after the rumblings surfaced between Mahayuti partners Shiv Sena and BJP last week over poaching of former corporators and functionaries, especially in…
Royal Bengal tiger ‘Shakti’ at Byculla Zoo. (PTI File Photo) MUMBAI: The Royal Bengal Tiger Shakti (male)at Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan & Zoo, Byculla, that had been brought along with another Royal Bengal Tiger Karishma (female) from Siddharth Garden & Zoo, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on February 12, 2020, under an animal exchange programme has died…
