Mumbai: Police registered two cases of abetment to suicide at the MHB Colony and Kandivli police stations. In the first case, police arrested Gautam Tribhuvan for allegedly abetting his 36-year-old wife, who hanged herself with a dupatta at their Dahisar residence. Police said he subjected her to mental and physical harassment over a trivial family…
Navi Mumbai: Uran police on Saturday arrested a 49-year-old man accused of murdering his 90-year-old widowed mother-in-law Hirabai Janardhan Joshi. PI (crime) Sanjay Joshi said, “Patil was angry as he was unable to get his share of his mother-in-law’s ancestral property, as she was donating money she got from selling land to her relatives for…
Mumbai faces a surge in cyber financial fraud, with over 20,000 cases and Rs 2,000 crore lost since 2020, yet recoveries are minimal (AI image) MUMBAI: Mumbai is seeing a surge in cyber financial fraud, with nearly 20,000 cases reported since 2020 and losses crossing Rs 2,000 crore, yet recoveries remain minimal. Victims, from businesswomen…
Mumbai: Over 20,000 runners from across India and 71 international participants from 19 countries took part in the eighth edition of the Western Naval Command Navy Half Marathon 2025 in Mumbai on Sunday. The annual event is embedded in the Indian Navy’s calendar to be held every third Sunday of Nov.The Navy spokesperson said, “Over…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) has been headless and without its six nominated members since the end of the last board’s tenure on May 3. The vacancies have crippled the commission’s functioning—an RTI plea filed recently showed that 1,431 cases have piled up as bureaucrats alone handle administrative work.The…
Thane: Two men died and another person was injured in a car accident on Nashik-Mumbai highway in the early hours of Sunday, a police official said. The incident took place near Atgaon, the Shahapur police station official said.“The victims Mayuresh Vinod Chaudhary (29), Jayesh Kisan Shende (25) and Harshal Pandurang Jadhav (29) were returning from…
Mumbai: Between April and Oct, ticket-checking teams of Central Railway (CR) identified and penalised 9.6 lakh cases of irregular travel, recovering penalties totalling Rs 40 crore. These efforts covered both Mail and Express trains as well as suburban services, including AC and non-AC locals.This move came after a concerted effort to curb fraudulent ticketing and…
Navi Mumbai: Compassion isn’t a word Reuben Philip takes lightly. He owes his life to a stranger’s act of love as he lay beside his dying mother in a Bhandup slum 26 years ago. The mother had just one request: take the child; there was no one else to care for him. The man, pastor…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) has rolled out a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) wherein it will appoint an official to execute and register documents such as sale agreement or cancellation deed in case of default in compliance of its orders. MahaRERA issued a circular to this effect following a Bombay high court…
Kolhapur: Deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday said he had no differences with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and blamed the electronic media for creating a false perception for the sake of TRP.Shinde, who was in Solapur to address rallies for Nagar Parishad polls, said contesting elections against BJP did not mean there was animosity…
