MUMBAI: A 19-year-old first-year BSc student from Kalyan died by suicide Tuesday after he was harassed and assaulted in a local train by fellow commuters for speaking in Hindi and not Marathi, alleged his father.Arnav Khaire, a student of Kelkar College in Mulund, was travelling in a second-class compartment as his first-class season pass had…
Ambernath: In a major crackdown on industrial pollution, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued closure notices to 13 companies operating in the Morivali MIDC area of Ambernath. The action follows a surge in public complaints over deteriorating air quality in the MIDC region and surrounding residential localities in recent months.Residents had repeatedly reported…
Thane: An 81-year-old man from Ghodbunder Road lost Rs 86.9 lakh to fraudsters who lured him into investing in cryptocurrency with promises of high returns. The man, in his police complaint, alleged that the fraud began in June when he received a Facebook friend request from a woman calling herself Leela Gupta. After accepting the…
Thane: The Ghodbunder Highway widening project has encountered yet another setback after planners failed to account for shifting a vast network of overhead and underground electricity lines along the stretch. Officials said the oversight will add Rs 90 crore to the project cost and further delay the work, which was recently scheduled for Jan 2026…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court has quashed and set aside a reservation by the joint registrar of cooperative societies that permitted a developer to form a separate cooperative society for 14 shops within a residential complex in Ulwe in Navi Mumbai. “The registrar cannot create rights that are not in the statute or the approved…
Mumbai: The Sainis from Malad know about premature births. Their first-born, now four, was born prematurely at 25 weeks of pregnancy and weighed 550 gm. Yet, their second daughter, who was also born at 25 weeks of gestation on June 30, stunned them as she weighed only 350 gm.“She weighed less than an apple and…
Mumbai: Two days after the Rs 4,165-crore tender to outsource garbage collection and transportation hit a hurdle as contractors quoted 34% to 64% above BMC’s cost estimates, the civic administration seems to have returned to the drawing board. Senior officials have been re-examining their internal calculations and have held discussions with bidders to understand their…
Mumbai: If an area’s Air Quality Index (AQI) remains consistently above 200 despite ongoing mitigation efforts, industries and construction activities responsible for the air pollution will be shut down under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP-4), BMC stated on Thursday.GRAP-4, civic officials said, is the last step after all measures to control pollution in an…
Mumbai: A 17-year-old girl died by suicide reportedly after being repeatedly threatened by her boyfriend that he would morph her photograph and circulate it. Goregaon police have regisetred a case of abetment against her boyfriend. No arrest has been made.Police said the girl was found hanging at her residence at Goregaon earlier this week. Earlier,…
Bhiwandi: Bhiwandi-Nizampura City Municipal Corporation (BNCMC) has initiated a large-scale road widening project after directives issued by CM Devendra Fadnavis, who in June this year instructed authorities to widen the road parallel to Metro Line 5 work. The CM had stressed that both projects should progress simultaneously to deliver long-term congestion relief to citizens.The municipal…
