Mumbai

Mumbai: During the CNG crisis between Sunday and Tuesday, Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) secured additional gas from Gujarat Gas and kept its four other city gate stations at Mahape, Ambernath, Taloja, and Raigad open. This ensured that cooking and commercial gas supplies remained unaffected and BEST buses received fuel for uninterrupted service, said MGL managing…

Thane: Police have registered an FIR against Shamim Khan, a local leader of the NCP (SP), after a video surfaced purportedly showing him shouting “Pakistan Zindabad” during a protest in Mumbra. The clip, which began circulating on WhatsApp earlier this week, allegedly captures Khan raising the slogans near Jama Masjid, adjacent to the Kausa petrol…

Mumbai: A team of Navi Mumbai Police on Wednesday visited Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray‘s residence to serve a notice to his son Amit Thackeray in connection with a case registered against the latter.Amit Thackeray is facing a case for allegedly forcibly unveiling a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Nerul.Officials of Nerul police…

Mumbai: On Wednesday, the city woke up to its coldest November morning in 13 years as IMD’s Santacruz observatory, representative of Mumbai, recorded a minimum temperature of 16.2°C, which is 5° below normal for this time of year. Previously, the lowest minimum temperature for November was in 2012, when the mercury dipped to 14.6°C.The city’s…

Mumbai: A fresh petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court challenging the BMC’s decision to introduce a pigeon-feeding zone in Mulund.The petitioner, Sagar Devre, filed an intervention application arguing the civic body’s move violates the high court’s previous directive, which upheld the closure of pigeon coops and explicitly barred the creation of new…

Mumbai: Opposing the bail plea of court clerk Chandrakant Vasudev in a Rs 15 lakh bribery case allegedly involving an absconding additional sessions judge, the state ACB submitted that the court staffer had made frequent WhatsApp calls to the judge even after office hours. The ACB’s reply submitted before the special court on Wednesday said…

Mumbai: Nearly a third of all B Pharm seats in Maharashtra remain vacant even after the completion of all admission rounds conducted by the state’s CET cell. Despite a total intake capacity of 46,350 seats across 531 institutes, as many as 15,936 seats are still unfilled after the cutoff date for admissions. More than 50,000…

Mumbai: Reconstructing gutted records, issuing share certificates, and conducting fresh elections within four weeks, as directed by the Bombay high court, will be a major challenge for the three-member administrative panel appointed to run Link Square Cooperative Society in Bandra, after a fire at the mall destroyed its office earlier this year.A senior cooperatives department…

MUMBAI: The Special NDPS Sessions Court sentenced a 55-year-old repeat offender to 15 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh in a narcotics case involving the seizure of more than 7,000 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup.The accused, Shakir Mohammad Hussain Retiwala, a cloth merchant residing in Kapadia Nagar, Kurla, was…

Mumbai: The state cabinet on Tuesday approved a policy allowing the cluster redevelopment of Mhada layouts across the city. This will be applicable to those spanning over 20 acres. Mhada will be the planning authority for all 114 layouts in the city.The policy has done away with the requirement for seeking consent from residents on…