Mumbai/Navi Mumbai: Despite the onset of winter which brings cheaper produce, prices of common vegetables have risen sharply this past week. Traders cite a shortage in arrivals due to extended rains that spilled over through Diwali season.Green leafy vegetables such as spinach and coriander, apart from tomato, lead the charge. A small bunch of spinach…
Mumbai: Supreme Court on Thursday said narcotic drug offences involving commercial quantities stand on a distinct footing, obligating an analysis of the case to rule out guilt. Mere delay of trial or prolonged incarceration by itself cannot justify the grant of bail, it said. SC set aside two orders of Bombay high court passed in…
Motorists using the Ghodbunder Highway complain of facing an arduous task crossing the Gaimukh stretch to Kapurbawdi due to the ongoing highway lane widening work. Several stretches along the highway, including those opposite Suraj Water Park, Kasarwadavli, and Anand Nagar, among others, have seen traffic lanes narrowing. This leaves barely enough space for heavy vehicles…
Mumbai: The state govt’s High Powered Committee has approved the bid for Kamathipura Redevelopment Project. Mhada, which is the nodal agency for the project, invited bids for the redevelopment of Kamathipura under the Construction and Development Agency format.According to a survey carried out by Mhada, there are 800 old and dilapidated buildings in Kamathipura spread…
Mumbai: A total of 510 BEST employees living with diabetes never saw TB as a danger quietly lurking in the background. However, an intervention that began three years ago, regularly screening diabetic employees for latent TB, has changed that.Latent TB is an asymptomatic form of TB that can progress to active disease if untreated. So…
Mumbai: Police’s anti-narcotics cell is likely to record the statements of Bollywood celebrities, a rapper, a socialite and a slain politician’s son after deported alleged drug smuggler Sohail Shaikh alias Lavish claimed he gave them drugs and attended raves with them in India and abroad. “We have to verify his claim. We need to corroborate…
Thane: A local court acquitted a 46-year-old man accused of illegally erecting birthday congratulatory banners for political workers without municipal permission, citing multiple lapses in the police investigation.Sanjay Chandrakant Salunkhe was acquitted by the 7th First Class Judicial Magistrate after the prosecution failed to prove the charges against him beyond reasonable doubt.The case dates back…
Ulhasnagar: Shock overshadowed celebrations in BJP’s Ulhasnagar unit over the party’s stunning victory in the Bihar assembly elections after six of its former corporators, including three who were regarded as its strongest faces in the city, quit and joined Shiv Sena and its local ally, Team Omie Kalani (TOK), on Friday.The defections ahead of civic…
Mumbai: A 63-year-old taxi driver died after his taxi plunged into the sea at Bhaucha Dhakka (Ferry Wharf) in South Mumbai on Thursday night.The deceased driver, Jaiprakash Sharma, a Mumbadevi resident, drove his taxi into an area where construction work for a new jetty is ongoing, said a police officer. “He drove the taxi towards…
Mumbai: Observing that such offences against the vulnerable deserve no leniency, a special POCSO court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a a 24-year-old man 10 years rigorous imprisonment for sodomising a 17-year-old boy with moderate intellectual disability in 2022. The accused was the minor’s neighbour. “The boy was vulnerable to the sexual abuse by reason…
