Mumbai: The Bandra Police arrested builder Neeraj Kakad along with his assitant Vikas Kadam for allegedly cheating a Khar-based contractor of Rs 9.57 crore and threatening him with violence. They will be produced before the Bandra court. Police picked up Neeraj from his Bandra residence while his wife, son and his officials Ujjal Singh and…
MUMBAI: “The Folk Aakhyaan,” India’s largest-ever Marathi folk art celebration, to be showcased in a magnificent format aims to celebrate and revive the glory of Maharashtra’s folk traditions, its rich cultural heritage, and timeless artistic excellence, reaching the hearts of the new generation.It is being presented at Jio World Garden, BKC Bandra, on Sunday (November…
Mumbai: The BEST announced on Friday new AC bus routes starting from November 1, including a new AC bus route, A-101, which is being introduced for office-goers from CSMT to Cuffe Parade. At the same time, it announced that it will curtail a few and extend some of the 23 bus routes across the city….
A 75-year-old actress, Mangal Patankar, recounts her terrifying ordeal at a Mumbai studio. What began as a web series audition for a kidnapping scene turned into a real-life hostage situation orchestrated by the director, Rohit Aarrya. He threatened to harm children and demanded ransom from parents before police intervened. MUMBAI: When Mangal Patankar left Kolhapur…
MUMBAI: Children were found with their mouths taped and some with their hands tied at the time of rescue from the Powai recording studio on Thursday, a senior police officer said. They were also denied food for hours since Aarrya kept moving them from room to room. “While negotiating over the phone, we could hear…
Mumbai: When assistant police inspector Amol Waghmare was informed by Powai senior inspector Jitendra Sonawane Thursday afternoon that a hostage crisis was brewing in a Powai studio, he had no idea that minutes later he would be confronting an armed kidnapper and would have to pull the trigger at him.Waghmare, who is the complainant in…
Mumbai: The hostage crisis’ ‘script’ was apparently readied over a month. The 17 children had their hands tied and mouths taped at the Powai recording studio on Thursday, but everyone went along with it for hours believing that a “hostage scene” for a web series was being shot. Panic set in only after the captor,…
Mumbai: Fatalities and injuries in BEST bus accidents have surged sharply this year, with a 43% rise in deaths and a 53% increase in injuries recorded in 2024–25 compared to the previous year, according to fresh data released by the BEST on Friday. The statistics also reveal that most of these crashes involved wet lease…
Mumbai: Launched as a private initiative in 2022, the Swachhta Monitor programme selected schoolchildren across Maharashtra as “cleanliness monitors”, tasked with calling out acts of uncleanliness in their surroundings. The initiative, led by Apsara Media Entertainment and Rohit Aaryya, who orchestrated the Powai hostage crisis, received official sanction when the company was paid Rs 9.9…
Thane: A man allegedly murdered his maternal uncle following a heated argument over a family dispute late Thursday night in Kalyan.According to police officials, the accused identified as Ganesh Pujari, attacked and killed his maternal uncle Mariyappa Nair during an altercation that broke out outside a private hospital in Mohane, where Pujari’s wife had been…
