Mumbai: Traffic Police have tweaked vehicular restrictions in Worli as the closure of the Elphinstone bridge has been resulting in congestion at Shriram Mill naka. Police said that at Shriram Mill naka, where Dainik Shivner Marg and SS Amrutrao Marg meet, there is not enough space for motorists to turn right. So vehicles coming from…
Mumbai: What began as a modest catering request at a Powai tea stall turned into the first link in Thursday’s hostage crisis. Rohan Aher, who police said worked with Rohit Aarrya as a production assistant, approached the stall owner, Umesh Tiwari, asking if he could supply tea and food to the nearby RA studio “for…
Thane: Deputy CM Eknath Shinde and Shiv Sena chief leader stated that the party would bear the wedding expenses of children of farmers affected by the recent natural calamity. Shinde made the announcement after inaugurating a 51-foot-high idol of Lord Vitthal at Upvan Lake Friday night.“The Mahayuti govt is assisting the farmers in every possible…
Mumbai: A 26-year-old rickshaw driver, identified as Saib Ali Pathan, was killed in a hit-and-run incident near Baiganwadi Signal in Govandi early Thursday morning.According to the complaint lodged by his sister Afsana Gulsar Ali Syed, the accident occurred around 1.53 am when Saib Ali and his friend Suraj Kale were crossing the road near Aksa…
Mumbai: It’s been an unusually wet October for Mumbai, with the Colaba observatory recording 165 mm of rainfall — 91.2 mm above normal, the highest October rainfall in three years. The unseasonal showers, which lingered through the festive week, have cooled the city but dampened the Diwali spirit, and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) says…
Mumbai: For quality and prompt customer service, MSEDCL has started giving automatic approval to online applications for a change of name on electricity bills. After uploading necessary documents and paying the processing fee, the process of changing the customer name on electricity bills will be completed in just 3 to 7 days. Earlier, this process…
Rohit Aarrya (in picture) was shot dead by police on Thursday after allegedly holding 17 children and two adults hostage inside R A Studio in Powai. MUMBAI: A day after the dramatic hostage crisis in Mumbai’s Powai area ended with the death of Rohit Aarrya, Maharashtra school education minister Dada Bhuse said on Friday that…
Mumbai: An anonymous Parsi donor from overseas has stemmed the controversial sale of a 2.5 acre sanatorium property in Sanjan meant for the Parsi-Irani community.On Friday, World Zoroastrian Organisation Trust Funds (WZOTF), which owned the Bai Maneckbai P.B. Jeejeebhoy Sanatorium in Sanjan, about 150-km from Mumbai, said it will now not sell the property. The…
Leading Marathi actress Ruchita Jadhav said she was contacted by Rohit Aarrya MUMBAI: Leading Marathi actor Ruchita Jadhav said she was contacted by Rohit Aarrya, the man who took 17 children, a 75-year-old grandmother, and a studio staffer hostage inside a Powai recording studio on Thursday.In an Instagram post, she said she had been contacted…
MUMBAI: Observing that he was the actual assailant who smothered Thane businessman Mansukh Hiran to death, a special NIA court this week rejected the bail plea of Satish Mothkuri, four years after he was arrested in the Antilia bomb scare case and the murder. “… considering the gravity of the offences and the role played…
