Mumbai: Responding to the criticism that BMC had woken up late to issue a warning to construction sites who failed to install AQI monitors, the BMC has claimed that the civic body has activated ward level squads to keep a check on whether the construction sites are adhering to the 28 point guidelines. Besides, civic…
Navi Mumbai: A major fire broke out at a third floor 3BHK apartment in a 13-storey Shree Ravechi Heights in sector 7, Kharghar in the vicinity of Kharghar police station on Wednesday afternoon. Fortunately, no casualty has been reported as the family residing at the apartment was not home and the Kharghar and Kalamboli fire…
Mumbai: The state election commission (SEC) has urged EC to allow additions and deletions to the July 1 voter list being used for the local body polls in the state up to Oct 15. In a letter, it asked that the additional names be included as a supplementary voter list while maintaining the cutoff date…
Mumbai: While industrialist Anil Ambani has been chargesheeted by CBI in the Yes Bank loan fraud case, his son, Jai Anmol Ambani, has come under the lens.According to its chargesheet filed recently, CBI said as part of its future investigations, it was probing the role of Jai, then executive director of Reliance Capital Ltd (RCL)…
Navi Mumbai: Taloja police have registered a dowry death case involving a 21-year-old woman who died by suicide at her in-laws’ residence on the fourth floor in Trimbak Sankul, Navade village, Taloja node on Tuesday morning. Within 12 hours, her husband and parents-in-law were arrested after the victim’s father lodged a complaint against her in-laws….
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court recently stated that it is only the wife who has the choice of selecting the forum to file domestic violence proceedings. The court imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on a husband, to be paid to his estranged wife, while rejecting his plea to transfer a domestic violence case…
Mumbai: The Centre Tuesday repatriated IAS officer Rajesh Aggarwal back to Maharashtra at the request of the state govt. With this, Aggarwal, an IAS officer of the 1989 batch, becomes the senior-most bureaucrat in the state and a frontrunner to become Maharashtra chief secretary (CS) after the extended tenure of the current CS, Rajesh Kumar…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) said it would begin protests at Azad Maidan next week and shut down all non-emergency services starting Monday until an independent Special Investigation Team (SIT), led by a retired high court judge and a senior woman IPS officer, is appointed to probe the suicide of a Phaltan-based…
Thane: A 35-year-old resident of Airoli was arrested for allegedly molesting a 29-year-old woman from Kalwa at Thane railway station on Tuesday night.The incident occurred around 7.30 pm when the woman, who works at a company in Navi Mumbai, alighted at Thane from a Trans-harbour local and was descending the middle foot overbridge at the…
Mumbai: The state’s higher and technical education department has set a mid-Nov deadline to review faculty appointment applications — the first major recruitment drive after Maharashtra lifted its hiring freeze on public universities. A total of 659 vacancies were advertised under a new merit-based framework introduced by outgoing Chancellor C P Radhakrishnan, who insisted on…
