Mumbai: In a move aimed at ensuring uninterrupted onboard catering services, the Railway Board permitted the use of flameless cooking systems in pantry cars, allowing staff to prepare meals inside trains during the ongoing LPG supply constraints.In a letter dated March 12, addressed to the principal chief commercial managers of all railway zones and the…
Mumbai: Bangladeshi national Mardy Liton, 38, who changed his name to Liton Das to obtain an Indian passport fraudulently, was stopped at Mumbai International Airport on March 11 at 8 am before he could board flight AI-2354 to Bangkok, Thailand, to meet his girlfriend, a Bangladeshi national working there.Sahar police said Liton was caught by…
Mumbai: In a move aimed at strengthening elevator safety and speeding up regulatory clearances, the state Legislative Council on Thursday passed an amendment to the Maharashtra Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks Act, 2017, empowering electrical inspectors at district or inspection division level to carry out inspections of lifts, escalators and moving walks before licences are…
MUMBAI: The city could face a shortage of pav and bread within three to four days, according to bakers. They say their situation may be “worse” than that of eating joints, as many major producers switched to gas-based ovens around six months ago and now depend heavily on fuel supplies. Of the roughly 800 bakeries…
Speeding bike rams another on Eastern express highway, 2 dead (Representative image MUMBAI: Two youths were killed and another injured after a speeding motorcycle rammed into another bike on the Eastern Express Highway near Vikhroli on Tuesday afternoon.According to the complaint filed by electrical engineer Sachin Shankar Wadi, a resident of Jogeshwari East, the accident…
MUMBAI: In a joint initiative, members of residents groups Gulmohar Area Societies Welfare Group, Santacruz West Action Team (SWAT), Pali Hill Residents Association (PHRA), and the citizen collective Keep Juhu Clean met mayor Ritu Tawde on Wednesday to raise concerns over pollution and noise from construction sites across the western suburbs.Representing nearly 2,000 residents from…
MUMBAI: The BMC, which had invited bids for the desilting of the Mithi river ahead of the monsoon, received no response from contractors till its March 11 deadline, forcing the civic administration to extend the tender deadline to March 17.The proposed desilting work is planned in three phases, covering the stretch from Filter Pada to…
Threat email warns of bomb, missile attack on NSE office in Mumbai’s Kurla (Representative image) MUMBAI: The National Stock Exchange (NSC) office in Kurla has received threatening email warning of missile and bomb attack on key locations in the city.The email, allegedly sent from wassanalovemax2560@gmail.com, contained a message claiming that “Mumbai will echo Khalistan”. It…
Mumbai: A key accused part of the international call centre racket, who lured Indian youths with fake overseas job offers and forced them into cyber fraud operations in Myanmar, was arrested after he landed at Pune international airport.The Nodal Cyber Police of Maharashtra have arrested Om Praveen Jadhav, a resident of Satara, in an alleged…
The bomb detection and dog squads carried out a search on premises MUMBAI: All staffers at Vidhan Bhavan were evacuated from the premises on Thursday morning and a search operation was carried out after the state legislature got a “bomb and missile” threat on email. The mail came at 6.57 am, when most legislators had…
