Thane: Three persons died on the spot when a speeding container truck rammed into their scooter from behind on Mumbra Bypass Road near Gavdevi Temple on Monday afternoon.The police said the accident occurred around 3pm when the three were riding on a scooter which was hit by a container truck headed towards Shilphata. “We are…
Palghar: Police have rescued three women forced into prostitution from a hotel and arrested the 39-year-old manager in Palghar district, officials said on Sunday. Local crime branch police and immoral human trafficking prevention cell conducted a raid at the hotel in Boisar area on Sept 18. The manager was booked under BNS and Immoral Traffic…
Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (File Photo) By- BB NayakNAVI MUMBAI: Political posters are increasingly cluttering the city’s landscape, undermining the cleanliness initiatives of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) ahead of the upcoming civic polls. Despite court orders prohibiting defacement of public spaces, authorities failed to enforce these regulations against violators. After the Ganeshotsav, the…
NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday has asked the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the Mumbai Police to submit an Action Taken Report regarding a complaint against Netflix’s web series Ba***ds of Bollywood. The complaint concerns a scene in which actor Ranbir Kapoor is shown using a banned e-cigarette without…
MUMBAI: CBI has unearthed a sophisticated online fraud operation orchestrated by two brothers from Kalyan, who established a BPO centre in Nashik, impersonated a UK company and sold forged insurance policies for TV sets to UK nationals. When some of the victims sought help to repair their products, the brothers, Ganesh and Shyam Kamankar, arranged…
Usain Bolt, the eight-time Olympic gold medalist, world record holder, and global sporting icon will trade his running spikes for football boots in a one-of-a-kind spectacle in Mumbai on October 1 NEW DELHI: Usain Bolt, eight-time Olympic gold medalist, world record holder, and global sporting icon, will trade his running spikes for football boots in…
Mumbai: The suspended deputy dean of Sion Hospital, Dr Rakesh Verma, along with three others, was booked on Friday for cheating after siphoning Rs 70 lakh from a medical practitioner by promising an MBBS seat for his daughter. The Sion police stated that this is the sixth cheating case registered against Dr Verma.According to police,…
Thane: An 83-year-old woman died after being hit by a bus in Thane, police said on Sunday.Police have registered a case against the unidentified bus driver in connection with the accident that occurred at a bus stop near a bridge on Sept 18, an official said.Asha Ashok Manjrekar, a resident of Vitawa, was standing near…
Speeding Lamborghini car crashes into Coastal Road divider in Mumbai NEW DELHI: A speeding Lamborghini rammed into a divider on Mumbai’s Coastal Road on Sunday morning, officials said, leaving the driver unhurt. The 52-year-old driver, Atish Shah of Nepean Sea Road, was reportedly heading towards Colaba in south Mumbai when he lost control of the…
‘Daksha’ is a collaborative effort led by IIT Bombay along with support from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research MUMBAI: Professor Varun Bhalerao, a rocket scientist in the physics department at IIT Bombay, is determined to change something fundamental about Indian science. “The age of catching up is over, where we struggled to match the…
