Thane: Additional Sessions Court in Thane acquitted a 45-year-old man of rape charges under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, citing insufficient evidence and inconsistencies in the prosecution’s case.According to the prosecutor, the case originated from a complaint filed on July 13, 2012, at Kashimira Police Station. The complainant, an adult woman in her…
Mumbai: BMC on Saturday said that it successfully replanted 438 trees at the Bhandup water treatment complex, achieving a 100% survival rate using the scientific ‘root ball’ technique.The replantation is part of the construction of a new 2,000 MLD (million litres per day) water treatment plant at Bhandup, which impacted around 1,235 trees. Of the…
Mumbai: The biggest foreign hurdle in India’s first bullet train project has finally been cleared, with a giant Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) which was stranded at a Chinese port now expected to arrive in Mumbai on Sep 24.After factory testing and assembling, tunnelling work for the underground stretch will begin in Jan 2027, officials confirmed.The…
Mumbai: A 52-year-old man working as a temple priest died by suicide at Kandivli West a day after a college-going girl accused him of alleged harassment. Kandivli Police have recorded an accidental death in connection with the suicide and are probing further.According to the police, the deceased hailed from Madhya Pradesh and worked as a…
Mumbai: An autorickshaw driver died in a fatal crash after he lost control of the vehicle, causing it to flip three to four times, at Andheri East recently. An eyewitness narrated the sequence of events to the MIDC Police who registered a case against the deceased driver.On Sept 18, MIDC Police were informed of a…
To open doors for his eight students, Prafull Ambatkar locks the doors of his school. As the lone teacher at Bhavani Bal Primary School —a bare pink room with a TV in Junona village, the 54-year-old must be vigilant. “It’s a buffer zone,” he says, referring to the no-network hamlet in the Moharli core zone…
Mumbai: Three Ghatkopar residents arrested in a drunk driving accident in which a pavement-dweller was killed were sent to judicial custody after completing five days in police custody on Thursday. Bhavika Dama (30), Koram Bhanusali (30) and Aniket Bhansode (29) were denied bail when they appeared in court. They are facing charges of culpable homicide…
Mumbai: Transport minister Pratap Sarnaik on Friday pointed out certain flaws in the current online learner’s licence system and directed officials to write to the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to implement technical security measures and rectify the flaws immediately. He suggested that the online system should be suspended while RTOs conduct the learner’s tests offline…
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Hitesh Singla, an official of the Bank of India’s Turner Road branch in Bandra, after a dramatic search on a train at Ahmedabad Junction.Singla had fraudulently closed Term Deposits (TDs), Public Provident Funds (PPFs), Senior Citizen Savings Scheme (SCSS) accounts, Savings Bank (SB) accounts, and Current Accounts (CAs) of…
Mumbai: Miffed that most govt schools have not complied with the govt resolution (GR) on safety and security of children, Bombay HC on Friday directed the state to create a website in one week with a checklist of all schools that have complied with it. “The website should be created within one week exclusively for…
