Mumbai: Brace for traffic chaos in south Mumbai in the coming festive season. When BMC resumes its ambitious road concretisation project next month with the monsoon’s departure, 776 new roads will be built across the city, nearly half of which will fall in the area, indicates the civic body’s newly launched dashboard to track the…
Nagpur: A court here on Wednesday dismissed a civil suit filed against IPS officer Rashmi Shukla by Congress MLA Nana Patole over an FIR, noting imputations made in the report are not the publication of a defamatory statement. The court also held since the FIR had already been quashed by Bombay high court, there was…
Mumbai: BMC has given in-principle nod to demolish the seven-year-old Veer Savarkar flyover in Goregaon to make way for a double-decker bridge connecting Mumbai Coastal Road (North)’s Malad-Mindspace stretch to Dindoshi, additional municipal commissioner Abhijit Bangar confirmed on Wednesday. The new elevated bridge is part of the Coastal Road 2 project, which will connect Versova…
Mumbai: After a series of social and courtesy meetings between them, Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray and MNS chief Raj Thackeray met for a marathon meeting on Wednesday. Uddhav visited Raj’s home at Shivaji Park with party MP Sanjay Raut. The discussions lasted for close to two and a half hours. Shiv Sena (UBT)…
Mumbai: A 36-year-old man, husband of a police officer, died after the car he was travelling in rammed into a trailer truck on the Atal Setu bridge on Monday. The Sewri police have arrested the trailer driver under the BNS sections of rash and negligent driving and causing death due to negligence.The deceased was identified…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra govt’s cabinet sub-committee on Maratha reservation on Tuesday directed the authorities to submit a report on the Satara gazette, as demanded by Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange for the implementation of Kunbi (OBC) benefits to the community.Meanwhile, water resources minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, who heads the state cabinet sub-committee on Maratha quota,…
Mumbai: Bombay HC on Tuesday rejected Sena (UBT) functionary Rajan Vichare’s election petition challenging the victory of Naresh Mhaske, Sena’s candidate, from Thane in the 2024 LS polls. The plea failed to disclose a cause of action and suffered from an “incurable defect”, held Justice Riyaz Chagla.Vichare, who had also contested from the constituency, claimed…
Bombay high court granted bail to Farooq Shaukat Bagwan, arrested in connection with the 2012 Pune blasts MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Farooq Shaukat Bagwan, an accused arrested in the 2012 Pune blasts case. The bail comes after his December 2012 arrest. The HC directed his release on a bail…
Raj Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray (ANI photo) MUMBAI: After a series of social and courtesy meetings, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and MNS president Raj Thackeray held a marathon political meeting on Wednesday. Uddhav visited Raj’s residence at Shivtirth in Dadar’s Shivaji Park, accompanied by party MP Sanjay Raut and MLC Anil Parab. MNS…
Mumbai: The Commissioner of Metro Railway Safety (CMRS) will on Wednesday commence the final inspections on Mumbai Metro Line 2B’s first phase, which comprises a 5.39km stretch from Mandale to Diamond Garden in the eastern suburbs. MMRDA officials said this will be the final inspection for the stretch to be declared safe for passenger commute….
