Mumbai: Circular Train Operations (CTO), a bold proposal to run long-distance trains in a circular loop without entering choked railway termini in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, and Danapur in Bihar to ease pressure on them, has been gathering dust since a year.Conceived by former Mumbai divisional railway manager Rajnish Kumar…
Vasai: Two constables from the Mira Bhayandar Vasai Virar commissionerate were arrested by Achole police in Nalasopara early Wednesday morning on charges of abetment of suicide and criminal intimidation. Following their court appearance in Vasai on Wednesday afternoon, they were remanded to police custody for five days. The arrests stemmed from allegations of pressuring a…
Mumbai: The Dharavi Redevelopment Project and the Slum Rehabilitation Authority have been formally appointed as the special planning authority for the 8.5 hectares (21.25 acres) Kurla dairy land. Both agencies are part of the Special Purpose Vehicle, Navbharat Mega Developer Pvt Ltd, set up to execute the Dharavi Redevelopment Project. The physical possession of the…
MUMBAI: He gave his life rescuing a minor girl of another faith from a drain, but now his own family is in dire straits, awaiting urgent monetary help. Over a month after Shahzad Shaikh, 28, a daily wage worker, rescued Sonali Banjara, 8, who fell in a drain at Ramabai Colony area in Ghatkopar East…
MUMBAI: A 22-year-old Mumbai man studying in Germany, who died by suicide at Goregaon East on Monday, was disallowed from boarding a flight to Germany as he couldn’t produce a hard copy of his residence permit, police said. Later the same day, he took an auto to a highrise at Goregaon East and jumped to…
MUMBAI: A 14-year-old boy jumped to his death from a Kandivali highrise on Wednesday reportedly angry after being asked by his mother to go for tuitions. Kandivali police said the family lives on the 51st floor of the highrise but it’s not clear where he jumped from. An accidental death case has been recorded.The boy…
MUMBAI: A day after BJP legislator Ameet Satam made a provocative statement suggesting that a Khan might become the Mayor of Mumbai, Samajwadi Party (SP) legislator Rais Shaikh stated that Mumbai belongs to people of all castes and religions. He emphasized that Parsis, Bohris, Memons, Patels, Agris, Kolis, and Muslims have all previously served as…
MUMBAI: A 44-year-old food aggregator delivery man drowned after falling into a swimming pool on the 22nd floor of a residential tower in south Mumbai late Tuesday. The incident happened when Imran Akbar Khozada, a Pydhonie resident, went to deliver food in Darsshan Vonalzo, Grant Road, around 11.50pm Tuesday. “Soon after he stepped out of…
Mumbai: Bombay high court said there must be permanent dumping sites without human habitation around them so that it does not affect the rights of citizens to a pollution-free environment. “There cannot be an ad hoc-ism on such issues and more particularly concerning the prejudice being caused to lakhs of brother and sister citizens, who…
Mumbai/Navi Mumbai: While the strike call from a section of transporters on Wednesday turned out to be a ‘damp squib’ in Mumbai region, additional chief secretary (home) Iqbal Singh Chahal announced that he has directed the police to stop imposing e-challans from mobile phones on school buses when they pick and drop students or when…
