Navi Mumbai: Cyber fraudsters targeting PNG consumers of Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) by sending messages that the gas connection will be disconnected for non-payment of the bill are using a new modus operandi. They send a link to an APK file to check the outstanding bill, and when the consumer opens the APK file link,…
Navi Mumbai: A joint initiative was undertaken by a mountaineering team, Yashwanti Hikers and the Khopoli Municipal Council (KMC) to clean up the plastics dumped on Borghat along the Mumbai Pune expressway and highway sections. This marked the fourth in a series of such drives being taken up to upkeep the hilly terrain. The newly…
Mumbai: Dahisar police have registered an FIR against unidentified fraudsters who allegedly used an 18-year-old class X student’s Aadhaar and PAN card copies to open a mule account.The boy told police that one of his classmates and the latter’s friend convinced him to invest in a trading scheme. He gave them copies of his PAN…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday granted bail to two accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case on grounds of parity with other co-accused. Only accused Surendra Gadling remains to get bail.Justice Ajey Gadkari and Shyam Chandak allowed the appeals of Sagar Gorkhe and Ramesh Gaichor, members of cultural group Kabir Kala Manch, against…
Mumbai: The BMC’s licensing department has filed cases against unknown individuals at Gamdevi, Malabar Hill and D B Marg police stations in south Mumbai for illegally putting up banners on electric poles along the roadside. Civic staffers also removed a total of 41 banners on Jan 21 and 22. According to the civic administration, designated…
Mumbai: Govt has extended for the second time the term of the committee constituted to decide the three-language formula in schools.The panel was set up in June 2025 after govt faced sharp criticism from educationists and civil society for attempting to make Hindi compulsory from Class 1 that April—a move that was later withdrawn. It…
Mumbai: Days after a special NDPS court rejected a plea by the Mumbai Police Crime Branch to retest drug samples in a major narcotics case after the initial forensic report returned negative for contraband, four accused arrested in the case were granted temporary bail. The accused, Rajesh Pawar, Yogesh Singh, Rohan Avsare and Pradeep Upadhyay…
Navi Mumbai: With the Navi Mumbai mayor’s post reserved for a woman after 15 years, former civic standing committee chairperson Netra Shirke emerged as the frontrunner. Rekha Mhatre, a close relative of local heavyweight Ganesh Naik, is another claimant. Other contenders include Shubhangi Patil (Turbhe), Madhuri Sutar (Nerul) and Aditi Naik (Koparkhairane), as well as…
Mumbai, on Friday, January 23, 2026, is experiencing a day marked by sunny and warm conditions, typical of late January, alongside persistent concerns regarding air quality. While temperatures remain comfortable, the air quality continues to be affected by Thursday’s “poor” pollution levels, which registered an AQI-IN of 253.Residents are advised to dress lightly and stay…
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government and US-based Supervity AI signed an MoU at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos to set up the world’s first AI (Global Capability Center) GCC hub in Mumbai. The AI GCC Hub will be set up in Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), anchored as a next-generation applied agentic AI research and…
