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Mumbai: A citizen group has complained that multiple healthy trees along the Western Express Highway, from Vile Parle (East) to Andheri (East), have been indiscriminately trimmed and reduced to sticks to improve the visibility of large commercial hoardings. BMC garden department officials differed with the group, the Watchdog Foundation, and said that the branches of…

Mumbai: Eknath Shinde was on Monday re-elected the Shiv Sena‘s chief leader at the party’s national executive meeting. There was a demand from party functionaries that Shinde be elected as the Sena’s party chief, a post that Uddhav Thackeray held in the united Shiv Sena and currently holds in the Shiv Sena (UBT). At Monday’s…

Mumbai: As June drew to a close, rainfall readings from the city’s two main weather observatories painted a contrasting picture. While the Colaba observatory of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) recorded 592 mm of rain — exceeding its monthly average of 542.3 mm — Santacruz fell slightly short, logging 512.7 mm against an average of…

Mumbai: Even as the Maharashtra cabinet announced the scrapping of both govt resolutions (GRs), released in April and June, regarding the three-language formula, educationists and linguists remain wary of the state’s back-and-forth on the issue and have urged it to include them in future consultations and deliberations.Laxmikanth Deshmukh, chairman of the Marathi Language Advisory Committee,…

Mumbai: Between June 1 and 20, Central Railway (CR) recorded 666 instances of alarm chain pulling across its network — 251 of which occurred in the Mumbai division alone. As a result, 463 passengers were prosecuted, and a total fine of Rs 1.7 lakh was collected, according to CR’s chief spokesperson Swapnil Nila.Each incident caused…

Thane: Police have arrested a 30-year-old fruit seller for illegally possessing two country-made pistols and a live cartridge, valued at Rs 1.05 lakh. Acting on a tip-off, the police’s anti-extortion cell raided the man’s premises in Kalyan who already had two previous criminal cases against him, including one under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances…

Image created using AI: TOI/TIL Denny MUMBAI: The city crime branch police on Sunday arrested a fake IAS officer and recovered several fake government documents from him. Police arrested Chandramohan Singh (32) from Malad. He claimed to be an IAS officer and reportedly stayed in Mumbai posing as an officer of the ministry of home…

Mumbai: Maharashtra recorded six Covid-19 cases on Sunday.Of the new cases, four are from Mumbai and two from the limits of the Pune Municipal Corporation, an official statement said. The state’s tally of the viral infections so far in this calendar year is now 2,488, the health department said. No death has been reported due…

Palghar: Authorities in Palghar district have launched a probe and issued notices to an elderly couple’s two sons and their wives after the senior citizens complained of assault and harassment at home, an official said on Sunday.According to Shekar Ghatge, sub-divisional officer of Vasai, the four accused have been summoned for an inquiry on Monday….

MUMBAI: Two bodies were Sunday found a distance apart in the deserted mangroves section at Arnala beach by locals who alerted the police, reports Vishal Rajemahadik. They were identified as Shivaji Shinde, 51, and his wife Ranjita, 48, from Virar east. After a post-mortem examination, their bodies were handed to the family who had come…