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Pune: The Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) has initiated a statewide verification of 2,600 Occupancy Certificates (OCs) submitted by developers on its official portal. These certificates have been sent to respective planning authorities to ensure authenticity and prevent discrepancies or forgery, officials said on Saturday.The move follows the fallout of the Dombivli scam, where…

Mumbai: A 12-year-old boy playing at an open ground in Dahisar found a pistol in a pile of trash on Friday and fired a shot out of curiosity. Police said nobody was injured and they are probing how the pistol landed in the trash. The boy presumed the pistol to be a toy and aimed…

Mumbai: A key witness in the third phase of the 1993 Mumbai blasts case trial asked a special CBI court for increased security, citing severe threat to him and his family. He said he had previously deposed under heavy protection, including 32 guards and a bulletproof car, and his current single guard daytime security is…

Mumbai: The Navghar police in Mulund on Friday arrested two delivery boys who allegedly assaulted a traffic police constable and forcibly snatched an e-challan device during an incident of signal violation at Hariom Junction in Mulund East.According to police, the incident occurred around 12:42 pm on Thursday. Laxman Rathod, a traffic constable who was on…

Mumbai: A business district similar to the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) will be developed along the northern arm — Versova-Dahisar-Bhayandar-Virar — of the coastal road, said chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday.At a review meeting of the progress made on the project, Fadnavis directed govt lands adjoining the coastal road to be used to develop new…

Pune: Maharashtra is seeing a significant decline in daily Covid infections and active cases, with health experts suggesting that the recent surge appears to be waning.The health department’s data revealed an encouraging trend—new cases have fallen consistently over the past week. Maharashtra, which was recording an average of 80-100 new cases daily until recently, has…

MUMBAI: NCP President and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has said he will seek an explanation from Ahmednagar MLA Sangram Jagtap regarding his alleged hate speech and communal remarks against a community. Pawar made the statement after the party’s state Vice-President, Salim Sarang, lodged a complaint about Jagtap’s alleged remarks targeting a particular community.“After videos…

Govt Clears Move To Cut 3 Lakh Trees, Relocate 6 Palghar Villages, Flood 844 Hectares To Bring Water From Gargai River To CityThe river Gargai, a tributary of Vaitarna, comes cascading down the Western Ghats and flows through the Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary, a 320-sq-km sprawl of dense forest in Palghar district tagged as a biodiversity…

Mumbai: The treatment chamber’s walls had to be lead-shielded, the next few rooms vacated and several other strict safety measures put in place before two highly radioactive injections were given at a gap of just 15 seconds to a 17-year-old with stage 4 neuroblastoma at the Tata Memorial Centre’s ACTREC facility in Kharghar recently. It…

An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner, en route to Mumbai from Addis Ababa, executed an emergency landing early Friday morning due to cabin depressurization. MUMBAI: A Mumbai-bound Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa made an emergency landing in the city at 1.42am on Friday after the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft experienced a depressurisation problem. “On…