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MUMBAI: Central Railway on Tuesday set up a five-member committee of senior officials to investigate the sequence of events leading to the Mumbra tragedy. The probe panel includes the senior divisional security commissioner, senior divisional mechanical engineer, senior divisional electrical engineer, senior divisional engineer, and the senior divisional operations manager. CR’s chief public relations officer…

Thane: A day after the Mumbra tragedy and after railways said they would introduce more AC and non-AC locals with closed doors, a number of angry passengers forcibly entered an AC local at 9.03 am at Dombivli railway station following the cancellation of their regular 8.59 am train. Overcrowding of the AC train resulted in…

Mumbai: Seven years after Central Railway (CR) proposed a Rs 900-crore plan to convert all 12-car rakes to 15-car ones on its fast corridor, the project remains largely unimplemented—even as overcrowding and fatal accidents persist on the Thane–Kalyan–Karjat/Kasara stretch.The push for longer trains gained urgency in 2015 when the Railway Board directed both CR and…

Mumbai: Nearly a decade after a fire at Hotel City Kinara, Kurla West, claimed 8 lives, Bombay HC Tuesday ordered BMC to pay 50 lakh each compensation to their families, nailing it for gross negligence in discharge of its duties.Justices Burgess Colabawalla and Firdosh Pooniwalla said Kinara was granted an eating housing license without it…

Mumbai: Construction of 10,000 rehab flats in up to 30-storey buildings is being undertaken under phase 1 of Dharavi redevelopment project (DRP) on railway land in Mahim and will be ready in the next three years, said project CEO SVR Srinivas.The 47.5-acre railway land is part of Dharavi notified area. DRP has physical possession of…

Mumbai: There has been another Covid-19-linked death in the state—of a 45-year-old Panvel resident who was immunocompromised with heart disease—taking the tally to 19 since May. The city on Tuesday reported 32 new cases, all with mild infections. Intermittent rainfall over the past week has also led to a seasonal uptick in monsoon-related illnesses in…

Mumbai: Refusing to show leniency to a 73-year-old wheelchair-bound woman suffering from cancer, a Mumbai sessions court has convicted and sentenced her to 7 years in jail for the 2014 suicide of her daughter-in-law following cruelty and harassment for dowry.Two sons of the woman, Ashiyakhatun Khan, including the 28-year-old victim’s husband, were sentenced to 10…

MUMBAI: More than 24 hours after the Monday morning rush hour Mumbra tragedy in which four commuters died and nine others were injured — some after falling off two passing local trains and others while inside the compartment — Central Railway (CR) is still to conclusively determine what led to the unprecedented accident on the…

Mumbai: The state govt Tuesday directed commissioners of 29 municipal corporations, including Mumbai, Thane and Pune, to immediately initiate the process of drafting ward boundaries of local bodies where polls are overdue. Corporations will also have to invite suggestions and objections from citizens on the new boundaries, reports ChaitanyaMarpakwar.A govt order stated that as per…

Pune: NCP chief Ajit Pawar on Tuesday justified his and colleagues’ decision to rebel against uncle Sharad Pawar to join BJP-led NDA and said that he was not a saint to remain in the opposition and keep raising slogans against govt.Addressing a rally on the occasion of NCP’s foundation day conclave in Balewadi, Pawar exhorted…