Mumbai: Seven months after Breach Candy resident Nigum Lakhani, who lives opposite the Mumbai Coastal road interchange in the area, wrote to the Prime Minister’s Office with his concern that their demand for another exit from Nepean Sea Road was only being pushed from one table to another, he has finally received a detailed reply…
Navi Mumbai: A leopard killed a cow in Poladpur, Raigad recently, that have left the locals scared. The forest department has warned the locals to remain cautious.The incident was reported in the remote hilly area of Mahalagur Morewadi. The cow owner Ashok More had noticed leopard tooth wounds on the neck and deep claw scratches…
Navi Mumbai: Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) ranked first in Maharashtra in the City E-Governance Index (CEGI)-2026 report released by Policy Research Organization (PRO) Pune, a third-party organisation that evaluated the e-governance performance of 29 municipal corporations in the state. The report assessed hundreds of criteria under three key pillars: service availability, transparency in administration…
Mumbai: Seven months after Mumbai police registered an FIR in a land-grab case in Kandivli, the property cell of the city crime branch last week filed a chargesheet against five accused. TOI was the first to report on the case last August. Of the 17 acres, 10 acres were reserved for public purposes and had…
Grammy winner Ricky Kej joined French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron in Mumbai for the India-France Year of Innovation 2026. Kej, who travelled with the President on the presidential aircraft, shared insights on cultural exchange and soft power. The delegation also met with Bollywood personalities to discuss industry collaborations, highlighting a growing…
Mumbai: Forty years after India’s first officially documented test-tube baby was born in KEM Hospital, the civic hospital will inaugurate a state-of-the-art in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) centre on Monday. The centre, called MAA, is a public-private partnership between the hospital and its former students, Dr Anjali and Aniruddha Malpani, and will be inaugurated by state health…
Mumbai: Actor Ranveer Singh received multiple threat calls from Harry Boxer, a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, making an extortion demand for Rs 20 crore, the FIR registered by the police on Tuesday stated.An officer said they registered the offence after getting confirmation from the Punjab and Haryana police that the voice belonged to…
Mumbai: Ahead of the civic budget, the Congress group in the BMC has written to the municipal commissioner pointing out expectations of citizens. On environment and air quality, it expects the civic body to provide enforcement protocols and measurable reduction targets. Regarding health, the party wants the BMC to establish medicine procurement tracking, stock accountability…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Friday, in an interim order, said prima facie there appeared to be a “failure of intelligence” by the Navy in noticing how a high rise came up in the vicinity of INS Shikra, the premier naval air station in south Mumbai. The HC did not immediately stay construction work on…
Mumbai: Following a summons, Raj Kundra, husband of actor Shilpa Shetty, appeared before a special court handling money laundering cases and was granted bail in a 2018 crime concerning Bitcoins worth over Rs 150 crore.The special trial court judge R B Rote on Jan 5, after hearing special public prosecutor Kavita Patil, took cognisance of…
