It’s just past 9 am in a makeshift “cooling pit” in a cacti-lined part of Karjat. Like an F1 pit crew, huddles of rustic men sporting stethoscopes over neon reflector jackets hover around blue drums of water and cola bottles filled with brown jaggery solution. Some hold hay, one a carries a carrot in hand….
Mumbai: A special court this week granted permission to Professor Hany Babu, an accused in the Elgar Parishad case, to travel to his hometown in Kerala to visit his 80-year-old ailing mother and seek medical treatment for gallbladder stones. While the academic sought a two-month leave from the court’s jurisdiction, the court restricted the period…
From seasoned players to young revivalists, artists at this year’s blues fest explain why the genre remains restless, relevant and rooted in lived experience‘Blues crossing into the cinematic world, is a whole other level’: Eric GalesEric Gales landed in Mumbai with a Grammy glow and a stiff neck. Just hours before boarding his flight from…
MUMBAI: At least one person died and four others were injured after a portion of an under-construction metro rail pillar collapsed onto an autorickshaw, SUV in Mulund West on Saturday afternoon, officials said. The incident was reported around 12.20 pm near the Johnson & Johnson company on LBS Road. According to preliminary information received by…
Image used for representative purpose only MUMBAI: The Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) has ordered the suspension of a polling officer and a police constable in Solapur after a minor was allowed inside a polling booth along with his father, a candidate in the Zilla Parishad election. The action follows a video that went viral…
Mumbai: Actor Ranveer Singh and filmmaker Rohit Shetty have received fresh threats through a fresh audio clip from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. Investigators said this is the third such recording sent by the gang.In the latest audio, a person claiming to be Harry Boxer, a member of the gang, warns Ranveer for allegedly going back…
Mumbai: The Mira-Bhayander flyover, part of Metro Line 9, will undergo a mandatory third-party road safety audit before opening to traffic, after which Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) plans to operationalise it in phases with only one lane in each direction beyond Golden Nest Circle, officials said.The arrangement will remain in place till the…
Mumbai: Nearly one-and-a-half months after a snake was found inside a toilet of the Mumbai–Solapur Vande Bharat Express, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Central Railway arrested a 37-year-old man from Mumbra on Wednesday.The accused, Jagan Arjun Bhale, a resident of Nashik district, was traced through CCTV footage and apprehended following a tip-off, officials said.The…
MUMBAI: People in the city lost Rs 155 crore to digital arrest scams alone in 2025, a 33% surge compared to the previous year. The spike occurred despite a marginal dip in the number of registered cases, from 195 digital scams in 2024 to 191 in 2025. Investment scams, job frauds, and digital arrest scams…
Mumbai: Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) is designing post-retirement income products to outperform conventional annuities while sustaining the double-digit accumulation returns under the National Pension System, chairman Sivasubramanian Ramann said.Addressing the PFRDA Retire Smart India event in association with TOI, Ramann said the brief goes beyond tweaks. “The biggest challenge that PFRDA has…
