Mumbai: A fire broke out in the bedroom of a ninth floor flat in a Goregaon East highrise on Friday around 9.10am. No one was injured in the incident. According to fire brigade officials, while the firefighting system of the ground-plus 45-storey D B Wood building on Krushna Vatika Road in Gokuldham was functional, they…
Mumbai: The Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) launched an investigation by the deputy collector (Encroachments) following complaints of demolished huts being re-erected and occupants who moved into these structures being declared eligible for free housing under the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP).Activist and founder-member of Manohar Joshi College, Baburao Mane, in a complaint to SRA, alleged that…
Kalyan: Work on Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation’s 150-bed cancer hospital will soon commence in Dombivli, even as a 500-bed corporate hospital will open on Saturday. The Kalyan-Dombivli belt is clearly witnessing a post-Covid boom in healthcare, with a 50% increase in hospital beds since 2020.From 4,720 beds before Covid, the bed strength jumped to 7,138…
Mumbai: Barely two days after the city’s first melody road was inaugurated, residents from Breach Candy wrote to the Municipal Commissioner, raising strong objections to the music being played along the northbound stretch of the city’s Coastal Road which cuts through residential neighbourhoods.Residents said they were increasingly fatigued from repeatedly raising serious civic concerns, only…
Mumbai: In a relief for NCP leader and former state minister Eknath Khadse and his wife Mandakini, a special court on Friday cancelled the non-bailable warrants (NBW) previously issued against them. The warrants were rescinded after the couple appeared in person and cited a Bombay high court stay on the proceedings. The proceedings took place…
Mumbai: Vakola police have arrested an autorickshaw driver under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act for allegedly stalking an underage college girl in Santacruz (E) on February 9. The accused, Shreeramkumar Saav (35), is currently in judicial custody, police said.On February 9, around 11.30am, the girl boarded the autorickshaw on Golibar Road…
Mumbai: In a bid to find a lasting solution to chronic monsoon flooding at Andheri subway, the BMC has appointed a consultant to carry out a feasibility study for constructing a flyover above it. The consultant has been asked to submit the report within three months.Mogra nullah, which runs close to Andheri subway, has a…
Mumbai: Former director of Lodha Developers, Rajendra Lodha, was produced before the special PMLA court on Friday and remanded to Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody till February 20. Lodha was arrested on Thursday in a money laundering case related to a Rs 85-crore fraud case. Seeking his custody, special public prosecutor Sunil Gonsalves, for the ED,…
Mumbai: The Indian Navy has initiated a board of inquiry into a fire that erupted at a waste stockyard at the Naval Dockyard on Thursday night. “The fire was brought under control within 30 minutes,” said a source, adding that no one was injured in the incident.A naval team assessed the damaged material and found…
MUMBAI: Doubling down on the threats against the Indian film industry, Harry Boxer, a prominent member of the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi gang, released a fresh audio clip targeting actor Ranveer Singh and filmmaker Rohit Shetty.This marked the 3rd time the gangster issued such a recording, signalling a persistent campaign of intimidation against Bollywood actors.In the…
