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Mumbai: A day after the railway ministry stayed the demolition of slums along the Kurla-Trombay railway line, citing safety and operational concerns, a group of activists and political leaders met chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and sought permanent rehabilitation of the slumdwellers.Led by NCP leader Haji Mudassar Patel, the delegation on Wednesday told Fadnavis that 3,762…

Thane: A court in Maharashtra’s Thane district has sentenced a 35-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for the repeated sexual assault of a minor girl.Sentencing Dhondiram Tukaram Bansode, Special Judge (POCSO) V A Patravale from the Kalyan court said that the testimony of a survivor in sexual offence cases carries significant weight and…

Navi Mumbai: A Navi Mumbai police constable was arrested for allegedly murdering a friend who started seeing a woman he was in a relationship with. He allegedly strangled the friend to death with the help of three aides in Navi Mumbai’s Kalamboli, drove 190km in his car to a Satara village, set the body on…

Palghar: A helicopter landed on a school playground in Saphale (Palghar district) on Tuesday afternoon after a technical glitch was noticed by one of the pilots. No one was injured, and the helicopter flew back to Mumbai after the snag was resolved. The helicopter was used for training purposes by a private firm, and police…

MUMBAI: As Mumbai pushes ahead with infrastructure projects, housing redevelopments and a growing manufacturing ecosystem, an invisible but critical industry is quietly shaping the city’s environmental future — metal recycling.In the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), metal recycling units together have a plant capacity of over 9,900 metric tonnes per month and are currently recycling more…

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday asked BMC to deposit Rs 12 crore with 5 per cent interest and posted for further hearing a petition filed by the National Sports Club of India (NSCI), which is claiming Rs 40 crore from the civic administration for letting out its premises in Worli for a Jumbo…

MUMBAI: Five Bangladeshi nationals, four of them women, were arrested by the Oshiwara Police for living in India illegally. A seven-year-old Bangladeshi girl was also found with the group. The girl’s details have been shared with the Special Branch of Mumbai Police and the Foreign Nationals Registration Officer.Police acted on specific information and arrested the…

MUMBAI: A stretch of the Mumbai Coastal Road will now play music as vehicles drive over it, making it India’s first “musical road”.The initiative will be inaugurated by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday, February 11, at 12.30 pm. The musical road has been created on the northbound lane from Nariman Point towards Worli. After…

MUMBAI: BJP’s Ritu Tawde and Eknath Shinde led Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Ghadi was announced as the Mumbai Mayor and deputy Mayor respectively on Wednesday, by the BMC administrator Bhushan Gagrani in a special meeting that was called at the civic headquarters at 12 noon. Tawde took over from the administrator which was in place in…