Mumbai: News
11 Sep 2017
Mumbai PoliceMumbai: Housing society watchman arrested for sexually abusing dog thrice
Mumbai Police has arrested 41-year-old security-guard Ram Naresh Mishra for sexually assaulting a stray female dog thrice in a housing complex near Chembur Naka.
10 Sep 2017
IndiaCelebrated lawyer Jethmalani retires after 70 years in service
The maverick lawyer who has astounded us with the cases he has taken up, Ram Jethmalani announced his decision to retire to the Bar Council of India. He will be stepping down on September 14.
08 Sep 2017
EducationMumbai University: Law, teachers-training students oppose NOC to switch colleges
Students pursuing Mumbai University's law and teachers' training courses are opposing a new rule that has put them in a fix.
08 Sep 2017
MumbaiJuhu Building Fire: 2-year-old daughter saved us, says laborer's wife
Hasnara Lashkar, the wife of a laborer who survived the fire in an under-construction building at Mumbai's Juhu, said her two-year-old daughter Jubaiya saved their lives.
07 Sep 2017
Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI)Deepak Salvi, the man behind Abu Salem's life imprisonment
When Deepak Salvi, special CBI counsel in the Mumbai blasts hearing against Abu Salem, started fighting the case in 2010, he expected it to be over in six-seven months.
07 Sep 2017
UNESCOMumbai: Residents oppose "World Heritage Site" proposal for Marine Drive
Mumbai's Marine Drive "Heritage" precinct has been nominated by the government to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.
07 Sep 2017
Navi MumbaiYoungest organ donor in Western-India gives life to three-year-old girl
A 14-month-old toddler from Gujarat's Surat has become the youngest organ donor in Western India after his heart was transplanted to a three-and-a-half-year-old girl from Navi Mumbai.
07 Sep 2017
MumbaiMumbai: Fire in under-construction Juhu building; 6 dead, 11 injured
Five laborers and a child were charred to death in a massive fire in an under-construction 13-storey building "Prarthana" in Mumbai's Juhu Vile Parle Development (JVPD) Scheme.
06 Sep 2017
MaharashtraMumbai: 12,000 coconut trees to be planted in six months
In a move aimed at increasing Mumbai's green cover, the city is going to get 12,000 coconut trees along its west coast within the next six months.
06 Sep 2017
MaharashtraMumbai: Union Minister Athawale's 12-year-old son's entry into politics
While it is not uncommon for politicians to hand over the baton to their children, Union Minister of State for Social Justice Ramdas Athawale did something that has stunned everyone.
06 Sep 2017
IndiaSC allows 13-year-old rape survivor to abort pregnancy
Less than a month after a 10-year-old rape survivor was forced to give birth to her rapist's child, the SC has allowed a pregnant 13-year-old alleged victim to undergo an abortion.
06 Sep 2017
MaharashtraMaharashtra Police control rooms to be modernized at Rs. 429cr
The Maharashtra Government has given its go-ahead to a Rs. 429cr-worth project for modernizing the police control rooms in the state.
06 Sep 2017
MaharashtraGanpati Visarjan Maharashtra: Celebrations marred by death of 12 people
Hundreds of thousands of devotees in Maharashtra bid adieu to Lord Ganesh during the Visarjan rituals yesterday on the last day of the 12-day long Ganeshotsav, Anant Chaturdashi.
05 Sep 2017
Marine DriveMumbai: IIT-B to study properties' elevation levels on Malabar Hill
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to appoint the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay at a Rs. 1.91cr cost for studying the elevation-levels of buildings on south Mumbai's Malabar Hill.
05 Sep 2017
IndiaMost number of India's building collapse incidents happen in Mumbai
Over the past few years, incidents of old buildings collapsing have frequently been recorded in India.
05 Sep 2017
SecurityMumbai: 40,000 police personnel, drones to monitor Ganapati Visarjan processions
As the 10-day Ganeshotsav comes to an end, the Mumbai Police have stepped up the security arrangements to avoid any breakdown of law and order in the city.
05 Sep 2017
Ganesh ChaturthiMumbai: Less buses, more trains on last day of Ganeshotsav
Owing to congested Mumbai roads filled with Visarjan processions on the last day of Ganeshotsav, less than 50% BEST buses would operate today.
05 Sep 2017
Navi MumbaiWoman raped, duped of Rs. 10L by Facebook friend
A 32-year-old woman from Navi Mumbai's Panvel was allegedly raped and also conned of Rs. 10L by Sandeep alias Kunal Khanna.
04 Sep 2017
Supreme Court Of IndiaMumbai to see loud Ganapati Visarjan after SC stays order
Mumbai will see its usual loud Ganapati Visarjan tomorrow, as the Supreme Court today stayed an order by the Bombay High Court banning the use of loudspeakers in Maharashtra.
04 Sep 2017
Crime Against WomenWoman pulled off train for resisting robber; gets run over
Sudhir Bansal, a 43-year-old woman, fell off a moving train and died as she tried to resist a robber from snatching her handbag at the door.
04 Sep 2017
New ZealandMan dupes diamond seller of Rs. 1.33cr-worth diamonds; gets arrested
Mumbai's DB Marg Police arrested a man named Pinal Shah for allegedly cheating a diamond shop owner of Rs. 1.33 crore.
04 Sep 2017
Crime Against WomenMan calls woman "chammak challo"; gets imprisoned
Thane Magistrate Court convicted a Ghodbunder Road resident for insulting a woman using the word "chammak challo" in 2009.
04 Sep 2017
Central RailwayNow, "Re. 1 Clinics" at Central Railway stations to shut-down
Only three months after being kicked off, Mumbai's "Re.1 Clinics" at eight Central Railway stations, including Dadar and Ghatkopar, are being shut down after becoming the "victims" of railway officials' "infighting."
04 Sep 2017
EducationThree Mumbai primary teachers among 350 national teacher awardees
Three primary school teachers from Mumbai would receive National Teachers Awards from President Ram Nath Kovind on the occasion of Teacher's Day.
04 Sep 2017
Mumbai UniversityMumbai: Versova man loses Rs. 1.45L in cyber credit-card fraud
Tahir Sheikh of Mumbai's Versova was duped of Rs. 1.45L in a cyber-fraud when his public sector bank credit-card was used on Indian and global portals by cyber-criminals.
04 Sep 2017
Animal RightsMumbai: Dog critical after being assaulted with an iron rod
In a shocking case of animal torture, CCTV footage has surfaced showing a youth in Mumbai's Vakola assaulting a stray dog with an iron rod.
04 Sep 2017
Education250 Mumbai University students 'fail' due to careless paper checking
Students of Mumbai University have had a harrowing exam session. For the last two months, lakhs had to deal with delayed results that halted their future plans. The university's new digital evaluation system turned out more messy than revolutionary.
03 Sep 2017
MaharashtraMumbai to soon have India's longest cycling, jogging track
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis has approved Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's plan to build a 39km-long cycling and jogging track along Mumbai's Tansa pipeline at a cost of Rs. 300cr.
03 Sep 2017
MaharashtraMaharashtra: Government links contractors' toll exemption compensation to road quality
Maharashtra's government has decided to pay toll-exemption compensation to contractors based on the quality of roads.
03 Sep 2017
Navi MumbaiPosing as night-shift workers, duo steals from parked cars
Two friends from Mumbai's Nalasopara, Jaynand Mandal and Subhesh Mishra, were arrested for stealing things from parked cars at night by breaking the window panes.
03 Sep 2017
Navi MumbaiMumbai: Family bought room for Rs. 74L, wiped-out in collapse
Syed Jafar Husain's family, who died in Husaini Building collapse in Mumbai's Bhendi Bazaar, bought a room for Rs. 74L in it from Sakina Arsiwala only in 2013.
03 Sep 2017
IndiaSEBI sees 18% fall in pending investor complaints
According to the data published in the 2016-17 Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the number of investor grievances, pending with the market regulator, has declined almost 18% till March-end.
02 Sep 2017
ThaneThane: 33-year-old building dangerously tilts; residents evacuated
The Thane Municipal Corporation evacuated a 33-year-old, four-storied building "Noorani Mahal" that dangerously tilted in Mumbra.
02 Sep 2017
Crime Against WomenMumbai: International business school director booked on molestation charges
Mumbai's Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) police have booked the director of a US-based international business school for molesting and outraging the modesty of a 31-year-old woman employee.
02 Sep 2017
MaharashtraMumbai: "Hero" loco-pilots of derailed Duronto Express to be felicitated
Indian Railways is going felicitate the locomotive pilot (engine driver) Virender Singh and senior assistant loco pilot Abhay Kumar of the Mumbai-bound Duronto Express that recently derailed near Asangaon.
01 Sep 2017
Mumbai Metro Rail CorporationMumbai Monorail to get five new rakes by next year
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is going to acquire five new Monorail rakes having four swanky, comfortable coaches each by the end of 2018.
01 Sep 2017
MaharashtraBhendi Bazaar Collapse: How 21-year-old's call fetched rescue teams
When the old building in Mumbai's Bhendi Bazaar collapsed, it was 21-year-old Ahmed Ali's call to the police control-room that fetched help.
01 Sep 2017
MaharashtraBhendi Bazaar building collapse: 34 dead, 46 rescued so far
At least 34 people have died as the 117-year-old Hussaini building at Mumbai's Bhendi Bazaar collapsed on 31 August, said the police.
01 Sep 2017
MaharashtraMumbai: Commuters stage "rail roko" protest at Vasind
Agitated that local train services on Mumbai's Titwala-Kasara route haven't resumed even three days after the Duronto Express derailment, commuters staged a "rail roko" protest at Vasind station.