NAVI MUMBAI: The NMMC commissioner, Rajesh Narvekar, has issued notices to the civic engineers responsible for the Morbe Dam upkeep, after a few BJP politicians visited the dam site without permission on Sunday to perform jal puja since the dam waters had started overflowing on account of a good monsoon.BJP leader Sanjeev Naik, the first mayor of Navi Mumbai, and others performed puja at the dam and...
KALYAN: Fed up with the treatment of his 10-year-old mentally challenged daughter, a drunk man strangled her to death in Dombivli.Manoj Agrahari, 38, has been arrested on the complaint of the girl’s mother Lilavati. Lavli was being treated in a hospital in Thane and Manoj was finding it difficult to meet the expenses. Frustrated, he used to say, “There is no use of a retarded daughter, she should be...
THANE: The Bhiwandi Crime Branch unit of the Thane Police has arrested a gang of four men involved in the theft of auto-rickshaws from Mumbai and Thane districts.The gang used to sell the autos in the interior regions of Maharashtra after altering their number plates. Law enforcement has successfully recovered 18 stolen auto-rickshaws from the accused.The arrested men have been identified as Rashid...
PALGHAR: Police were rushed to tackle chaos at a hospital in Maharashtra's Palghar district in the early hours of Saturday after an injured teen, who apparently tripped trying to escape cops, was declared dead, an official said on Saturday.The police asserted that Vinod Bhoir (18) likely experienced a heart attack while attempting to flee, leading to his demise. However, the family members of the young...
KALYAN: Three persons died while five others suffered injuries in major explosion occurred at Century Company, located in the Shahad area of Thane District's Ulhasnagar on Saturday.The injured people were transported to Century Hospital. The blast occurred at around 11.30am within one of Century Company's manufacturing units.Following the incident, other staff members from the company's unit rushed the...
MUMBAI: There's a 13% jump in the number of Ganpati mandals receiving permission to erect pandals on city roads this year, according to data received from BMC on Monday. In fact, this Ganeshotsav will see the highest number of pandals with BMC granting approvals to 2,729 mandals so far. Last year, 2,417 mandals had got approvals.This year, BMC received 3,767 applications, of which 1,038 were rejected...
RAIGAD: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has taken a treasury officer into custody for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 6,000 from a retired government employee in Maharashtra's Raigad district. The accused, identified as Maruti Ramchandra Pawar, is said to have solicited the bribe from the complainant, Kashibai Tukaram Mahabale, a retired health department worker aged 62. The bribe was allegedly...
THANE: The father of an dead eight-month-old baby boy managed to evade the security and fled from the Kalwa CSM Hospital facility with his body in Thane on Friday morning after doctors insisted on post-mortem report of the baby, the police said.The baby was brought in a semi-conscious state around 11pm on Thursday. The baby was initially admitted to a private hospital for respiratory ailments but the...
MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday evening left for a tour of Ayodhya where he will offer prayers to Lord Ram. Shinde boarded a flight for Lucknow from Mumbai airport. Shinde is accompanied by leaders his Shiv Sena faction, MPs and MLAs, and leaders of ally BJP. It will be Shinde's maiden visit to Ayodhya after taking charge as Maharashtra chief minister in June 2022 and after...
KALYAN: The police have arrested one out of the two employees who stole Rs 45 lakh cash given by a jeweller to deposit in a bank in Kalyan. The main accused fled to Rajasthan from where police have arrested his associate involved in the crime, while the former is still at large. The arrested accused has been identified as Jagdish Devashi. The duo worked at the Shanklesha jwellery shop situated in Kalyan...
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