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MUMBAI: Thousands of pass-engers on Harbour line were inconvenienced on Monday as the 38-hour rail block for the Panvel suburban yard remodelling work got extended by more than four hours. With services resuming at 5.40pm instead of 1.37pm, the situation on stations between Belapur and Panvel was chaotic as platforms got crowded with no trains plying in either directions. Upset, several passengers were...

MUMBAI: A 37-year-old woman from Mumbai was duped of Rs 1.37 lakh by a cyber fraudster in the guise of helping her pay electricity bill online, police said on Monday. The incident came to light when the woman, who stays with her mother, a senior citizen, in suburban Andheri (West), approached the Versova police station with a complaint, said an official. According to the complainant, her mother received...

MUMBAI: Money laundering accused Sujit Patkar had used the reference of his friend and Shiv Sena UBT MP Sanjay Raut to meet additional municipal commissioner Sanjeev Jaiswal during the pandemic for Dahisar and Worli Covid jumbo hospital tender discussion, Enforcement Directorate (ED) said in its chargesheet filed in a special court recently. ED said Patkar had submitted a letter on the letterhead of...

MUMBAI: As part of the nationwide 'Swachhata Hi Seva' initiative, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) held a mass cleanliness drive across 178 locations spanning all 24 civic wards in Mumbai on Sunday morning. The drive witnessed prominent figures like politicians, bureaucrats, film actors join hands with civic laborers devoting their morning to cleaning the city.Speaking at Girgaon Chowpatty,...

THANE: Members of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) held a protest in Thane city opposing the impending toll charge hike at five entry points leading to Mumbai, scheduled to take effect on October 1. The demonstrators, led by Avinash Jadhav and the heads of MNS units in Thane and Palghar, brandished party flags and banners and chanted slogans to express their discontent with the toll increase.Despite...

THANE: Local residents led by the Thane unit of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) staged a peaceful protest on the Eastern Express highway at Anand Nagar condemning the toll rate hike.The hike will be implemented starting October 1 at all five Mumbai entry points.Traffic movement towards Thane or Mumbai was not affected as the protestors stood by the roadside holding placards with messages...

MUMBAI: Developers here pay an average of Rs 5,400 per sqft as approval cost through various premiums exacted by the municipal corporation and other government authorities, said a report by a body representing top builders. It argued that the high premiums are ending up affecting Mumbai's growth trajectory as the country's premier economic hub. Cities such as Delhi NCR, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad...

MUMBAI: A special CBI court in Mumbai on Friday granted bail to former policeman Sachin Waze in connection with a 2021 extortion case filed on the complaint of a hotelier. Waze had approached the special court in August this year after being denied bail by a metropolitan magistrate. Waze, currently in judicial custody in the Antilia bomb scare and other cases being probed by Enforcement Directorate and...

MUMBAI: As the 10-day-long Ganeshotsav concluded on Thursday, thousands of idols of the elephant-headed god were immersed in various water bodies, including artificial ponds, across Mumbai, with a sea of devotees in attendance.Mumbai's famous Lalbaugcha Raja idol, whose procession started at 11.30am on Thursday, was immersed around 9.15am on Friday, said officials.The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation...

MUMBAI: A 16-year-old died at Juhu Chowpatty in Mumbai while Ganpati immersions were ongoing at the beach on Thursday. The teenager was identified as Hasan Yusuf Shaikh. According to the Mumbai fire brigade, Shaikh was traced near the sea at around 4.15 pm on Thursday and was immediately rushed to civic-run Cooper Hospital by an ambulance at the site. Video: What's behind 61,000 lightning strikes within...