A shocking case in Palghar saw a woman abducted and subjected to gang rape after her motorcycle skidded off a lonely road (Representative image generated using AI) PALGHAR: A two-wheeler skid on a deserted stretch of road turned into a night of horror for a 19-year-old woman and her male friend in Palghar’s Talasari area,…
A fire ignited in two flats situated on the 11th floor of a Vile Parle building MUMBAI: Two people, including a 2.5-year-old child, died and six others were injured after a fire broke out in two flats on the 11th floor of a residential building in Vile Parle (West) late Tuesday night.The fire erupted around…
Thane: A 27-year-old railway commuter from Ambernath died after allegedly jumping from a moving local train into Mumbra Creek between Diva and Mumbra stations in the early hours of Tuesday, civic rescue officials said.The deceased, identified as a resident of Krishna Nagar, was travelling in a slow Karjat-bound local train. According to the police, preliminary…
Thane: The Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC), on Tuesday, constituted a committee to probe allegations by the family of a minor girl that three pregnancy tests conducted at the Shastri Nagar Hospital in Dombivli without their consent tested positive, while subsequent tests outside the hospital were negative, thereby pushing them and their daughter to immense trauma.The…
Mumbai: Amid the controversy over the proposed restoration of reservation of Bandra’s Neville D’souza Football Ground from a playground to a convention centre, minister and Bandra West MLA Ashish Shelar told TOI that while he was in favour of the sport, the plot’s original reservation could not be altered merely to suit a particular use.He…
Mumbai: Minister Ashish Shelar’s assertion that a land’s original reservation cannot be altered to only suit a particular use appears to be at odds with BMC’s actions. Proposals for changes in land use have been made for multiple sites in the city and a 1,005sm plot housing the now defunct century-old Alexandra Theatre in Byculla…
Devendra Fadnavis said a study by the Centre for Seismic Technology was already underway, but directed authorities to rope in additional reputed institutions to conduct a more comprehensive assessment of the situation Palghar: Four back-to-back earthquake tremors struck Jawhar taluka in Palghar district on Monday night, triggering panic among residents and prompting several people to…
The Bombay High Court urged the Maharashtra FDA to act judiciously concerning Cadila Pharmaceuticals’ medicine ban. MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to act “judiciously” after Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd challenged orders stopping the sale of some of its medicines.A bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge…
Mumbai: Deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday directed that action should be taken against food adulterators, including adulterators of milk and cheese, under organised crime laws like MCOCA.Shinde said milk and dairy product adulterators played with the health of citizens, and especially the lives of young children.“Children drink large amounts of milk. Fake cheese…
(AI image used for representative) Mumbai police have made headlines by unearthing a pickpocketing ring that relied on encrypted WhatsApp chats for coordination “Chacha ne salaam diya”“Aaj mausam kaisa hai?”To an outsider, these may sound like harmless banter. But as MIDC police in Andheri found out last week, these phrases carried a very different message…
