FOLLOWING suggestions from security agencies, the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) has issued fresh directives making it mandatory for any approaching sailing vessel, including dhows, barges, pleasure crafts ......read more
THE city is set to sport a more colourful look across various wards if a proposal commissioned by the civic body is implemented. Under its branding exercise, BMC may soon colour code 24 wards. The pla......read more
NEARLY a year after the state housing board conducted an internal inquiry on its amenity plots allotted to charitable trusts and other organisations before 2003, it has started taking back those that ......read more
EVEN AS the number of international students is an important parameter in world rankings, Mumbai University has, for the first time, seen a massive jump — from 86 foreign students in 2009-10 and 47 in......read more
Police Sunday initiated a departmental inquiry against three personnel from Khar police station after Dr Rustom Sonawala, accused of raping a TB patient, escaped from custody a day earlier.
“We have ......read more
A TEAM of Delhi police reached Mumbai Sunday to probe the links between their spot fixing case and the Mumbai Police Crime Branch arrests of bookies earlier this week.
“The Delhi police team visited ......read more
An employee of a five-star hotel in Santacruz was arrested Sunday for allegedly raping his colleague several times in the past two years on the pretext of marrying her. Police said, last week, accused......read more
To mark its 125 years as the voice of the East Indian community, which claims to be the original inhabitants of Mumbai, Thane, Vasai and Raigad, the Mobai Gaothan Panchayat (MGP) has opened a museum ......read more
RELATIVES of a 28-year-old woman who died Sunday at Sion Hospital after post-delivery complications, staged a protest at a nursing home in Dharavi, where she had been earlier admitted. They accused do......read more
MUMBAIKARS are not impressed with the new Mumbai logo commissioned by the civic administration recently.
“The logo does not help one connect with the city. The symbol can represent any city, or even ......read more
SAHAR police have initiated a probe into the disappearance of a packet of diamonds worth Rs 3.91 crore, which allegedly went missing during transit to Belgium earlier this week.
The complainant is an......read more
RAILWAY Protection Force (RPF) has booked two commuters for vandalising an Automatic Ticket Vending Machine (ATVM) at Kanjurmarg station Friday. The duo was fined Rs 200 each by the railway court.
“T......read more
THE Central Railway (CR) has undertaken a pilot project to reduce its carbon footprint at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) in Mumbai division and Tikekarwadi in Solapur division. For this, it is loo......read more
A 25-YEAR-OLD man was allegedly murdered by his younger brother after an argument Saturday. The accused told Mulund police the deceased used to harass him and their father for money. Police said the d......read more