A 22-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stalking and outraging the modesty of a woman in Colaba in south Mumbai, a police official said on Friday.Accused Nuren Mohammed Khalid, a resident of Govandi, is originally from Basti in Uttar Pradesh and had come to Mumbai four months ago. “He is a tailor. On Wednesday, he followed a 58-year-old woman till …
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Under new centralised Debris on Call service, collection of up to 500 kg of debris is free Aiming to make debris disposal more accessible and efficient, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has introduced an upgraded Debris on Call service in Mumbai. Under the new system, the BMC will not charge any fees for the collection of up to 500 kg of debris. …
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A fire broke out at a shunting coach of a train on Friday evening at the Lower Parel workshop in central Mumbai during routine maintenance work, the officials said. Shunting coaches is the process of sorting and reassembling the coaches and wagons into trains or separating them from the trains. The officials said that the blaze was at around 6:45 …
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Mumbai, Dec 4 (PTI) No one has the fundamental right to harass public officers with repeated complaints on the same issue, the Bombay High Court has said refusing to quash the BMC’s circular declaring four individuals as ‘persona non-grata’. A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Kamal Khata on Tuesday said while it was not in any way …
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A three-day special session of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly will be held in Mumbai from December 7 to enable newly-elected MLAs to take oath and elect a speaker, legislature sources told news agency PTI on Wednesday. The winter session of the state legislature will be held in Nagpur from December 16 to 21. The sources told PTI that newly-elected MLAs …
Read More »During today’s meeting, Fadnavis’ name was proposed by former state minister Sudhir Mungantiwar and received unanimous support from the newly-elected MLAs. Ending the long-standing suspense over the next Maharashtra CM, in the core committee meeting of BJP Wednesday, former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis was elected as leader at the Vidhan Bhavan. Fadnavis, along with other Mahayuti leaders, is expected to …
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Minister of Higher and Technical Education Chandrakant Patil announced on Saturday that over 1,400 colleges in the state are ready to implement the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. ‘From this new academic session, 1,270 post graduate institutes, 87 autonomous colleges of arts and commerce and 50 polytechnic and engineering colleges, are going to implement the National Education Policy 2020,’ Patil …
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The commission has ordered the developer to provide the buyers with the flat they originally booked. In a significant decision, the state consumer commission has issued a range of relief options to flat buyers in Tilak Nagar. Additionally, the commission has directed developers to comply with certain directives within a specified time frame, failure of which will result in additional …
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Fire Breaks Out At Trident Hotel At Nariman Point; Visuals Surface Initially, reports suggested that a fire had broke out at around 7 am in the building resulting in smoke coming out of the roof. A video showing black smoke coming out of the rooftop of Mumbai’s Trident Hotel building at Nariman Point surfaced on the internet on Sunday morning. …
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The incident occurred at approximately 08:25 am when one trolley wheel of a coach in the empty rake service derailed. In a recent incident at Ambernath siding, an empty EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) rake known as a local train derailed, resulting in the disruption of Down (DN) train services between Kalyan and Karjat. The incident occurred at approximately 08:25 am …
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