Versova

BMC’s Rs 2,395 crore bridge connecting Versova to Madh gets green nod; set to reduce travel time from an hour to under 10 minutes

October 16, 2025 6:52 pm

At present, there is no direct connectivity between Versova and Madh, so citizens either have to travel via Link Road, SV Road or Western Express Highway.

Centre clears Rs 2,395-crore cable-stayed flyover between Madh Island and Versova; travel time to be down from 45 mins to 5 mins

July 27, 2025 8:55 pm

The cable-stayed flyover will cut down travel time between Madh Island and Versova to five minutes from 45-60 minutes during peak hours.

‘India’s Got Latent’ row: Ranveer Allahbadia fails to appear before police for second time, cops find his Versova home locked

February 14, 2025 11:03 pm

The legal team of Samay Raina claimed the creator of ‘India’s Got Latent’ is in the US and will return to India by February 17 and join the probe.

Torres Ponzi scheme: Cops arrest Ukrainian national from Versova

January 29, 2025 12:15 am

On Saturday night, the EOW has arrested the CEO of Platinum Hern Pvt Ltd that operated Torres brand.

Mumbai: Actor assaulted by biker in Versova in road rage incident

January 05, 2025 10:49 pm

He told the police that he had exited a friend's car and was crossing the road when the speeding biker had to apply a sudden brake to stop the vehicle.

Mysterious deaths: Over 12 years after siblings’ death, court acquits two involved in pest control at their house

January 05, 2025 8:00 am

In July 2012, 25-year-old Rameez Chougule and his sister 27-year-old Rehab passed away, within a day of having carried out pest control at their residence in Versova.

Sada Pawla alias Sada Mama, gangster Arun Gawli’s sidekick on whom Satya’s Kallu Mama was loosely based, had been gunned down by Vijay Salaskar, an ‘encounter specialist’ with the Mumbai Police, in Ghatkopar in 1997. (Illustration: Suvajit Dey)

Shootout at Versova: When gangs & encounter specialists ruled Mumbai

March 23, 2024 10:41 pm

In the Mumbai of the late 1990s and early 2000s, as the underworld and gang violence spun out of control, a group of police officers specialised in taking down the bad guys – no questions asked. Decades later, as the law catches up with one of them, Pradeep Sharma, The Indian Express piece together the world of Mumbai’s ‘encounter specialists’