"I usually read on my Kindle as it is compact and fits into my purse. I began reading a lot more after I got the Kindle," says Gul Panag.

The NIA was responding to a petition challenging the permission granted by the trial court to bring on record photocopies of missing statement of witnesses as secondary evidence.

The minimum temperature recorded on Thursday by the Met department at Colaba was 17.6 degrees Celsius and 15 degrees at Santacruz. It was 1.5 degrees and 1.9 degrees Celsius below normal, respectively.

The incident took place on the premises of Girdhar Park housing society at Mith Chowki, Malad West, at 11.30 am when Rajukumar Yadav, who works as a driver for Nirmal Gupta, was reversing his Toyota Innova car to park it.

The plot, however, unravelled last week and the police had registered a non-cognisable complaint (NC) against the builder and his employers. A day after the plot unravelled, the builder’s mother died following a heart attack.

Indian authorities have said six sailors have been killed, four have been rescued and six are still missing.

Amid demands from environmental activists that the entire 1,280 hectares of Aarey Colony be declared a protected forest, CM Fadnavis-led urban development (UD) department, which sanctioned the land use plan for Aarey on Friday, has approved a commercial zone inside the colony.

Earlier, the Mumbai Port Trust had built a jetty at the Kanhoji Angre island to provide ferry services.

A petition demanded regulation of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google during the no-campaign (silent) period before voting commences.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Amruta said, “Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joining active politics is a welcome step. When a woman joins politics, it is truly heartening for all women. In that sense, I extend my greetings.”

The proposal for two cluster colleges received nod for which a grant of Rs 55 crore was approved for each, apart from funds sanctioned for autonomous colleges.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has sought a financial aid of Rs 7,962 crore from the Centre for the drought-hit areas.

The party said its manifesto will focus on the common man, and promise housing, free access to healthcare and a subsidised supply of drinking water and electricity.

Party’s 13 district heads replaced ahead of polls, jumbo poll committees announced to take everyone along.

The two ships carrying crew members from India, Turkey and Libya caught fire Monday while fuel was being transferred from one vessel to another. The mishap killed at least 12 seamen.

The statement comes close on the heels of a similar statement decrying “the injustice being meted out to one of IIM system’s illustrious alumni, Prof. Anand Teltumbde, under false charges” issued last week by 23 faculty members at IIM Ahmedabad.

Then 22, Manas was suffering from clinical depression and undergoing treatment. He had then written a note and left his Pune hostel room. But that bid to run away was foiled when his family rushed to Pune sensing something was amiss.

The accused, all of them unemployed, have petty cases registered against them in the past, said police.

Laxman Dubey, the captain of merchant vessel, Khalijia III, was acquitted of all charges, including those under the Environment Protection Act, by the Ballard Pier metropolitan magistrate.

The confiscated plastic is stored in various ward offices and the civic body is now planning to invite tenders for disposing of the collected plastic.

The petitioner Vivek Tambe told the court that he objects to the wrong birth and death dates of the queen and that there are certain depictions in the film that are contrary to records.

According to the BMC, there are over 800 beds in 74 charitable hospitals that are reserved for free treatment of poor patients. These charitable hospitals include Jaslok, Lilavati, Nanavati and Bhatia hospitals, among others.

On Wednesday, the maximum temperature was 27 degrees Celsius in Colaba, 2.5 degrees below normal.

The aviation firm was carrying out repairs on the Beechcraft King Air, C-90, VT-UPZ that crashed into an under-construction building in Ghatkopar West on June 28, 2018.