The girl narrated the ordeal to her parents and approached the police on Wednesday.

Vicky Shinde, a transgender activist and founder of Shivshakti Foundation, said people tend to think of transgenders as sex workers, bar dancers or beggars.

BMC sends notices to building owners, asks them to get structural audit done.

The man was checking a machine, which uses a laser beam to slice metal sheets, after it stopped working, police said. But it suddenly turned back on and the laser caught him on the head.

According to police officers, when the two women were sitting at the promenade, Salmani came and sat near them. He then started making lewd comments, uncomfortable, the women moved away.

Following the incident on December 17, the labour ministry announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to kin of deceased, Rs 2 lakh for serious injury and Rs 1 lakh for those with minor injuries.

Fires in a highrise building or in an area surrounded by highrises often involve these ‘dark spots’ for radio signals, something that all firemen in Mumbai are worried about.

In April 2017, the MHADA kicked off redevelopment work on century-old buildings located in the heart of the city in areas such as Worli, Naigaum and N M Joshi Marg. Over 16,000 families live in these buildings.

Earlier, The Indian Express had reported that fishermen in Worli stalled the geo-technical survey for pillars, due to which the final design of the stretch was delayed.

Police said the accused beat him up, tied him to a tree and castrated him, leaving him lying in a pool of blood.

In January, eight men working in private firms were arrested by the ATS and booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. ATS claims that they were involved in raising funds for the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).

Visiting the wineries in France in the early nineties not only got him to taste the exotic wines there but helped him discover his passion — to explore the world of wines.

In the last one year (January to November), out of 9,634 banners, boards, hoardings, flags and wall defacements removed by the civic body, 58 per cent or 5,621 were political in nature.

In the last three years, the Mumbai Fire Brigade has inspected only 6,142 buildings in Mumbai, issuing notices for violations to 3,026. Of these, only 36 cases have been taken up for prosecution under the Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2006.

Four members of the family, including a 12-year-old boy, which was living in the house where the blast occurred, suffered severe burns and are critical.

“There was a long-pending demand from citizens and many NGOs for pet crematoria. Following which, we proposed crematoria at Mahalaxmi, Deonar and Malad," said a BMC official.

“It appears that there is no evidence of blood (test) of accused submitted by the prosecution. There is no evidence of accused’s urine test... there is no CCTV footage brought on record to prove the alleged incident,” the court said.

Director Dr Vibha Surana said, “We will have to discontinue offering the First-year Bachelor of Arts (FYBA) in Chinese programme from 2019, if full-time positions are not created.”

The recharge of groundwater in 2018 was not highly appreciable as in more than 3,000 villages in the state, groundwater levels had dropped over 3 metres, or to the maximum depth.

As per police claims, the murder conspiracy was hatched by a local villager Vaibhav Patil, allegedly angered by the panchayat’s refusal to give ownership of a piece of forest land to him.

The Yellow Gate police recovered 30 stolen cellphones from the boys’ accommodation last week. All school dropouts, the boys were aged between 14 and 16 years and were recruited from Jharkhand.

Almost 62,000 students studying in these universities and colleges under it would take part in the exercise along with officials and the recommendations based on it implemented in the next kharif season.

Officials from the textile department said that co-operative spinning mills are expected to set up solar power plants in their premises in three years.

To provide international standard education to students in Marathi, their native language, a first-of-its-kind Maharashtra International Education Board came into being on Tuesday.