“Thousands of hawkers are affected due to the criteria of submitting domicile. Many who fail to submit it will resort of illegal hawking. BMC officials need to look into the matter,” said Dayashankar Singh, president of Azad hawkers union.

The BMC wanted to acquire the 13,460 square metre plot in Jogeshwari for a recreation ground, but failed to do so in time. The private owner of the land had issued the civic body a purchase notice.

Data from the BMC health department shows that in July alone, of 97 leptospirosis cases, 43 patients fell in the age bracket of 15 to 29 years.

The police suspect that the accused may have targeted other gold merchants in the past and are checking if they have any previous cases registered against them.

Accused created fake website, cheated at least 40 people.

The Bombay High Court was hearing a petition against the organisers and contractors of the ‘Make in India’ function held at Girgaum Chowpatty in 2016, where a fire had gutted the stage and damaged a section of the beach.

The consortium of Larsen & Toubro-Scomi Engineering (LTSE) has demanded more than five times the earlier trip rate to run the country’s only monorail corridor between Chembur and Wadala.

The report was filed following previous orders by the Bombay High Court in April that directed the state government to set up a centralised grievance redressal mechanism for residents to lodge complaints.

Barkat Ali Dargah is located at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Chowk and the blink-and-miss entry point from where one can climb stairs to reach the top is behind a dilapidated police chowky.

The accused would reportedly come into the living room of the house when his wife was busy with other chores and touch the student inappropriately.

On July 24, the railways shut the bridge for pedestrians and vehicles after a structural audit by the Indian Institute of Technology-Powai found it to be “heavily corroded”. The IIT report suggested that the bridge be demolished at the earliest.

Just over 30 protesters turned up at Azad Maidan on Wednesday for the ‘Jail Bharo’ protest, organised by the Maratha Kranti Morcha. Even as organisers conceded that confusion among various groups and fear of serious police cases had contributed to the poor turnout, the faithful protesters waited on a humid Mumbai day to get arrested. […]

“The accused lived close to the complainant’s house. On Friday night, he allegedly offered to drop her when she was going to buy groceries,” an officer said.

Anticipating a much larger protest, 220 policemen were stationed in and around Azad Maidan as a precautionary measure, said senior police inspector of Azad maidan police station Vasant Wakhare.

The court was hearing a petition filed by Owais Anwar Pechkar, a resident of Chiplun city in Kokan region, seeking directions to expedite the widening of National Highway-66 into a four-lane road.

Earlier this month, Maharashtra government announced that there would be no difference in the MRP of food products sold outside and inside multiplexes in the state and viewers will be free to carry their own eatables inside the multiplex.

Maratha Kranti Morcha's demands also include an apology or resignations from Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil for hurting the sentiments of the community.

“The 22-year-old saw the victim speaking to a male classmate outside her tuition class. Later in the day, she threatened to inform the girl’s parents and asked for money... she also threatened to defame her in the locality,” a police official said.

A society’s managing committee will invite a fine of Rs 25,000 if it failed to submit audit accounts and other mandatory documents.

Carrying heavy equipment like tripods, cable cams or dollies (wheeled cart, which carries the camera), grips require fitness and endurance.

In April 2017, the accused in both the criminal cases had approached the Bombay High Court seeking quashing of the FIRs, claiming that they had reached a settlement. The HC, however, had disallowed it and directed for the trial to go on.

On Tuesday, special public prosecutor B P Raju submitted a revised list of 10 documents, nine on evidence in the Sohrabuddin case and one on Tulsiram.

According to police, the complainant, a housewife from Shil-Daighar was cheated by the accused of Rs 4 lakh when she approached the police.

On April 12, the railways shut a bridge on the southern side as they wanted to build the new bridge within four months. The railways had demolished the middle bridge which connects platforms at either ends.