According to the suspension letter issued by Commissioner Ganesh Patil, official Yuvaraj Bhadane had been found guilty of storing official papers in his locker.

The tender document, which invites contractors for undertaking the work from both municipal as well as private premises, estimates the cost of removing these trees to be over Rs 150 crore between April 2016 and April 2018.

An officer from Pydhonie police station said, “The victim had visited Zaveri Bazaar along with her relative. But she was returning home alone as her relative had some work in the market.”

The incident took place at Wanicha Pada in Yeoor gaon, atop the Yeoor hill, sources said.

On Monday, a section of the wall between nine-odd buildings and the railway tracks at Sandhurst Road gave way. While north-bound trains were affected on the main line for some time, the services resumed within an hour.

A senior police officer said of the nearly 50,000-strong Mumbai Police force, many young officers stay in Thane or Navi Mumbai and travel to the city by trains.

The constables, who are posted with the local arms department of Mumbai police, intimated Azad Maidan police station. The police station is on the ground floor of the same building.

During the course of the probe, the police had found the gun allegedly used in the crime, dumped near a tree outside the building. An additional round was also recovered. The items were sent to the Kalina Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for analysis.

“Since the girl is a minor, based on her statement, an FIR was registered,” said Nitin Bobade, senior inspector, Mankhurd police station.

The bench is hearing a plea filed by the MMRC to modify an order passed by the high court in August 2017, stating that no construction or ancillary activity can be carried out between 10 pm to 6 am.

On Monday, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar announced on Twitter that six institutes - three public and three private - had been selected as “Institute of Eminence”.

Godrej executives did not want to comment on the matter, but NHSRCL officials said the company has not made any monetary demand for the original land and has merely offered another site.

Last week, the Interpol had issued a RCN against Choksi’s nephew Nirav Modi, his brother Neeshal Modi and close aide Subhash Parab — all accused in the alleged fraud.

The Met department has issued a warning of extremely heavy rainfall in Palghar and Thane till Thursday. The local police urged residents to step out only in case of emergencies. 

Commuters travelling from the international airport were asked to take a U-turn below Centaur flyover before Parla junction, proceed north on WEH through the Bisleri Junction and take the SV Road through Teli Galli and Gokhale flyover.

“The group of picnickers had stepped into the water while it was raining heavily. Harpale slipped and fell. By the time local residents found him, he had stopped breathing,” an officer from MIDC police station said.

With the incessant rainfall for the past few days, Tulsi lake, one of the seven lakes that supplies drinking water to the city, started overflowing from 7.30 am on Monday. This is the first lake to overflow this season.

While the Santacruz observatory received 122 mm of rainfall in these 24 hours, the automatic weather stations (AWS) of the BMC recorded maximum rainfall at Mulund East and Goregaon at 186.8 mm and 186 mm, respectively.

Retired bureaucrat Satish Tripathi, who had served as the General Administration Department (GAD) secretary, recently submitted his report regarding reforms that could be carried out in the Lokayukta Act.

UNESCO has declared South Mumbai’s Victorian and Art Deco ensembles as a World Heritage Site. Conservation expert Abha Narain Lambah talks to The Indian Express on what it means for Mumbai and the challenges ahead.

Ajay Mathur, director general of The Energy Research Institute and president of the GRIHA Council, told The Indian Express that the retrofitted buildings have helped save 18-27 percent of the energy consumption of these government buildings.

On Saturday, at least 100 members of the community undertook a morcha in Sakri in Dhule to demand protection for members of their community and to bring all those responsible for the lynching to justice.

On July 1, five members of the Dongri Nath Panthi Gosavi community, nomads who beg for a living, were killed on suspicion of being child kidnappers by a mob of over 3,500 men in Rainpada hamlet of Dhule in Maharashtra, 350 kilometres from Mumbai.

In his defamation suit, Swapnil Kale claimed that Pokharkar accused him of stealing the cheque. While cross-examining Nalawade and Kale, Pokharkar is accused of putting forward “slanderous” suggestions that Kale was responsible for stealing the cheque.