An official said the initiative aims to help undertrials, who on merit, deserve bail, pending disposal of their cases. It would also help unburden prisons that have inmates 30 per cent more than their actual capacity.

After a case of rape was registered against the man, the investigation was transferred to Juhu police station, within whose jurisdiction the offense is alleged to have taken place.

Maharashtra government has proposed, in case of multi-layered packaging, using single-layer plastic with other layers under its ambit.

To ensure smoother movement of traffic, the existing carriageways will be redesigned, with every lane having a fixed width of 3.5 metres.

The police learned that Razzaq was heading back towards Mumbai’s eastern suburbs and Unit 6 of the Mumbai Police Crime Branch trapped him at Chheda Nagar in Chembur on Sunday morning.

The residents want the alignment of the Wadala-Thane-Kasarvadavali corridor to be changed from Amar Mahal junction to Laxmi Nagar.

The two girders were launched on the eight-metre-high pier near Thakur Complex, Kandivali in Mumbai.

Court said the woman has made her choice. ‘She does not wish to go back to her mother. She would rather like to settle down with the petitioner’.

At the helm of Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB), Mumbai Chief Fire Officer (CFO) Prabhat Rahangdale tells Dipti Singh that residents need to shoulder the responsibility of fire safety compliance as much as administration and firefighters.

Sarwan has been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and produced in court on Sunday, where he was remanded to the AIU’s custody until Monday. 

The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, investigating the crash, is expected to submit it’s preliminary report in 15 days.

An officer at Nagpada police station said that when he was arrested in May, Shaikh had given the railway police a false name and a fake address in a slum in Goregaon, concealing his native home in Bidar district.

Institution of Engineers (IEI) and the Practising Engineers, Architects and Town Planners Association (PEATA) will hold a meeting in this regard on July 3

The state government has also clarified that FSI computations for all provisions in the new DCR would be on the basis of net plot area remaining after excluding the plot area reserved for a public amenity or road widening.

Virendra Mishra, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone III, said that the men attacked Koli and stabbed him in the stomach and fled the area

The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) bus service for island city has seen a decrease in daily ridership from 40 lakh to 28 lakh in the past 10 years.

Officials said that the government is likely to authorize and empower the officials of Railways, metro, airport and Maharashtra Maritime Board to take action towards implementation of the regulations.

The Cotton Mission with MCX in Akola, Amravati and Wardha will focus on the creation of cotton farmer producers’ organization (FPOs). The MCX and agriculture department will together identify groups of cotton farmers for the creation of FPOs.

“It was at the AI meet where I learnt which platforms would be suitable to build my software,” said Ajuni Chawla, a 21-year-old law student from Juhu.

Last year, 2,584 candidates to junior colleges had secured above 95 per cent. This has only slightly increased to 2,795 this year.

SIES is now among the 12 autonomous colleges affiliated to the University of Mumbai. The college had applied for autonomy in 2016 but had to reapply last year under the new guidelines.

Officers at Powai police station called up their parents and also the producer of the sitcom, asking if a meeting could be arranged between the actors and the children, but to no avail.

On Saturday the Central Railway (CR) commissioned seven escalators and three lifts, the highest on a single day.

“During their interaction, Hussain touched Sayyed’s hair, which angered him and they started fighting. In a fit of rage, Sayyed stabbed Hussain six times with a knife and fled from the spot,” an officer said.