The state government on Friday told the Bombay High Court that it has formed a special task force to find solutions to the problem of plastic waste management.

Commuters from across the state were in for a rude shock on Friday morning, when they reached their respective bus stands only to find out that workers of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) had decided to go on a flash strike.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided not to go on the back foot about demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax instead, will take the impact of the reforms to the people to further its anti-corruption plank in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

The Govandi police arrested five men for allegedly firing two rounds from a country-made pistol on Thursday.

Mobile ticketing will change the way Mumbai travels, said Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday while speaking at the fourth anniversary celebrations of Mumbai Metro One.

RETURNING TO studies after a gap of 20 years was no mean task for 36-year-old Sushma Ombale, a homemaker and mother of two. And yet, she scored 61 per cent in her Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam, more than her 15-year-old son.

With the monsoon arriving in Maharashtra on Friday, it is likely to reach Mumbai on Saturday. The weather department has predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall at one or two places in the city on Saturday.

The police said Kamaljit Singh had been arrested earlier for allegedly stealing a service pistol and 30 rounds of ammunition from the house of a police constable posted with the Anti-Terrorism Squad.

After facing criticism over an open and unattended manhole posing a threat to people in the middle of a Central Mumbai road, the BMC on Friday registered an FIR in the matter.

After two years of poor performance, students in the Mumbai division of the Maharashtra state board appear to have done marginally better in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam this year.

An Iranian national, who has been overstaying in Pune after her visa expired, has alleged that she was beaten up by policewomen at the Foreigner Registration Office (FRO) of Pune police commissionerate on Thursday.

The study found that hospitals, empanelled under MPJAY, on an average used 1.55 stents in a patient and called for “conservative use of stents in coronary angioplasty”.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday cancelled a directive issued to the Mumbai municipality just two days before sanctioning Mumbai’s new development plan.

THE Mumbai police on Monday had to stop a funeral procession of a four-year-old boy and take his body into custody after Bhabha Hospital doctors complained that the family had whisked away the body before the mandatory post-mortem.

Mumbai rains: The weather department has forecast “very heavy” rainfall in the city over the weekend and advised people to stay indoors on Friday and Saturday. 

For the benefit of those observing Roza during the holy month, men like Fakhrun Jama deliver milk to houses early in the morning, ensuring that the customers have the supply for sehri — the meal that sees them through till the end of the day.

The All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Rahul Gandhi will address the booth-level party workers on June 12 in Mumbai.

The Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority (MWRRA) is considering a proposal through which Viability Gap Funding (VGF) can be provided to private players for sewage treatment.

A month since the state government announced a special package to help dairy farmers realise better prices for milk, farmers continue to face the effects of low prices.

The Sena president announced the name of Sriniwas Wanga, the son of late BJP MP Chintaman Wanga, as the party candidate for the Palghar Lok Sabha seat in the 2019 polls.

The accident occurred after the minibus they were travelling in rammed into a stationary truck near Chandwad. According to police, the incident occurred around 5.50 am.

A 41-year-old man employed with a private bank has been allegedly duped of Rs 12.55 lakh by a ‘fake’ online dating website. The police said the complainant paid Rs 12.55 lakh to the alleged fraudsters after they promised him a ‘date’ with girls in the city. 

A CROWDFUNDING campaign was launched on Wednesday by protesting students at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, to aid OBC students, who are unable to pay the fees for the upcoming semester.

Close to a year since 34 people died after a building collapsed in Bhendi Bazaar, the monsoon this year has residents on the edge.