The passengers of the car — all of them in their early 20s and residents of Mumbai — were on their way to Pune to attend a wedding, said police. It is suspected that the driver of the car lost control of the vehicle after one of its tyres burst.

In a recent meeting convened by the Defence Ministry and attended by representatives from 62 cantonments, the latter had raised the issue of road closure by the Army in cantonments across the country.

The Congress on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra Police what action had been taken so far in the abetment to suicide case lodged against three people, including Republic TV’s editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, following the death of an interior designer at his residence in Alibaug near Mumbai.

In less than 72 hours after Chhagan Bhujbal was granted bail, he received more than a dozen leaders from the Congress, Shiv Sena, BJP and his party NCP in the hospital where he is undergoing treatment.

Two days after the Congress announced Vishwajeet Kadam as their official candidate for the Assembly by-election for Palus-Kadegaon seat in Sangli district, the BJP declared Sangramsingh Deshmukh as their candidate.

Data gathered through Right to Information (RTI) from the public health department had showed that 13,541 pediatric deaths have been recorded between April 2017 and February 2018.

The Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC) has observed that there is an urgent need for infrastructure upgradation and appointment of teachers after it analysed a detailed report from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

In the 2015 civic elections, the Shiv Sena had won 52 seats, while BJP won 42 seats in the 122-members civic body. MNS has nine corporators, Congress four and NCP two in the corporation.

The road is named after a former police chief who kept Bombay unaffected during the revolt of 1857 or the first war of Indian independence, unlike the northern parts of the country gripped by violence.

The Congress too supported the unilateral ceasefire demand: “All Opposition parties said about it (ceasefire). We had said it in the previous all-party meeting as well that there should be unilateral ceasefire as happened previously.”

A Dindoshi sessions court on Tuesday discharged a former Shiv Sena corporator from Dahisar, Vinod Ghosalkar, in a case of sexual harassment of a woman corporator from the party.

After he was unable to locate the consulate, he allegedly jumped from the 11th floor of the building at Nariman Point around 11 am on Wednesday.

In a letter submitted to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Wednesday, they demanded that these jobs should be granted without consideration of their educational qualifications.

A TOTAL of 4.35 lakh candidates will take the Common Entrance Test (CET) on Thursday for admissions to engineering and pharmacy colleges in the state, of which 12 have identified themselves as transgender candidates.

The bail petition, filed through her advocates Satyaram Gaud and Kavita Durgapal, stated that the CCTV footage, on which the prosecution built its case, does not show that Khakadiya was present at the scene of crime.

The Mumbai Police Crime Branch has arrested 18 people following a complaint of cheating and forgery filed by a senior editor of The Times of India against a personal assistant.

After a search operation for almost 48 hours, the Mumbai Crime Branch on Wednesday employed two drones to locate the body of Kirti Vyas (27), allegedly disposed of at a nullah near a cinema house in Wadala.

WITH a month left for monsoon to begin, the Western Railway (WR) claims train services would not be disrupted this time if heavy rains hit the city.

A sessions court on Wednesday convicted two persons for the murder of actor Meenakshi Thapa in 2012. The headless body of Meenakshi was found in a water tank in Allahabad nearly a month after the murder.

Police said the incident took place about 4 pm on Monday, when police had rounded up four persons at the chowki for creating ruckus in front of a wine shop. 

Police said the incident took place around 1 pm, when Islauddin Shaikh, a resident of south Mumbai, allegedly rammed into Kalpesh Dharod from Ghatkopar, who was riding a motorcycle, at Dongri.

The accused, Vishal Srivastava, a neighbour of the victims, was convicted by the court on April 12 for murder, house-trespass and robbery, among other charges.

The Palghar bypoll, scheduled on May 28, was necessitated following the death of Chintaman Wanga in January.

“Fadnavis has been deliberately trying to defile the ecological balance of Mumbai. It is extremely unfortunate to happen after the World Health Organisation listed Mumbai as the fourth most polluted metropolitan city in the world,” said Nirupam.