Mumbai News

Abdul Sattar, the two-term member of legislative assembly (MLA), was suspended by the Congress in April for anti-party activities.

While elevated lines cost less than a third of an underground network, savings in traffic congestion, pollution and maintenance make an underground system cheaper in the long run

In the first case, Chembur police arrested a 26-year-old man for allegedly molesting a woman while she was boarding a BEST bus on Saturday.

After the complainant’s sister died on Wednesday, the state women’s commission met police commissioner Sanjay Barve on Saturday and demanded that a complaint be lodged against the officers responsible for threatening the alleged victim’s family.

The decision was taken in a review meeting chaired by Piyush Goyal, with officials from the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC), Konkan Railway, Indian Rail Catering Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) and Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL)

According Flightradar24, a Swedish internet-based service that shows real-time commercial aircraft flight information on a map, departure flights (317) were delayed for around twenty minutes, while arrival flights (71) were delayed for over five minutes.

Owing to continuous showers, Mumbai witnessed cool conditions on Sunday. The maximum temperature fell to 27 degrees Celsius, 3 degrees Celsius below normal, at south Mumbai and to 27.2 degrees Celsius, 2.7 degree Celsius below normal, in the suburbs.

An MSRTC spokesperson said, “The fire occurred due to a short-circuit. On noticing fumes coming out of the bonnet, the driver tried to douse the fire with an extinguisher. The passengers were immediately evacuated.”

When the second fast local train was approaching, the vegetable vendor who was working beside the railway track reportedly waved an umbrella on spotting the rail fracture and alerted the motorman to halt the train. The motorman and the guard successfully halted the train seconds before the rail fracture spot.

Bandra’s RD National College held a national colloquium – Institutional Social Responsibility for a Greener Campus – on Saturday, to spread the message of sustainability and green campus beyond institute.

In the four-day tour from Thursday till Sunday, the team visited eight districts such as Sangli, Kolhapur, Satara, Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Raigad, Palghar and Thane that were affected with floods last month.

Chairman of the Maharashtra Purse Seine Fishing Welfare Association, an angling body focusing on reducing juvenile overfishing, Nakhawa and his team have been spreading awareness about 40 protected marine species found along the Maharashtra coast among resident fishing boat skippers and their crew.

Experts within and outside the institutes are attributing this positive change to various reasons, including the introduction of supernumerary seats for women students as well as fee waivers by some IITs across the country.

According to Mumbai police PRO, the state police have around 1 lakh 62 thousand domestic mandals and over eleven thousand Gauri Ganpati mandals. There are 129 spots for emersion in the city and the city police is all geared up for adequate security arrangements during the festivities.