At least 31 persons were arrested and four women were rescued during a raid at a dance bar in suburban Kalina area here, police said on Thursday.

Five years after a Bhandup youth stabbed his girlfriend for refusing to marry him, a sessions court sentenced him to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for attempt to murder. The court also found the now 31-year-old accused, Aakash Pande, guilty of attempting suicide and sentenced him to one year's imprisonment on that count. The accused had stabbed himself after attacking the woman.

Humiliated by a female co-worker's taunting, a 21-year-old man working as a housekeeper at a Goregaon high-rise murdered her in the staff washroom. Vikas Khairnar, the accused, packed the body in a plastic sack (which he put in two more) and took it in an auto and then on a local train, before dumping it on tracks in broad daylight. The GRP nabbed Khairnar within 14 hours of finding the body.

Enforcement Dir-ectorate (ED) is investigating a Dubai company owned by former Shiv Sena corporator Yashwant Jadhav's family which was formed in 2018, the same year he became chairman of BMC standing committee, for allegedly violating Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) rules. Around Rs 5 crore was deposited in the company's account in Dubai, half of which was in cash, during the pandemic.

The BJP protest on the OBC quota issue on Wednesday took a controversial turn with state party president Chandrakant Patil lashing out at three-term NCP MP Supriya Sule, saying she should leave politics and head for the kitchen. Why are you in politics? You should go home and cook. It's time for you to go home, he said in response to comments made by her earlier in the day.

While giving a 66-year-old man time to obtain a stay on a tribunal order to vacate his 84-year-old mothers flat in Andheri (West), Bombay high court directed that if he fails to do so, the police and the collector will have him removed from it.

The police on Tuesday arrested Jayant Kolkhekar, a resident of Adai village in Panvel, for allegedly killing Reshma Sachin Garude, assistant commissioner of police (crime) Vinayak Vast said.

The air intelligence unit (AIU) of customs has seized US dollars valued at around Rs 12 crore from three Sudanese nationals, an official said on Wednesday.

The Government Railway Police (GRP) in Mumbai cracked a murder case in less than 14 hours, with the arrest of a 21-year-old man who allegedly killed a woman, stuffed her body in large plastic bags before dumping it on the railway tracks here, police said.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned former Shiv Sena corporator and ex-chairman of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)s standing committee Yashwant Jadhav in a case they are investigating for the violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) rule.

A day after the State Election Commission (SEC) ordered the reservation lottery for polls in 14 municipal corporations, home minister Dilip Walse Patil said on Tuesday that before the actual election process begins the MVA government will secure the reservation for OBCs in civic bodies.

A woman in her mid-twenties was found murdered and her body dumped in a white sack on the tracks at Mahim railway station on Tuesday. Police said her identity had not been established. Her throat had been slit and there were four stabbing injuries on her stomach. A case of murder has been registered by the police.

Bombay high court confirmed an order of the RERA (Real Estate Regulation and Development Act) appellate tribunal directing a builder to first deposit 100% of the interest to be paid to buyers for delay in handing over flats at a project called Wintergreen in Borivali, as a pre-condition to hearing its appeal.

For the first time in almost two months, the number of Covid patients needing hospitalisation in Mumbai rose to 17 on Tuesday, as against less than 10 on most days in April.

The number of private cars in Mumbai has touched 12 lakh, resulting in the citys car density, already highest in the country, rising to 600 per km of road. Besides, there are another 1.5 lakh cars operating as taxis and cabs.

A lone passenger travelling in a reserved coach for physically challenged of an outstation mail express train from Goa was attacked by a knife-wielding mugger who decamped after stealing his mobile and valuables near Diva station, the railway police informed on Tuesday.

The BEST said Tata Motors petition is not maintainable in law as it was declared echnically non-responsive on May 6 and hence has no right to be heard or question the tender process, on interpretation of its terms and conditions.

Fadnavis accused the MVA government of losing OBC reservation due to their failure to prepare the report on OBCs in the state. Fadnavis said that it was someones design and conspiracy in the state government to remove OBC reservation. He was speaking at the BJPs state executive meeting on Tuesday.

The suspect, identified as Junaid, a resident of Pune, was connected to the LeT's terror network through social media, the official said.

The victim reached her house and narrated the incident to her parents, following which a complaint was lodged with the police, the official said, adding that the accused has been working at the school for the last 30 years.

An analysis of taxes on petrol and diesel shows that the state taxes (VAT and surcharge/cess) are higher than the central tax (excise duty) by up to 1.5 times.

In a case involving alleged disproportionate assets, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Thane has seized documents from former BJP MLA Narendra Mehta's residences and offices pertaining to properties, cars and jewellery, sources said.

A Malwani-based couple has been arrested by the police on charges of kidnapping, more than a month after their niece went missing. Police is still investigating the case to establish the whereabouts of the girl.

While the city registered a slight dip in Covid cases on Monday, the Government Law College (GLC) administration made masks and sanitisers mandatory on the premises after three female law students tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

In the biggest ever order in Indian electric mobility history, BEST has awarded a Rs 3,675-crore contract to Hyderabad-based Olectra Greentech for supply of 2,100 electric buses over a period of 12 months.

The civic body has prepared a 28-bed ward at Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Chinchpokli, to isolate suspected cases of monkeypox, a viral zoonotic disease that is spreading around the world.

After petrol and diesel, it is the common tomato that has broken the 100-rupee barrier. The retail price of a staple unit of 1 kg crossed a century in Pali Market Bandra, Matunga, Mulund and Byculla as well as in online stores.

CBI took custody of four alleged conspirators of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts from the Gujarat anti-terrorist squad (ATS) and produced them before a special court in the city on Monday. The court remanded the four to seven days CBI custody.

In a major push for green mobility, the BEST undertaking has finalised bids of Olectra green tech to supply 2,100 electric buses over a period of 12 months.

The Manpada police in Dombivli have busted a gang who duped a developer of over Rs 2 crore by stealing steels used for building construction.

Two chain snatchers wanted in multiple cases were arrested by the Manpada police in Dombivli.

A 61-year-old man fell unconscious while having sexual intercourse with his partner in a hotel here on Monday morning and was later declared dead at a hospital, a police official said.

Two persons were arrested for allegedly cheating a man from Kharigaon-Kalwa in Thane district of Rs 10 lakh after promising him a lucrative money exchange scheme, a police official said on Monday.

BJP leader Kirit Somaiyas wife Medha on Monday moved Bombay high court with a defamation suit against Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut seeking Rs 100 crore damages and also to permanently restrain him from making or publishing statements against her and her family.

Nurses have started an agitation across Maharashtra against privatisation and outsourcing of positions.

With allegations of cost escalation, rigging of bids and cartelisation coming to the fore, the BMC has scrapped tenders for its Rs 160-crore tunnel laundry project citing land shortage.

City police chief Sanjay Pandey on Sunday reprimanded his personnel for not behaving well with citizens at police stations. The admonishment, which came during a Facebook Live session, was the result of complaints about behaviour of policemen.

In what is believed to be a first for a local police station, a team from the Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar commissionerate has landed in Prague in Czech Republic, to extradite one of two men accused of murdering a US-based model 19 years ago.

A teenaged schoolboy who had penned a goodbye note and left his Goregaon home after an argument with his mother was rescued near a lake at Aarey Colony by policemen on Friday. The 15-year-old had already attempted to drown himself once, police said.

The Shiv Sena on Sunday slammed MNS chief Raj Thackeray for deferring his Ayodhya visit. After Raj claimed that a trap was being set up to file cases against MNS workers, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut asked who would have filed cases against the MNS workers during the Ayodhya tour when it was a BJP sponsored tour. Raut also said that the Sena doesn't need to learn Hindutva from Raj Thackeray adding that one doesnt become pro-Hindutva just by wearing a saffron shawl.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday slammed MNS chief Raj Thackeray's claim that he had deferred his visit to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh as there was ploy to rap his party workers into legal issues, and said such comments were made out of frustration.

Public Prosecutor Sanjay More said the duo and one more person had entered a luxury bus on the night of December 5, 2014 and robbed passengers, including a patrolling police team travelling in the vehicle in mufti.

Rejecting the reply submitted by MLA Ravi Rana and his Amravati MP wife Navneet Rana about alleged irregularities in their Khar flat, the BMC on Friday passed a speaking order stating that the unauthorised works pointed out by it should be removed in seven days, failing which it would initiate action.

When Covid-19- the newest public health emergency-hit Mumbai, the BMC did more than roping in contract doctors, buying medicines and setting up field hospitals. It used the modern medical tool of artificial intelligence (AI) to track the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Soon, Mulund resident Laxmi Jadhav (41) will have the distinction of becoming the first woman driver to operate a BEST bus ever since the transport body commenced operations 96 years ago in 1926.

Sanpada police have arrested a 40-year-old man from Nerul for allegedly sexually assaulting a 34-year-old woman, owner of a massage parlour in Sanpada, for the past three years by posing as a policeman.

State cabinet minister Jitendra Awhad has reacted to a news article published in TOI about 400 trees slated to be cut for the upcoming Vashi-Kopri flyover project, and tweeted on Saturday that he strongly objects to the tree slaughter, as it is bad for the environment.