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NAVI MUMBAI: An unidentified assailant opened fire at two individuals in Airoli late Monday night, leaving RTI activist Amit Maurya critically injured, police said. The attacker remains at large, and police have yet to establish a motive. The incident occurred around 11:45 pm at Chhatrapati Rahivasi Sangh, where Maurya was meeting his friend, contractor Sandeep Gawas, who was overseeing construction work in the area. According to Rabale police, the attacker arrived on a motorcycle and fired fo ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Alleged land mafia kingpin Surendra Pratap Singh aka Randha has been arrested by the Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar (MBVV) police crime branch on charges of encroaching upon 2.10 acres of private land in Vasai and defrauding unsuspecting home buyers by selling them flats in illegally constructed buildings on the plot. Singh was arrested on Monday night by a team attached to unit 4 of the MBVV crime branch based on technical intelligence and investigation. He was produced before the Vasai co ...Read More >
Mumbai: A major fire broke out on April 6 near Bajrangi Chowk in Juhu Koliwada, leaving one person injured. Visuals showed dramatic firefighting operations as the fire reportedly took place in the narrow lanes. Visuals also showed thick black billowing from the area. Currently, the cause of the fire is unknown. A video of the incident was shared by Bandra Buzz on Instagram. The visuals showed the fire occurred near a chawl in Juhu Koliwada, as the footage showed fire engines stationed on the ro ...Read More >
The Mumbra police in Thane arrested a 51-year-old man for allegedly firing three rounds from a country-made revolver, killing one man and injuring two others Thursday. The accused, identified as Jayan Shivanandan Nair, told the police that he opened fire on them since they had been stalking a woman he considered his sister. The shooting victims, identified as Abdul Shaikh, Akbar Ahmad and Sameer Shaikh, were rushed to the Kalsekar Hospital, where Akbar was declared dead. The police arrested Nai ...Read More >
Mumbai, April 2: Cracking the whip on delays in the long-stalled Siddharth Nagar (Patra Chawl) redevelopment, the Bombay High Court on Thursday made it clear that pending disputes cannot come in the way of flat handover. The court has directed residents to take possession of their rehabilitation tenements while clarifying that key issues are resolved separately by authorities. Court hears plea on stalled redevelopment A bench of Justices Girish Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe was hearing a petition ...Read More >
Thane: Tensions gripped the Mumbra locality of Thane on Thursday morning after a shooting incident left one man dead and two others severely injured. The Mumbra police have successfully apprehended the primary suspect, identified as 51-year-old Jayan Shivanandan Nair. The Incident The shooting occurred on Thursday morning at Bismillah Chawl, located near the Suman Tai Chavan Hindi Primary School in the Kailash Nagar area of Mumbra. According to police reports, the violence stemmed from a perso ...Read More >
Thane: In an unexpected turn of events, a violent shooting incident took place in the Mumbra area of Thane. In this one man died and two other were seriously injured. Following the firing incident, a 51-year-old former Army personnel was taken into custody on Thursday, April 2nd 2026. According to FPJ reports, incident occurred at the approximately 11:30 AM near Sumantai Chavan Hindi Primary School in the Kailash Nagar locality, Mumbra bypass Jayan Shivanandan Nair allegedly shot at a group of ...Read More >
Thane, Apr 2 (PTI) One person died and two others were injured after a man fired at them for allegedly teasing a woman, whom he considered as his sister, in Maharashtra's Thane city on Thursday, police said. The incident occurred at 11.30 am at Bismillah Chawl in Kailas Nagar area of Mumbra, they said, adding that the shooter was later arrested and a revolver was recovered from him. "Accused Jayan Shivanandan Nair, 51, was angry with the deceased and his aides for teasing a woman, whom he cons ...Read More >
BMC officials said the blaze was controlled before it spread across the colony with the fire extinguished by 4.35 am. A teenager died while three others were injured after a fire broke out at a chawl in south Mumbai in the early hours of Monday. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the fire was reported around 4.15 am in a chawl at Macchimaar Nagar along the Captain Prakash Pethe Marg. The fire, locals said, broke out much earlier inside a one-plus-one storey chawl struct ...Read More >
Mumbai police picked up the trail of the accused, Chandrashekhar Kalekar, after scanning voters' lists and other records, and also used human intelligence to trace him in Dapoli taluka on Tuesday morning, a Mumbai Police official said on Wednesday. Criminals may be adept at faking identities, but police are masters of busting deceptions, which was evident when they traced and arrested a 71-year-old man wanted in an attempt to murder case, after 48 years, who was living as a recluse in a coastal ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 17 (ANI): As the lamps of Diwali flicker across India this year, from the tribal heartlands of Odisha to the sandy villages of Rajasthan and the chawls of Pune, some families are celebrating a new kind of Lakshmi Puja, one not marked by gold coins or rituals, but by pride and tears of joy. Their daughters, once told that sports were no place for women, have become symbols of fortune and empowerment through the game of Kho Kho. These young women - Magai Majhi from Odis ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 17 (ANI): As the lamps of Diwali flicker across India this year, from the tribal heartlands of Odisha to the sandy villages of Rajasthan and the chawls of Pune, some families are celebrating a new kind of Lakshmi Puja, one not marked by gold coins or rituals, but by pride and tears of joy. Their daughters, once told that sports were no place for women, have become symbols of fortune and empowerment through the game of Kho Kho. These young women - Magai Majhi from Odis ...Read More >
Pune: A shocking case of crime has came to light were, son allegedly stabbing his elderly father to death over a minor dispute. Incident took place in Jayabhavani Nagar area of Kothrud. Police arrested the son in this case. Deceased identified as Tanaji Paygude, resident of Jayabhavani Nagar, Paud Road, Kothrud. His 33-years-old son Sachin Tanaji Paygudewas arrested in this case. Tanaji's wife Suman has filed a complaint in this regard at the Kothrud police station. According to police reports, ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Shivani Gandhi, the owner of Shivani Catering Services, who was among the seven inside her workplace at Kandivali East when it caught fire due to a gas leak last week, succumbed to her injuries on Monday. Having sustained 90% burns, Gandhi, 51, who was swinging between life and death for over a week at the National Burns Centre (NBC) in Airoli, is the fifth casualty. Gandhi had been running her catering services for more than 12 years. Her business was doing well enough that she foresaw ...Read More >
According to residents and eyewitnesses, the cloud kitchen had seven employees -- six women who were ancillary workers and a man who was the head cook. A fire broke out at a cloud kitchen in the densely populated Akurli area at Mumbai's Kandivali (east) on Wednesday morning, grievously injuring seven people. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) disaster management cell, the fire broke out around 9.05am at a shop located on the ground floor of a two-storey structure. Acc ...Read More >
MUMBAI: A day after seven people sustained severe burns in a fire that broke out in a small catering unit at Akurli in Kandivali east, the Mumbai Fire Brigade is set to inspect another unit of the same catering service, Shivani Catering Services, in Ashok Nagar, also in Kandivali. The move follows an LPG cylinder leak that triggered an explosion at the Ram Kisan Mestri Chawl, where the all-women catering service operated. "We don't give a fire NOC to operate commercially in chawls, so we have a ...Read More >
MUMBAI: A special court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on Monday ordered the issuance of process against builder Pravin Raut -- a close aide of Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut and partner in M/s Prathamesh Developers LLP -- and Jitendra Mehta, proprietor of Mehta Developers, in the ₹1,039-crore Patra Chawl redevelopment scam. Issuance of process is a formal step by which a court summons or directs the presence of the accused, marking the commencement of criminal proceedings ...Read More >
Mumbai: The 112-year-old Elphinstone Road Road Over Bridge (ROB) in Prabhadevi, closed to traffic on Sep 12, will be rebuilt with a modern double-decker design by January 2027. The Maharashtra Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation (MRIDC/MahaRail), on behalf of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), will dismantle the ageing structure and construct a replacement that simultaneously spans both Central and Western Railway tracks.The Elphinstone ROB, built in 1913, was ...Read More >
New Delhi: The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki has announced the rollout of its first made-in-India electric vehicle - the e-Vitara SUV - in a major boost to the green segment from its upgraded Gujarat plant, which is now set to become one of the world's largest automotive manufacturing hubs with a projected annual capacity of one million units. Crucially, this facility will serve as Suzuki's global production base for electric vehicles (EVs), exporting to over 100 countries, including ...Read More >
Mumbai, Aug 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) The death toll in the Virar building collapse in Maharashtra has risen to 17, officials confirmed on Thursday, as search and rescue efforts entered the second day. The tragic incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday when the rear portion of the Ramabai Apartment building suddenly caved in at around 12.05 A.M., trapping several residents under the rubble. President Droupadi Murmu expressed sorrow over the loss of lives, stating, "The collapse of a buildi ...Read More >
VMPL New Delhi [India], August 14: Ellenox, India's largest venture studio, is accelerating its global push in enterprise AI development. In the past year, the company has grown its headcount by 50% over the last year, bringing in senior AI talent from Amazon and Google to power its next phase of expansion. Already delivering AI transformation for Fortune 50 leaders in fintech, cloud computing, consumer social, and sports-tech, Ellenox has built systems that replace costly call centers with na ...Read More >
The key distribution ceremony of the first batch took place in Mumbai in the presence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar, and other ministers. Around 556 families got possession of their new houses under the BDD Chawl Redevelopment Project in Worli on Thursday. The key distribution ceremony took place in Mumbai in the presence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar, and other ministers and to ...Read More >
Mumbai, Aug 14 (PTI) As over 550 families got possession of their new flats under the BDD chawl redevelopment project in Worli, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday urged them not to sell their properties and preserve them as "gold" to be passed on to the next generation. Speaking at an event after handing over keys of new homes to 556 eligible residents, Fadnavis noted BDD (Bombay Development Directorate) chawls (buildings divided into small rooms) were not just low-cost ho ...Read More >
Based on eyewitness accounts, Mumbai Fire Brigade officials suspect that a cylinder blast could have triggered the collapse. At least seven people were injured and several others are feared trapped under the debris after a portion of a ground-plus-three-storey structure in Mumbai's Bandra (East) collapsed early on Friday. According to the police, the chawl collapsed around 6 am in the Bharat Nagar area. Officials from the disaster cell said that rescue operations are currently underway. "Base ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has started deactivating the Aadhaar card of the dead to prevent their misuse. UIDAI has deactivated more than 1.17 crore 12-digit Aadhaar numbers so far. This information was given in an official statement issued on Wednesday, July 16. Under this initiative, UIDAI has started a new service on My Aadhaar portal for registered deaths in 24 states and union territories, so that people can report the death of their family members. The ...Read More >
Mumbai: A total of 15 people residing in a ground plus two-storey chawl in Bharat Nagar slum, Bandra East were injured after the top floor structure collapsed on Friday early morning. The injured include eight males, including a minor and seven females. Two victims suffered severe burn injuries and are in critical condition. The structure collapsed following cylinder blast, which resulted after a flash fire due to gas leakage. As per the preliminary information, the top two floor were temporary ...Read More >
Jhargram, Jul 18 (PTI) Three elephants, including two calves, were run over by an express train near Banstala railway station in West Bengal's Paschim Midnapore district, police said on Friday. The incident, which took place on Thursday night, occurred when an elephant herd that probably came from Jharkhand's Dalma forest was traversing, they said. The three pachyderms were mowed on the tracks by a speeding Janshatabdi Express on the Kharagpur-Tatanagar section, a police officer said. It was ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 18 (ANI): A local of Mumbai Bharat Nagar and witness of the chawl collapse that took place on Friday, leaving seven people trapped, stated that the reason for the blast was not confirmed. While speaking to ANI, the local stated that the collapse also caused damage to the mosque located next to the chawl. The reason for the blast is not confirmed... The incident happened near the mosque and caused damage to the mosque as well... The fire brigade is conducting ...Read More >
Bengaluru: After Delhi, nearly 40 schools in Bengaluru received bomb threats via e-mail on Friday morning, leading to panic among students, teachers and parents. Police teams have rushed to all locations and search operations are underway. Schools in R R Nagar and Kengeri were among those targeted, the police said. Cyber experts are making all efforts to trace the sender of the mail. Sources revealed that the sender could be suffering from mental health issues. In the mail, he has spoken about ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 18 (ANI): A local of Mumbai's Bharat Nagar and witness of the chawl collapse that took place on Friday, leaving seven people trapped, stated that the reason for the blast was not confirmed. While speaking to ANI, the local stated that the collapse also caused damage to the mosque located next to the chawl. Also Read | Sadhvi Prem Baisa Viral Video With Veerampuri Maharaj Controversy: Female Saint Vows To Undergo 'Agni Pariksha', Calls 'Obscene' Clip Conspirac ...Read More >
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