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MSEDCL raises electricity tariffs for all consumers

MUMBAI, Aug. 14 -- Electricity consumers in Mulund, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Kalyan-Dombivli in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and in the rest of Maharashtra will have to pay more for power as the... Read More


Man killed for intervening in Rs.250 bill row

MUMBAI, Aug. 14 -- A 29-year-old man who stepped in to settle a quarrel over a Rs.250 restaurant bill was beaten to death with wooden planks in Goregaon West on Wednesday night. The Goregaon police ar... Read More


Rs.1.3k-cr fake work orders surface ahead of Kumbh

PUNE, Aug. 14 -- In a major scam related to the upcoming Kumbh Mela in Nashik, fraudsters have allegedly issued eight fake work orders worth over Rs.1,349 crore over the past 14 weeks. The first two c... Read More


24-year-old drowns at Kharghar waterfall

NAVI MUMBAI, Aug. 14 -- A 24-year-old man from Panvel drowned while swimming in the pool below Pandavkada waterfall in Kharghar on Thursday afternoon, despite a rescue operation by the CIDCO fire brig... Read More


1999 mayor attack: HC grants 3-month remission to Chhota Shakeel aide

MUMBAI, Aug. 14 -- A Chhota Shakeel aide serving a life sentence for his role in the 1999 attack on former Mumbai mayor Milind Vaidya, in which three people were killed, has been granted a three-month... Read More


66 ha of Palghar forests to make way for Vadhvan Port

PALGHAR, Aug. 14 -- The talukas of Dahanu and Palghar are likely to lose 66.63 hectares (164.6 acres) of forest land in Gargao and Khanivade villages. The Jawaharlal Nehru Ports Authority (JNPA), whic... Read More


Vashi APMC plans major revamp, digital payment shift

Navi Mumbai, Aug. 14 -- The ageing Vashi APMC could soon look very different, with authorities planning a decision on the fate of its long-troubled onion-potato market within two months and a gradual ... Read More


6 booked for power theft in GB Nagar

NOIDA, Aug. 14 -- Electricity theft inspections conducted across parts of the Gautam Budh Nagar district have uncovered six incidents of power theft, including one in which a consumer allegedly bypass... Read More


Bhumi visits Assam; says, 'How does one begin to rebuild a life?'

India, Aug. 14 -- A ctor Bhumi Satish Pednekkar, who was in flood-hit Assam from August 6 to 9, says witnessing the devastation first-hand was very different from seeing it online. She joined the Bhar... Read More


Do you know what's a 'Time Bank'?

India, Aug. 14 -- A video from Sonepat, Haryana, recently went viral showing the funeral pyre of an elderly man burning, while his three daughters were absent. The final rites were performed by the ol... Read More