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Open manhole swallows up 55-yr-old man

MUMBAI, July 3 -- Saki Naka resident Aslam Esaf Shaikh, 55, died after falling into an open sewer minutes after he left home for work on Thursday afternoon. The mouth of the sewer on Khairani Road was... Read More


Speaker seeks homicide charges against officials in manhole death

MUMBAI, July 3 -- Maharashtra assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar on Thursday termed the fatal open manhole incident "extremely serious", saying negligence by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) ... Read More


Rs.10L won't bring him back: Brother

MUMBAI, July 3 -- "Why don't tragedies like this happen to politicians? Why do only the poor have to deal with them," Shaista Shaikh asked mayor Ritu Tawde at Rajawadi Hospital, where Aslam Shaikh's b... Read More


HC orders review of lapses in tree de-concretisation

MUMBAI, July 3 -- The Bombay high court (HC) on Tuesday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to consider the survey report filed by an intervenor in March 2025, alleging that the civi... Read More


Three Elgar accused oppose NIA's plea to cancel their bail

MUMBAI, July 3 -- Three accused in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case on Thursday opposed the National Investigation Agency (NIA)'s plea seeking cancellation of their bail. They told a special cou... Read More


HC: Citizens are not slaves of central govt

MUMBAI, July 3 -- The Bombay High Court (HC) on Thursday quashed the externment of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) state general secretary Saeed Ahmad Abdul Wahid Chaudhary, observing that peo... Read More


HC backs cluster redevelopment in Adarsh Nagar, Reclamation

Mumbai, July 3 -- The Bombay High Court on Thursday paved the way for the cluster redevelopment of two of the city's largest Mhada layouts, at Bandra Reclamation and Adarsh Nagar in Worli, rejecting a... Read More


'BJP wants to crush the voice of Maharashtra through defections'

MUMBAI, July 3 -- Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray, whose party suffered a body blow with the defection of six Members of Parliament to the ruling Shiv Sena, alleges that the BJP wants to shor... Read More


Pregnant woman dies after injection

Navi Mumbai, July 3 -- A 23-year-old pregnant woman died along with her unborn child while another expectant mother remains critical after the two developed complications following injections administ... Read More


CM orders stay on controversial new RTI rules

Mumbai, July 3 -- Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has ordered a stay on the Maharashtra government's controversial decision to amend the rules governing the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the stat... Read More