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BEST to crack down after 30k power thefts since 1993

Mumbai, Oct. 13 -- Nearly half of the 30,932 power theft cases detected by the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking over the past 33 years have come from just two civic wards-... Read More


BMC moots 52% hike in SCLR repair contract

Mumbai, Oct. 13 -- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed to hike the contract value for structural repairs on three flyovers along the Santacruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) by a whopp... Read More


'Bogus doc mopped up Rs.200 cr via CSR, duped 40 PSUs, banks'

MUMBAI, Oct. 13 -- At a special health camp for people associated with the film industry, held in Andheri (West) on January 18, the DRVA Charitable Trust claimed to have "served 56,000 patients" and s... Read More


25-day-old boy rescued from kidnappers

THANE, Oct. 13 -- The Ambernath police arrested five people, including the alleged kidnapper of a 25-day-old infant, within four hours of the crime on Monday and rescued the baby safely. Investigators... Read More


Home guard, aide held for cheating woman of Rs.16L

NAVI MUMBAI, Oct. 13 -- A 30-year-old home guard and his associate have been arrested for allegedly cheating a woman of over Rs.16 lakh after he befriended her through a matrimonial website, police sa... Read More


Nandurbar teacher held for MPSC paper leak

MUMBAI, Oct. 13 -- Mayur Thakare, a 40-year-old school teacher from Nandurbar, has been arrested for his alleged role in leaking the MPSC question paper for the post of drug inspector earlier this yea... Read More


No safety belts at 48th floor: Two labourers fall to death

MUMBAI, Oct. 13 -- Working on the 48th floor of an under-construction building without safety belts, two labourers plunged to their deaths after a wire supporting their work cradle snapped at a Nahur ... Read More


MNS and Sena (UBT) protest against CEC

MUMBAI, Oct. 13 -- While opposition parties in Delhi conducted a rally to the Supreme Court, the opposition Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS staged protests in Mumbai seeking the removal of Chief Election Comm... Read More


Amid drought, state expands water-guzzling data centres

MUMBAI, Oct. 13 -- The Maharashtra government has approved 12 new data centre projects across the state, taking the number of operational and proposed facilities to 32. The 12 projects, for which lett... Read More


Day after leading sit-in, Aaditya and Amit Thackeray booked

Mumbai, Oct. 13 -- Police booked Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)'s Amit Thackeray on Monday, a day after they led a sit-in demanding chief election commis... Read More