Mumbai | Mumbai Police have arrested a 23-year-old youth for marrying a minor girl after allegedly tampering with her real date of birth on her Aadhaar card to prove she is a major, officials said here on Thursday. The fraud came to light after the youth and the girl got married on April 11 at the […]
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Chaos in Mumbai Airport as systems network crashes, Metro digging blamed
Mumbai | Chaos prevailed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) here after a computer systems failure hit check-ins and other operations of all airlines, sources said on Thursday. The ‘culprit’ is allegedly the ongoing digging work for a Mumbai Metro line in the CSMIA vicinity that reportedly snapped a main cable of a major […]
Mumbai: 132-year-old British-era tunnel discovered in Sir J.J. Hospital campus
Mumbai | A buried chapter in history was literally dug up when a 132-year-old tunnel constructed during the British era was discovered at the state government-run Sir J.J. Hospital grounds, officials said here on Friday. The tunnel, measuring around 200 metres long, has a date mentioned on the foundation stone ‘1890’ and was accidentally found by […]
Mumbai man gets 18 months jail for calling minor girl ‘item’
Mumbai | A special court has convicted a businessman for outraging the modesty and sexual harassment of a minor girl by calling her an “item”. The Dindoshi Special POCSO court judge S.J. Ansari sentenced Abrar N. Khan, a resident of Andheri east, to one and a half years imprisonment for the offence committed in 2015. The […]
Prominent Mumbai realtor jumps to death from 23rd floor home
Mumbai | A well-known realtor Paras S. Porwal jumped to his death from his 23rd floor flat at a Byculla tower in south Mumbai, police said here on Thursday. Porwal, in his 50s, was associated with various companies, including Rajyog Developers Ltd., and had completed several commercial and residential projects in the city and suburbs. The […]
Mumbai Dassehra tragedy: 5 men killed in 5 vehicles crash on Sea Link
Mumbai | In a shocking tragedy on Dassehra, five men were killed in a major road crash involving an ambulance and four cars speeding on the Bandra Worli Sea Link, early on Wednesday morning, the BMC Disaster Cell said. According to the BMC officials, the accident took place around 2.15 hours on the southern (Worli side) […]
Big catch: Heroin valued at Rs 1,725 cr seized from Mumbai port, 2 Afghans held
New Delhi | Delhi Police’s Special Cell has made one of the biggest seizures of heroin from Mumbai, with the contraband valued at Rs 1,725 crore in the international market, and arrested two Afghan nationals in this connection, a senior police official said Wednesday. The accused were identified as Mustafa Stanikzai and Rahimullah Rahimi. Delhi […]
MNS men seen abusing, assaulting elderly woman shopkeeper; 3 detained
Mumbai | A group of activists allegedly belonging to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) abused and assaulted an elderly woman when she objected to their putting up a Ganeshotsav advertising banner outside her shop here without her permission and three of them were detained on Thursday. Apparently irked over her blatant refusal, the MNS activists led by […]
Fire guts film set in Mumbai’s Andheri west, 1 dead
Mumbai | One person was killed when a massive fire engulfed an open air film studio set near the Andheri Sports Complex on Friday, BMC Disaster Control said. The blaze was noticed around 4.30 p.m. in the Chitrakoot Studio, spread across over 5,000 square feet where 2 decorative film shooting sets were erected, and thick clouds […]
61-year-old man dies during sex with partner in Mumbai hotel
A man in his 60s fell unconscious while having sex with his partner in a hotel in Mumbai’s Kurla. He was declared ‘brought dead’ at arrival by the doctors at the local hospital. The incident took place on Monday morning. According to a report in Times Of India, the cause of the death was not […]