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Mumbai: While the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Expressway is now fully operational, a crucial extension of the Mumbai-Nashik Highway from four to eight lanes over a 23-km stretch between Magathane and Vadpe remains incomplete — even after more than four years of work. The project, whose revised deadline was Feb 2025, continues to be behind schedule.The widening…

Mumbai: A magistrate’s court recently acquitted a 36-year-old hospital cleaner in a voyeurism case almost six years after he was accused of filming a senior resident doctor changing in a ladies room. The court noted the significant height difference between the accused, who is 5.5-foot tall, and the 10-ft high partition wall of the changing…

Mumbai: In a move to enhance transparency and protect homebuyers, Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRera) registration certificates will now provide comprehensive details of the real estate projects.Previously, the registration certificates only listed the project name, address, and promoter details, along with the conditions that the developer had to comply with for registration. Now, they…

Mumbai: Patchwork repairs on the newly concretised Holy Cross Road in Dahisar triggered public outrage on Thursday, with former BMC Congress corporator Sheetal Mhatre slamming the civic body for masking, rather than fixing construction flaws.Under phase one of the concretisation project of Mumbai roads, Holy Cross Road was taken up for repairs. Barely a few…

Mumbai: A man who was getting off a train from the wrong side, trying to slip in between two iron bars alongside the tracks died after his neck got wedged between two vertical iron bars at Mumbai Central railway station, a little after 9.30 am on Wednesday. He was left dangling between two bars of…

MUMBAI: A 27-year-old man died after his neck got entangled in an iron fence while attempting to alight from a train on the wrong side at Mumbai Central station on Wednesday morning.The incident took place around 9.44am at Platform No. 4. The deceased, identified through his Aadhaar card as Dhila Rajesh Hamira Bhai, was found…

ULHASNAGAR: On the occasion of World Environment Day today, the first Waste Management Bio Gas Plant in Ulhasnagar city was unveiled by the city’s BJP MLA, Kumar Ailani, and BJP Ulhasnagar District President, Rajesh Vadhrya.This bio gas plant was built by the developer in a private Regency Antilia complex. The waste from hundreds of flat…

MUMBAI: Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Interior and Chairman of the Supreme Haj Committee, reportedly attended the Ministry of Interior’s annual ceremony of the security forces participating in the Haj season. Lakhs of Muslim pilgrims from across the world are currently in Saudi Arabia for the annual Haj being currently…

MUMBAI: In a move poised to reshape the global gem trade, the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has announced it will no longer apply the 4Cs grading system-cut, colour, clarity, and carat weight-to laboratory-grown diamonds. Instead, beginning from later this year, GIA will issue simplified descriptors for such stones-broadly classifying them as ‘premium’ or ‘standard’-…

NEW DELHI: A row has erupted in Mumbai over the naming of three newly hatched penguin chicks at the city’s Byculla zoo with BJP leaders demanding they be given Marathi names instead of English ones. The protest, led by BJP functionary Nitin Bankar from the Byculla assembly constituency, took place outside the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale…