Mumbai News

Sameer Wankhede, Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), along with his seniors in the bureau, on Monday met Maharashtra director-general of police Sanjay Pandey and complained that some people were following him since the past few days.

While many criticised the coalition for inconveniencing common citizens, some lauded the allies for taking a stand against the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in which farmers were mowed down

The Bombay high court recently rejected the petition filed by a 27-year-old architect and resident of South Mumbai wherein he had sought quashing of the proceedings arising out of an FIR against him.

The anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Monday searched the DN Nagar (Andheri) house of assistant police commissioner Suajata Patil, recently arrested for accepting bribe.

With the improvement in the coal supply in the last couple of days, Maharashtra authorities expect the situation to regularise by bridging the demand-supply gap by the end of the week.

The impact was seen in most in parts of central Mumbai, where markets of Dadar and Matunga were closed, and all shops in Worli, Parel, Lower Parel and Mahim had downed their shutters

By enforcing the Maharashtra bandh together, the three MVA parties have put up a united face, which could help them in forthcoming local body elections

NCB’s zonal director Sameer Wankhede has reportedly alleged that he was being spied upon.

The Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA), a three-party coalition of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, enforced a Maharashtra bandh (statewide shutdown), which they termed a 100% success, on Monday, protesting the killing of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh

The Naya Nagar police on Monday booked Rinku Sangoi Dedhia and Rahul Dedhia for allegedly refusing to sell a 1-BHK flat in Shantinagar in Mira Road to Govardhan Deshmukh, 37, allegedly because the latter was a Marathi-speaking man and the four-storey building was exclusively for Gujaratis, Marwaris and Jains.

The alleged murder occurred at the couple’s home in Kalher area of Bhiwandi; the brother saw his brother-in-law beating up his sister and tried to stop him; Police arrest both siblings

An investigating officer says that the village, Ghoti, has its own gossip about all of its residents; accused Sheikh and his friends were allegedly infamous as drug addicts and good-for-nothings and several villagers identified his co-accused in the train dacoity and sexual assault case

Hundreds of protestors across Thane district detained for vandalising property during the Statewide bandh on Monday; protestors were detained in Thane for vandalising auto rickshaws, stopping them from plying in Kalyan

The Shiv Sena on Monday displayed its dominance and control over Mumbai by enforcing a near-complete bandh (strike) to protest the killings of the farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri

The cat, Mishti, was unable to jump back on the terrace after falling off the gap between the window grills on the parapet of the high-rise; Thane fire brigade and disaster management officials rescued the feline

The cat, barely 18 months old, was unable to jump back on the terrace after falling off the gap between window grills on the parapet

The bandh was called to protest the killing of four farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3

Thane police officials said it rescued 17 girls from Chandni Bar in the city and sent them to a rehabilitation centre

Aryan Khan is currently in judicial custody and the 23-year-old approached the special court for bail after his plea was rejected by a magistrate's court. 

The former chief minister also alleged the state government misused the police to enforce the shutdown.

The three ruling allies have urged people to support the Maharashtra bandh, which began at midnight, to express their solidarity with farmers.

Aryan Khan was arrested on October 3 by the NCB after the agency’s team raided an alleged rave party on the Goa-bound cruise ship a day before and seized drugs.

Barring a few small traders who didn’t participate in the shutdown citing loss of business suffered due to coronavirus induced lockdown, others stayed close in Thane city

Aryan Khan and two others were sent to jail for two weeks pending an investigation into the case by additional chief metropolitan magistrate (ACMM) RM Nerlikar. 

A day-long statewide bandh in Maharashtra is currently underway. The bandh was called to protest against the killing of farmers in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri.

Congress will stage a protest outside the governor's residence in Mumbai at 11am. Also, eight BEST buses have been vandalised in the city since last night.

On October 3, eight people, including four farmers, died after a vehicle, reportedly owned by Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra, mowed down agitating farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri.