India’s biggest domestic cruise Angriya started to operate between Mumbai and Goa from Saturday. The 131-metre-long Angriya has 104 cabins and has a capacity to carry 350 passengers at a time. The ship has lavish sleeping quarters for all the passengers. The fare for travelers will lie between Rs 6,000[Read More…]
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Mumbai beat Delhi to win Vijay Hazare title
Bengaluru: Aditya Tare struck a half-century as Mumbai beat Delhi by four wickets to win their third Vijay Hazare Trophy title at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Saturday. Opting to bowl after winning the toss, fast bowlers Shivam Dubey (3/29) and Dhawal Kulkarni (3/30) starred by scalping three wickets[Read More…]
‘Woman colleague forced me to have sexual relationship,’ reads suicide note of deceased man
From past two weeks, #MeToo movement has been gaining a rapid momentum across the country with more and more women stepping forward to express the sexual assault they faced. However, in a recent shocking incident, a 38-year old man in Maharashtra allegedly committed suicide because he was fed up with[Read More…]
“It’s fun being sexual, but only when it’s consensual,” sings Mumbai girl amid #MeToo
While India is severely hit with #MeToo movement with more and more women coming out to share their experience of sexual misconduct, Sukhnidh Kaur, a legal aid counsellor in Mumbai, has come up with a song to convey an important message about consent. In her song, she described various situations when consent[Read More…]
Model murdered, body dumped in a suitcase in Mumbai’s Malad area; accused arrested
Mumbai: A 20-year-old model Mansi Dixit’ body was found stuffed in a suitcase in Malad area of Mumbai on Monday. Mansi Dixit a native of Kota, Rajasthan. She was a student and an aspiring model who used to work in an event management and designing company apart from studying. Her office[Read More…]
Journalist attacked with knuckle duster in Mumbai
Four people attacked a journalist in Mumbai late night on Sunday while he was on his way to home. Calling it an attempt to murder, the Times Now journalist Herman Gomes shares his horror on Facebook where he describes how the attack took place near Gamdevi police station while on[Read More…]
Air India diverts flight to Mumbai after freak accident in Tamil Nadu
Trichy/Mumbai, Oct 12, The wheels of an Air India Express flight to Dubai from Tiruchirappalli or Trichy in Tamil Nadu hit the airport’s compound wall while taking off with 136 passengers on Friday. All passengers and crew are safe, an official said. The flight IX-611 which took off at around[Read More…]
Singer Nitin Bali passes away at 47
Singer Nitin Bali who shot to fame in the early 90s with his remix of ‘Neele Neele Ambar’ has passed away after succumbing to injuries in a road accident. His niece confirmed the same to Spotboye and other media outlets. Nitin, 47 was returning to Malad from Borivli when his[Read More…]
In freak mishap, 3 drown in Mumbai well
Mumbai, Oct 2 (IANS) In a freak accident, three persons including a minor girl drowned in a well when a protective grill on which they were standing suddenly crashed on Tuesday, an official said here. The incident occurred on Dixit Road in Vile Parle east during a puja celebration at[Read More…]
Internal rift intensifies as Congress looks for revival in Maharashtra
The Congress party was in power in Maharashtra with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for 15 years in a row till 2014. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) took over the power in 2014 when Devendra Fadnavis became first BJP chief minister of the state. The Congress party is trying to woo[Read More…]
New blood donation form seeks details on ‘sex life’ of male donors
National Blood Transfusion Council recently circulated an updated blood nation form in Mumbai which seems to be an exhaustive one as it requires male donors to answer questions about their sexual behaviour and whether they have multiple sex partners. The updated guideline re-iterated that gay and bisexual men, transgender and female sex[Read More…]
Petrol nears Rs 90/litre in Mumbai, over Rs 82 in Delhi
Domestic fuel prices continued to scale new heights on Monday, with the price of petrol nearing the psychological Rs 90 a litre-mark in Mumbai with the fuel selling at Rs 89.44 under the dynamic pricing regime. As per rates released daily by state-run Indian Oil Corp, the depreciating rupee and[Read More…]
Petrol hits a record at Rs 89/litre in Mumbai
Fuel prices in the country hit a new benchmark on Saturday with the price of petrol in Mumbai touching Rs 89 per litre, for the first time ever. It was priced at Rs 89.01 in the financial capital of the country, up from Rs 88.67 per litre on Friday, data[Read More…]
Mumbai: Husband forgets wife’s gift in local train; guess who helps?
Sagar M Mavani, a stand-up comedian from Mumbai, had lost a gift he had brought for his wife in Mumbai local train. To his saviour came the Mumbai’s Central Railway and RPF in front, tracing and returning the lost gift. Sagar had boarded a Kalyan local from Vidyavihar and got off at Thakurli,[Read More…]
BJP’s Ram Kadam, who promised ‘girl Kidnap’, ranked worst MLA 2nd time: Survey
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Ram Kadam, who was recently under spotlight for his controversial statement claiming to kidnap girls for boys, has been ranked the worst MLA for the second time in a row. Of the 32 MLA on the list for a survey, Ram Kadam stood the last. The[Read More…]
Party vows ‘Beti Bachao’, BJP MLA Ram Kadam says ‘kidnap women you like’
Ram Kadam, a BJP MLA from Mumbai’s Ghatkopar constituency, faced a severe lash back after a video of him allegedly claiming to abduct women for men, went viral. The Maharashtra MLA made the shocking remark at a Dahi Handi event on Monday night, promising the young men that he would[Read More…]
Miss Universe 2018: Mumbai girl Nehal Chudasama to represent India
Nehal Chudasama from Mumbai was crowned the Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva Miss Universe 2018 at a star-studded grand finale event here on Friday night. She will compete at the Miss Universe 2018 pageant in Bangkok in December. Actor Sushant Singh Rajput announced Nehal as the winner, while Miss Diva- Miss[Read More…]
Bhima Koregoan violence: Culprits walk free while government hounds activists
Dalits, every year celebrate the 1818 victory of the lower caste Mahar soldiers in the British army over Brahmin led Maratha Empire.
Modi government’s unfolding emergency through back door
On Tuesday morning, Pune police conducted a widespread raid and simultaneous arrests of activists in Ranchi, Hyderabad, Delhi, Faridabad, Goa and Mumbai. Stan Swamy in Ranchi, Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, Gautam Navlakha in New Delhi, Sudha Bharadwaj in Faridabad, Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde in Goa and Vernon Gonsalves and Arun[Read More…]
First penguin chick born in India dead within a week
Humboldt Penguin, the first penguin chick born in Country, died early this week due to new born anomalies, dysfunctional liver and yolk sac retention (failure to absorb yolk). It was exactly a week after the first penguin to be born in the country, emerged from a single egg that the[Read More…]
Mumbai: Thane citizens to boycott elections, demand potholes repaired ASAP
Thousands of Thane residents have vowed to boycott every election – from the municipal corporation to the Lok Sabha – until roads are repaired in their localities. The protest came in the wake of a lengthy campaign run by this newspaper highlighting the condition of roads in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region,[Read More…]
Mumbai: The damp city sheltering dreams; here Posh to Penniless has a say and a stay
“Vada pao, Vada pao dus rupiya Vada pao. ..” a typical Mumbaikar accent pierced through my sleep and it was then the weather had started becoming gentle towards me, the heat escaped and the damp of the region took over me, consequently, I realized that the train had touched the lands of ethnicity and diversity; Maharastra it was, one of the most[Read More…]
Mumbai: 67-year-old father stabs daughter’s boyfriend
A 67-year-old man identified as Rajendra was arrested in Mumbai for murdering his daughter’s boyfriend Surendra Mishra (29). Investigation revealed that the father was against the relationship of his daughter with Surendra. Along with Rajendra, two others have been arrested for being involved with the murderer. According to the investigations[Read More…]
50% school syllabus to be reduced by 2019, know why?
In a bid to promote the sports in India, Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, on Monday August 6, announced to make sports period compulsory in schools after reducing the syllabus by fifty per cent by 2019. Rathore said the ministry is planning several things to make sports more relevant.[Read More…]
Mehul Choksi’s passport issued without police verification: Mumbai Police
Mumbai: Mumbai Police on Saturday said the Regional Passport Office (RPO) here had issued a passport to the absconding diamantaire Mehul Choksi, one of the prime accused in the PNB fraud, after granting him a no ‘Police Verification Required (PVR) status. Accordingly, no PVR was generated for the passport, issued[Read More…]