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  • Ajit Pawar joins Shinde government, takes oath as Deputy Chief Minister

    Ajit Pawar joins Shinde government, takes oath as Deputy Chief Minister

    Mumbai (IANS). In another major upheaval in Maharashtra politics on Sunday, in a fast-paced development, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Ajit Pawar broke away from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and joined the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government along with his supporters. He took oath of the post of Deputy Chief Minister in the afternoon.

    Earlier this morning, Pawar called a meeting of more than three dozen of his supporting NCP MLAs, in which the outline of the political future was discussed.

    Soon after the meeting, Pawar went to the Raj Bhavan to meet Governor Ramesh Bais to hand over letters of support to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, and shortly after took oath as Deputy Chief Minister for the third time in the current assembly’s term.

  • LIVE video of death, will scream after watching

    LIVE video of death, will scream after watching

    Mumbai: A heart-wrenching video has surfaced from Kandivali West Dhanukarwadi in Mumbai. Where a car ran over a laborer while cleaning the sewer line on the road and he died. The deceased has been identified as Jagveer Shamveer Yadav (37). According to the information, the deceased was a resident of Badaun district of UP. This incident has also been captured in the CCTV camera. The heart-wrenching video is now going viral on social media.

  • Mumbai Rains: Water Leaks From Roof Of Mulund Railway Station As City Witnesses Heavy Rainfall

    Mumbai Rains: Water Leaks From Roof Of Mulund Railway Station As City Witnesses Heavy Rainfall

    Are the Mumbai local railway stations not ready for monsoon? A video from the Mulund railway station has gone viral on social media for filming an episode of water leakage amidst heavy rainfall in the city. It showed rainwater entering the platform due to a damaged roof, turning the space into what netizens dubbed a “waterfall.” Passengers on the respective platforms were seen using their umbrellas to avoid getting drenched.

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    Many Mumbaikars shared the video and made it go viral on Twitter. One of the users captioned it to read, “Railway station pe waterfall dekhna hai, Aajao dikha dunga boss (Wanna see waterfall? Come, we’ll show it to you).” Another hilariously tweeted, “Singapore Changi airport rain oculus comes to Mulund railway station.”

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    Mumbai Rains

    Mumbai woke up to a rainy morning as several areas in the city saw light to moderate rainfall on Sunday, June 25. The city has been receiving heavy rainfall since yesterday with waterlogging and traffic snarls reported at several low-lying areas last evening.

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    Mumbai’s temperature on Sunday morning is 24.5°C, while the humidity is 95%. The weather agency said maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 30°C & 24°C.

    So far, no disruptions in BEST bus or local train services have been reported while the traffic is running smoothly so far as the BMC quickly deployed pumps to clear out the accumulated water.

  • Mumbai: Brawl erupts between staff and customers at bar, watch

    Mumbai: Brawl erupts between staff and customers at bar, watch

    Mumbai: A brawl erupted between the bouncers and a few customers at a bar in Mumbai yesterday night. The video of the incident is making the rounds on social media platforms. Reportedly, seven people have so far been arrested in this case.

    Reportedly, the fight took place at the Escobar located in the Bandra area of Mumbai in Maharashtra.

    Twitter user Preeti Sompura posted a video of the incident and wrote in the caption, “yesterday night at Bandra’s Escobar. Customers beaten by pub bouncer and staffs.”

    We can see in the video that people are exchanging punches while a few people trying to calm others. One of the bouncers is seen kicking someone, probably a customer. It can be seen that two clips have been merged in the video.

  • Couple Duped For 1.38 Crore In Sion Property Scam

    Couple Duped For 1.38 Crore In Sion Property Scam

    Sion police have registered a case against three fraudsters for duping a 34-year-old woman, Neha Nawar, of ₹1.38 crore on the pretext of getting a flat in Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) at a low price.

    Couple duped in property scam

    The accused, Krishna Tari, Sandeep Gundlapelli and Shivraj Shetty, showed Navar and her husband a flat in Pratiksha Nagar and assured them that they would receive a flat in the MHADA lottery. After showing the flat, the accused took ₹28.20 lakh from the couple and helped them fill out the lottery form, presenting them with a letter with the MHADA letterhead stating that their application has been accepted.

    The fraudsters took a total of ₹1,38,54,600 from the couple from the year 2015 to June 2023 and disappeared without providing possession of the flat. The first information report has been filed under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.

  • Four minor boys drowned in Mumbai’s Juhu, bodies of two recovered

    Four minor boys drowned in Mumbai’s Juhu, bodies of two recovered

    Mumbai (IANS) | Mumbai Police has recovered the bodies of two of the four minor boys who were washed away in the sea near Juhu and has resumed the search for two others, BMC Disaster Control said on Tuesday. All these boys were washed away in the Arabian Sea on Monday evening in Juhu Koliwada area.

    Police recovered the bodies of Dharmesh Valji Fauzia and Shubham Yogesh Bhogania, both 16, and sent them to R.N. Cooper was sent to the hospital.

    Two others, Manish Yogesh Bhogania (12) and Jai Roshan Tajbaria (15) are still missing at sea. Ahead of the cyclonic storm ‘Biporjoy’, the sea is rough and high waves are rising.

    The boy, one of the total five drowning victims on Monday evening, was rescued by local people and fishermen. Mumbai Police, BMC Fire Brigade along with speedboats along with an Indian Navy helicopter searched the sea till around midnight.

    The five were among eight school friends who had gone for a half-day picnic in Juhu on Monday afternoon, a day before the school reopened on Tuesday.

    Five of the eight reportedly ignored the warnings and went to a small fishing jetty from where they were washed away by the sea waves within half a kilometre.

    None of the eight students knew swimming. He lived in a slum area of Vakola. This is the first major tragedy of this monsoon season in Mumbai.

    –IANS

  • Man arrested for smuggling gold biscuits worth Rs 3.3 crore

    Man arrested for smuggling gold biscuits worth Rs 3.3 crore

    Mumbai News: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) Kolkata has arrested a man from Virar in connection with a gold biscuits smuggling case worth Rs3.39 crore. The arrest took place after the interrogation of the two accused who were arrested earlier. According to DRI Kolkata, they received information about smuggled gold stored in a building belonging to Arunangshu Mukherjee in Ganguly Road, Howrah.

    Accused committed activities in rented flat

    Mukherjee told DRI that he had given a room on rent to a businessman, Ashwin Saroj, of Uttar Pradesh. Meanwhile, Saroj’s associate Bhupendra Singh Songara, alias Guru, came to this place and found 5.6kg of foreign gold in his possession. During questioning, Sonegra revealed that he had come to give this gold to Saroj’s cousin Aman Saroj and then from Aman, it was supposed to be delivered to Idramani Ram in Mumbai.

    Gold came to Kolkata via Bangladesh

    Aman told DRI that he come there on the instructions of another person, Monu Saroj. Monu had instructed Aman to take the gold from Sonegra and take a train from Howrah station to Mumbai and hand over the gold to Ram in Virar. DRI shared the information with the police and the Mumbai unit of DRI took Ram into custody from Virar.

    Ram confessed to police that he received the gold biscuits from Bangladesh. Further investigation is underway.

  • Foreign exchange reserves increased by $ 5.92 billion to reach $ 595.1 billion

    Foreign exchange reserves increased by $ 5.92 billion to reach $ 595.1 billion

    Mumbai. The country’s foreign exchange reserves increased by $ 5.92 billion to $ 595.1 billion in the week ended June 02 as compared to $ 4.34 billion in the previous week due to increase in foreign currency assets, gold reserves and reserves with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It had come down to $ 589.14 billion.

    According to the weekly data released by the Reserve Bank, foreign currency assets, the largest component of foreign exchange reserves, increased by $ 5.3 billion to reach $ 526.2 billion in the week ended June 02. Similarly, gold reserves increased by $655 million to $45.6 billion during this period.

    At the same time, the special drawing rights (SDR) fell by $ 6 million and came down to $ 18.2 billion in the reporting week. Reserves with the IMF increased by $10 million to $5.12 billion during this period.

  • Mumbai: Man, Two Sons Get Life In Jail For Killing Neighbour

    Mumbai: Man, Two Sons Get Life In Jail For Killing Neighbour

    A Mumbai court has sentenced three members of a family to life imprisonment for killing their neighbour in 2018. Mohammad Nawab Khan and his sons Najim and Farhan were convicted on June 7 for killing Abdul Sayyad in their chawl in Andheri.

    The detail order of Additional Sessions Judge AZ Khan was made available on Friday.

    The trio had made three illegal constructions in front of Sayyad’s house after encroachment, which were removed when the latter complained to civic authorities This led to a dispute during which Nawab Khan and his sons stabbed Sayyad to death.

    Nawab Khan’s wife Firoza is absconding in the case, as per the prosecution.

    -With PTI Input

  • Shocking revelations in the brutal murder of the live-in partner

    Shocking revelations in the brutal murder of the live-in partner

    Mumbai. The murder case of Saraswati Vaidya, who was in a live-in relationship, has created a sensation across the country. The manner in which 32-year-old Saraswati was murdered and brutalized by her 56-year-old live-in partner Manoj Sahni, even the police are shocked. According to police sources, he killed Saraswati by slitting her throat and then cut her into more than 20 pieces with a saw. Then to hide the dead body, boiled it in a cooker and kept feeding it to the dogs. But Manoj Sahni has concocted a different story in his statement to the police.

    The police have been successful in identifying them. His 3 sisters have been identified by calling. The work of handing over the dead body to the family is going on. Their DNA is being mixed. Investigation revealed that these people were married. Due to the difference in age, they did not tell anyone else. DCP Jayant Bajbale has given this information.

    DCP Jayant Bajbale said the deceased has been identified as 32-year-old Saraswati Vaidya, who was staying in the flat with her friend Manoj Sahni, 56. Neighbors informed the police after foul smell emanating from the flat. After this, the mutilated body of the woman was recovered from the seventh floor of the society. After killing the woman, her body was cut into several pieces. The accused boiled the pieces of the dead body in a cooker so that the stench did not spread. Despite this, however, the neighbors were disturbed by the strange smell, so they complained to the police. Police have also recovered pieces of the dead body from the spot.