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From sirens to silence: How city lost its daily wail

India, May 7 -- For decades, at exactly 9.00am, a mechanical wail would ripple through Mumbai's neighbourhoods. It wasn't an emergency. It was routine. The city's air raid sirens - mounted on rooftops... Read More


SC paves way for local body polls, but questions remain

Mumbai, May 7 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the path for elections to 687 urban and rural local bodies in Maharashtra, some of which haven't had any elected representatives for over five yea... Read More


13 booked for Mithi river desilting fraud

MUMBAI, May 7 -- The Mumbai police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has registered an FIR against 13 people, including three civic officials, for allegedly causing a loss of Rs.65.54 crore to the Brihan... Read More


Mock drills in 8 districts, largest at Cross Maidan

Mumbai, May 7 -- Following instructions from the Centre, the state government will hold mock drills in eight districts of Maharashtra including Mumbai at 4 pm on Wednesday. The drills have been planne... Read More


HC pulls up police for 'copy-paste culture'

MUMBAI, May 7 -- The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court on Tuesday took suo-motu (on its own) cognisance of the "copy-paste" culture among investigating officers while recording witness stateme... Read More


Bizman loses vision after eye surgery, alleges negligence

Mumbai, May 7 -- A 67-year-old Navi Mumbai-based businessman, Rajendra Hardayal Gupta, has approached the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) and Vashi police, alleging that he permanently lost vision i... Read More


Cop suspended for violating protocol while arresting doc

MUMBAI, May 7 -- Mumbai police commissioner Deven Bharti on Tuesday suspended senior police inspector Ravindra Katkar for registering a First Information Report (FIR) against a doctor and arresting hi... Read More


duo held for trafficking Wildlife articles

MUMBAI, May 7 -- Two people accused of illegal trade of wildlife articles were apprehended on Sunday by the Mumbai unit of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. Two leopard skins with heads and a boar'... Read More


FY courses to begin one month early

MUMBAI, May 7 -- For the first time, first-year undergraduate classes in colleges affiliated to the University of Mumbai will begin as early as June 13. In contrast, the last academic year had begun o... Read More


HC sets aside eviction fiat after 50 years

MUMBAI, May 7 -- The Bombay high court on Monday set aside two orders of the Maharashtra Revenue Tribunal from 1975 which divested an 82-year-old agriculturalist of the land he was cultivating in Have... Read More