Month: November 2022

At the busy Ismail P Merchant Junction before the JJ flyover in Nagpada is an installation of a man filming the city in real-time as it rushes through at a quick pace. Various parts of his body symbolise several aspects of the city, with the video camera perched atop a tripod being an ode to […]

The electric metre box of a 15-storey high rise building in Mumbai’s Thakurli caught fire on Saturday morning around 9.20am with the blaze that spread across the duct comprising electric wires reaching till the top floor of the building and releasing thick smoke all over, claimed the fire officials who rushed to the spot with […]

State-owned utility Mahanagar Gas on Friday announced yet another increase in retail prices of auto fuels and cooking gas, citing rising input costs and short supply of gas. This is the second revision since October when the Centre had increased the price of domestically produced gas, supplied with an administered price mechanism (APM), by 40 […]

The 130-year-old tunnel recently discovered at Mumbai’s J J Hospital. (Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar) Mumbai Highlights, November 04, 2022: A 130-year-old tunnel was discovered underneath the nursing complex at Mumbai’s government-run J J Hospital Friday. The tunnel is believed to be 200 m long. Dr Pallavi Saple, the dean of the hospital, said the […]

The Bharat Jodo Yatra is scheduled to reach Madnur Naka at Deglur in Maharashtra’s Nanded district on November 7. (PTI) Mumbai News Live Updates, 5 November 2022: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address two rallies in Maharashtra – on November 10 and 18 – as part of his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ that will arrive in […]

The Supreme Court Friday asked the Bombay High Court to initiate steps to speed up cases related to the 1992-93 communal riots that are dormant owing to the accused being untraceable or absconding. A bench of Justices S K Kaul, A S Oka and Vikram Nath also set up a committee to monitor efforts to […]

The Bombay High Court on Friday granted relief from arrest to absconding IPS officer Saurabh Tripathi, who is named in Angadia extortion case. While hearing his anticipatory bail plea, the court said that Tripathi would not be arrested till November 15 and asked him to appear before the investigating officer on November 9 for interrogation. […]

A petition has been filed before the Bombay High Court seeking permission to translate a book by Mahatma Gandhi’s disciple Madeleine Slade from English to Hindi. A single Bench of Justice Manish Pitale was hearing a plea filed by one Anil Karkhanis, a resident of Belapur, under the Copyright Act requesting for grant of license […]