An encounter with terrorists at a cafe.
The Bombay high court on Wednesday permitted Delhi University's associate professor Hany Babu, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, to be shifted to the private Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai for medical treatment.
Twenty people, including eight children, were killed and 21 others were injured when a portion of a four-storey building in south Mumbai collapsed in the wee hours on Monday, officials said. The dead included eight children, same number of women and four men, they said adding, the injured were admitted to the government-run J J Hospital.
The Mumbai Police on Friday released sketches of three persons who apparently carried out reconnaissance of sensitive spots in the city like Mahim dargah, Haji Ali dargah and Mahalaxmi temple last week. Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) K L Prasad said that the three men, along with a burqa-clad woman, had used a taxi for traveling across the city for the recce on October 22 and 23.
In a U-turn, a sweeper of a government hospital and key witness in the 26/11 trial who had claimed he disposed off the bullet-proof jacket of slain Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare long ago, on Friday said he had no idea about the protective gear.
The Mumbai police who traced Faisal to Khandala, a hill station near Pune, have brought him back to Mumbai. It is learnt that the police will produce Faisal in court today and then send him for psychiatric tests. His father Tahir Hussain has been asked to be present in court as well.
Extradited gangster Abu Salem, who was on Saturday taken to J J Hospital for a routine check up, has denied that there was any threat to his life. The state government and the Central Bureau of Investigation have stated that Salem's life was in danger and thus he should not be brought out of the Arthur Road jail premises. He told the media outside the hospital that there is no threat to his life and restraining him inside the jail was just the CBI's manner to delay his trial.
A Dubai-bound passenger, who had allegedly swallowed 159 capsules containing foreign currencies valued more than Rs 16 lakh, was arrested on charges of smuggling
Ten people have died and several others injured after a residential building on Temkar road near J J hospital collapsed, police sources said.
An inmate of the Central Prison in south-central Mumbai was killed and three others were injured in a clash between two rival groups inside the high security jail on Saturday morning.
Two children were crushed to death at Worli in central Mumbai late Sunday night when a speeding cab ploughed into a pedestrian path on which they were asleep with other family members, police said.
In an informal briefing at his Dadar residence, Raj told reporters that he had already made his comments on what he felt about the functioning of the party.
The Bombay high court, while hearing posthumously the appeals filed by late Jesuit priest Stan Swamy in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, on Monday said he was a wonderful person and the court had 'great respect' for his work.
She was on an indefinite fast since February 21 to protest against the Maharashtra government's policy on slums.
After spending over two months in jail in the alleged TRP rigging scam, ex-Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta was given bail on Tuesday by the Bombay high court which said his detention was not necessary and there was no propriety in keeping him behind bars.
Lamboo Shakil, the 42-year-old associate of Dawood, had come to the metropolis to carry out the gang's activities.
"The next 48 hours will be critical for her," J J Hospital Dean Dr T P Lahane told reporters on Saturday when asked if she is out of danger.
The prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case was also sent to the citys J J Hospital for a medical check-up after he complained of a neurological problem.
Merchant had arranged the finance for the blasts, and was also linked to conspirators Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim.
The victim, Pritinder Kaur Jaspal Singh Nagi, was standing outside the New Oberoi Hotel in Nariman Point, Mumbai, when the windowpane fell on her head.
Mai is survived by her grandson and Republican Party of India leader Prakash Ambedkar.
'If you look at the deaths that are occurring across the state or country, I think out of these 25 not even one required ICU care. That's what we are proud of.'
'They (the government) want to tame everything.' 'The entire systems they are trying to change.'
This is the second major building collapse in the city in just over a month.
Indrani, who is lodged in the Byculla prison, is among the 200 inmates against whom a case was on Sunday registered for rioting, unlawful assembly, assault on public servant and other relevant sections under the Indian Penal Code, a police official said.
Indrani also claimed that she was threatened of sexual assault after the death of a convict sparked protest in the prison.
The incident took place at around 12.30 am in the Crawford Market area under Pydhonie Police Station limits when the man lost control over his high-end Mercedes, as a result of which it rammed into a pavement and hit five persons who were sleeping there
Lakdawala was apprehended by Mumbai Crime Branch's anti-extortion cell team at the International Airport. He once worked for underworld don Dawood Ibrahim before forming his own gang.
This is the fourth death this year caused by vehicles skidding on potholes on the Jawhar-Dahanu road.
Bollywood star Salman Khan did not possess a driving license when his car met with an accident in 2002, an officer at Regional Transport Office on Monday informed the Sessions court hearing the hit-and-run case.
Five people, including a woman, were killed and three others were injured after a three-storey building in Kamathipura area in south Mumbai collapsed on Saturday.
The latest updates from the Pratyusha Banerjee suicide case.
Over 300 people from Maharashtra have been rescued from the earthquake-hit Nepal in the last four days, while the state government is unable to establish contact with 40 others.
A post-mortem examination was conducted on Saturday on the body of veteran communist leader Govind Pansare, who died in Mumbai after he was airlifted to the city from Kolhapur for treatment.
He denied carrying the blood vials in an iron container; said he took them in an envelope.
Media magnate Indrani Mukherjea, prime accused in the sensational murder case of her daughter Sheena Bora, on Sunday regained consciousness and is "out of danger", hospital authorities said.
'Stan's death is the culmination of a series of acts of abominable cruelty on the part of the Indian State.'
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