Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Police have nabbed five members of a cybercriminal gang from Assam for cheating a foreign bank of Rs 1.26 crore in Mumbai by using credit cards obtained through forged documents and accessing data of customers having good CIBIL scores, officials said on Thursday. According to PTI, the crime branch arrested the accused from five villages in Morigaon district of the north-eastern state after conducting an operation with help from their local counterparts, an official said. We are closing the LIVE blog now
17 April,2025 10:01 PM ISTSantacruz observatory in suburban Mumbai recorded a maximum temperature of 33.8 degrees Celsius and a minimum temperature of 24.4 degrees Celsius
17 April,2025 10:01 AM IST | mid-day online correspondentAccording to the Thane Municipal Corporation’s disaster management cell, the blaze erupted in the meter room on the ground floor of B-Wing in the ground-plus-seven-storey residential building
17 April,2025 09:49 AM IST | mid-day online correspondentSupreme Court raps state govt, orders it to vacate two residential flats at Opera House occupied by cops since 1940 without any formal agreement; according to the petitioners, the flats were requisitioned by the police more than 80 years ago in order to maintain law and order during the turbulent period of the Independence movement
17 April,2025 12:19 PM IST | Faizan KhanWheelchair-bound activist shows Eknath Shinde just how challenging footpaths are at Dadar Parsi Colony; During Shinde’s inspection, he visited the Dadar Parsi Colony (DPC), the city’s verdant residential area, near Khodadad Circle
17 April,2025 12:17 PM IST | Hemal AsharStudy also finds 67 per cent of kids spend less than an hour outdoors; findings force Move For Health campaign across India; over a period of three months, responses from over 10,000 parents across four major cities—Mumbai, Pune, Delhi and Kolkata—were collected
17 April,2025 01:03 PM IST | Dipti SinghAnimal lovers fume after video of callous act surfaces; register FIR against four society members; it is believed the canines were shifted from a housing society in Kandivali
17 April,2025 01:04 PM IST | Ranjeet JadhavBMC sets up war room to track desilting ops, crack down on contractor lapses; as per civic data, around 12 per cent of the total desilting work has been completed so far
17 April,2025 07:44 AM IST | Sameer SurveCharge sheet details how Shariful Islam learnt of victim’s identity only after media coverage which he would follow on his phone
17 April,2025 07:50 AM IST | Diwakar SharmaAccused kidnapped the 6-year-old boy from his area; the accused worked with the victim’s father; according to the statement given by the victim’s father, a labourer, the accused worked with him
17 April,2025 07:56 AM IST | Aishwarya IyerExperts warn screen addiction, lack of play is warping kids’ minds and moods; mid-day speaks with Dr Milan Balakrishnan, consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist, to understand this better
17 April,2025 08:04 AM IST | Dipti SinghCivic body bans contractor, fines ready-mix concrete plants Rs 20 lakh each for poor-quality work; Additional Municipal Commissioner Abhijit Bangar inspected Dinkarrao Desai Road in Aarey Colony and found the work quality to be poor
17 April,2025 08:10 AM IST | A CorrespondentAll the passengers have been safely evacuated and no injuries have been reported in the incident. According to the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB), they received information about the incident at 9.58 pm
17 April,2025 11:06 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentADVERTISEMENT
In a major update on the Disha Salian murder case, Shiv Sena leader Naresh Mhaske has made sensational claims on Aaditya Thackeray’s friend circle and how Sanjay Raut always opposed it. The lawyer of Disha Salian’s father claimed that there were eyewitnesses who had seen Aditya Pancholi, Dino Morea, Aaditya Thackeray and his bodyguards gang-raping Disha Salian. In this matter, Shiv Sena leader Naresh Mhaske has urged the phone records to be checked of Ekta Kapoor, Dino Morea and Aditya Pancholi.
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The police have also recovered Rs 2.84 lakh in foreign currency and Indian rupees, an official said
17 April,2025 08:40 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondentThe accused was wanted in an attempt to murder case registered at Azad Maidan police station in south Mumbai in 1988 and a non-bailable warrant had been issued against him
17 April,2025 11:54 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentIn such scams, fraudsters call a person posing as officials of law enforcement agencies such as police, CBI, Enforcement Directorate and Customs, and claim that their mobile number, Aadhaar or bank account has been used for money laundering or some other illegal activity
17 April,2025 11:42 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentAuthorities have launched a murder investigation following the incident. According to officers, the suitcase was spotted around 9.30 am during a routine track inspection by the railway staff
16 April,2025 11:05 PM IST | Mumbai | Faizan KhanA division bench of Justices S Kotwal and S Modak, after hearing arguments from both sides, reserved its order on the matter
16 April,2025 09:12 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondenton the basis of a specific intelligence, a Guinean lady passenger, arriving at Mumbai from Nairobi suspected to be carrying Narcotic drugs, was intercepted by the DRI Mumbai Zonal Unit officers, the officials said
16 April,2025 02:20 PM IST | Mumbai | Faizan KhanThirty-three-year old bravely confronts duo inside her Palghar flat on Monday evening, uses wrestling move to help nab one of them; the 33-year-old woman bravely fought off two intruders who had broken into her home in Adarsh Nagar on Monday, saving gold ornaments and cash worth nearly Rs 10 lakh
16 April,2025 12:29 PM IST | Mumbai | Shirish VaktaniaBishnoi gang disowns Zeeshan Akhtar, co-conspirator in the politician’s killing, in a viral social media post; in February this year, Akhtar released a video from an undisclosed foreign location, claiming that he was falsely implicated in the Siddique murder case
16 April,2025 12:00 PM IST | Mumbai | Faizan KhanThe victim, who is a businesswoman and deals in chemicals, had received an email on January 26 about a business opportunity in the UK, the official said
16 April,2025 10:20 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentADVERTISEMENT