Fire brigade official injured in Mumbai high-rise blaze

TWO CHILDREN STRANGLED TO DEATH BY

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Aurangabad: Two minor children were allegedly strangled to death by their 22-year-old mother in Aurangabad city, police said on Tuesday. The woman allegedly strangled her six-year-old daughter and four-year-old son to death, an official said. The children did not come out of their room on Monday morning. The woman then called some relatives who took the unconscious children to a hospital where they were declared dead, the official said. According to an autopsy report, the children died of strangulation, he said.

KALYAN BASED JEWELLER FLEES WITH ` 26 LAKH, CHEATING CASE REGISTERED

Thane: A case of cheating has been registered against a jeweller for fraud and allegedly mortgaging customers’ jewellery. Since 2021, the Kalyan-based jeweller allegedly mortgaged customers’ jewellery and also ran a `bhishi’ scheme where he collected Rs26,74,000 and misappropriated the money. When some investors visited his shop to claim back their money, they found the shop closed and the jeweller untraceable, following which they approached the police. An FIR was registered under Indian Penal Code sections 406 and 420, said an official.

Mumbai (PTI): A fire brigade official was injured after a fire broke out on the seventh floor of an under-construction high-rise in Prabhadevi area of central Mumbai, officials said on Tuesday.

The blaze that erupted at around 8.40 pm on Monday in the 55-storey India Bulls Sky Forest building on Senapati Bapat Marg spread to building construction material, plywood, bamboo, office furniture, records, and electric wiring stored in a godown at the seventh-floor podium, a civic official said. “A compressed oxy- gen gas cylinder exploded in one of the godowns, thereby causing more spread of the fire,” the official said.

A senior fire brigade official who was injured in the incident was rushed to KEM Hospital and discharged after treatment, officials said.

At least seven fire engines and other fire brigade vehicles were pressed into service and the blaze was doused by around 4 am on Tuesday, a civic official said.

The cause of the fire is under investigation and the cooling operation is on at the spot, officials said.

In that case, the commissioner would have to once again refer the matter to the committee for its consideration and appropriate recommendations, it said.

“Recording of findings on the question of jurisdiction is important for the reason that it goes to the root of the whole dispute,” the HC said.

On Wednesday, she will visit Grishneshwar temple, which is an important pilgrimage site in the Shaiva tradition of Hinduism, as it is considered to be the 12th jyotirlinga in the country, and the Ellora Caves, the official said.

Around 100 police personnel will be deployed for her securi-

On Sunday, Clinton attended a programme in Ahmedabad on Sunday to mark 50 years of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) as a trade union and paid homage to its founder and renowned social activist Ela Bhatt, who passed away in November last year.

On Monday, Clinton announced a Global Climate Resilience Fund of 50 million dollars for women to fight climate change in association with SEWA.

The fund will empower

Around 100 police personnel will be deployed for her security during the visit women and communities to fight climate change and help provide new livelihood and education, she said.

Clinton visited salt pan workers in the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat on Monday and learnt from them the process of salt production and hardships faced by them.

NAVI MUMBAI-GATEWAY OF INDIA FERRY FLAGGED OFF

Maha Minister of Ports and Shipping Dada Bhuse on Tuesday flagged off ‘Nayan XI’ at Belapur in Navi Mumbai, inaugurating the water taxi service between the Gateway of India and the Belapur jetty. The ferry service can carry 200 people —140 on the bottom deck and 60 on the top-across the distance in an hour, and will cost Rs250 per seat on the lower deck and Rs350 a seat on the upper deck. This new service, launched on an experimental basis, will give commuters another transport option, he said.

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Transporter duped of `75k in cyber fraud

Thane (PTI): A 60-yearold transport operator from Thane was allegedly cheated of Rs75,000 by cyber fraudsters, police said on Tuesday.

As per the complaint, the victim on January 16 received a call from a man posing as an Army officer, who claimed that he wanted to transport medicines from Mumbai airport to Hyderabad

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and sought his services.

The caller was informed that the transportation charges would be Rs50,000, to which he agreed.

The caller then asked the complainant to make a transaction of Rs50,000 using a QR code, following which he found that Rs75,000 had been debited from his account, the official said.

Based on the complaint, an offence under relevant sections of the Information Tech -

The victim received a call from a man posing as an Army officer nology Act has been registered against unidentified persons, an official from Chitalsar police station said.