12-year-old killed as fire engulfs Malad shanties

“Dubai, London, and Abu Dhabi emerged as the top three international destinations from Mumbai while New Delhi, Bengaluru, and Goa retained their positions as the top three domestic destinations. CSMIA currently acts as a gateway to 65 domestic and 47 international destinations for passengers from Mumbai and its surrounding areas,” it further added.

ment has any rehabilitation scheme, then the affected persons should be permitted to apply for the same if eligible.

It also said that the notices issued to the occupants of the petitioner society’s structures do not point out any rehabilitation scheme or any requirements of eligibility or how these are to be met or within what time.

The trackmen were working between Lasalgaon and Ugaon stations of the Central Railway, around 5.45 am, when the tower wagon came from the wrong side and crushed them to death, an official said.

Once informed of the incident, a team of Lasalgaon police arrived on the scene and took the wagon driver into custody. The four employees were rushed to Lasalgaon rural hospital where doctors declared them dead, the police said.

Mumbai: A 12-year-old boy was killed after a fire broke out in a structure and engulfed several shanties in Kurar village in Malad suburb of Mumbai on Monday, a fire brigade official said.

The blaze erupted on the first floor of the ground-plus-one-storey structure in a 1,200 sq feet area at around 11.15 am and soon spread to “50 to 100 hutments,” the official said, adding it was doused after almost three hours with assistance from eight fire engines, four jumbo tankers and an ambulance.

Man held in Hyd for bomb hoax at Google’s Pune office

Pune (PTI): The Google office in Pune was briefly put on alert after a call was received about a bomb in the premises which later turned out to be a hoax, police said on Monday.

A man, who allegedly made the call in an inebriated state, has been traced to Hyderabad and apprehended from there, they said.

Google’s office located at Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai received a call at 7.54 pm on Sunday that a bomb was kept at the company’s Pune office, located on the 11th floor of a multi-storey commercial building in Mundhwa area here, an official said. Company officials lodged a complaint with the BKC police who registered an FIR against the then unidentified person Indian Penal Code Sections 505(1)(B) (intent to cause, or which is likely to cause, fear or alarm to public) and 506 (criminal intimidation), he said.

The Mumbai Police subsequently shared the information with their Pune counterparts, and the Pune police and the Bomb

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Detection and Disposal Squad reached the spot and carried out extensive searches, Pune Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone V) Vikrant Deshmukh said, adding, “The call later turned out to be a hoax. The caller has been traced to Hyderabad and apprehended. He allegedly made the call in an inebriated condition.”

The investigation is ongoing, he also said.

After the incident, a boy was rushed to Shatabdi hospital where he was declared brought dead, the official said.

Initially, it was declared as a “level-two” (major) fire but was later scaled down to “level 1”, he said.

Electric wiring and other equipment, household furniture, LPG cylinders and thermocol material were gutted, the official said.

Area residents used three DCP (Dry Chemical Powder) fire extinguishers while fire personnel used two small hose lines to put out the flames.

Narrow Escape For 3 After Car Catches Fire

Thane: Three persons going from Mumbai towards Nashik had a lucky escape after the car they were travelling in caught fire near Kharegaon toll plaza in Thane district in the wee hours of Monday, civic officials said. Traffic movement on the road was affected for some time due to the incident, which left the car gutted, but no one was injured. It took emergency personnel about 45 minutes to put out the fire, Thane Municipal Corporation’s regional disaster management cell chief Avinash Sawant said, adding that the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.

Man held for strangling pregnant wife to death

First India Bureau Mumbai: A 24-year-old woman in her seventh month of pregnancy was allegedly killed by her husband and his parents in Mumbai’s Dharavi area after a scuffle over dowry, police said on Monday.

“Roshni Saroj was found dead in her home around 5.30 on Saturday. Her husband and his family had allegedly sought Rs5 lakh and an Enfield Bullet as dowry when they got married a year ago,” he said.

“Her parents, who were not well off, gave a gold chain, a ring and Rs50,000 at the time of the wedding. They said Roshni was being harassed in her marital home. After Friday night’s row, Roshni called home to inform her father about the scuffle,” he added.

“Her husband and in-laws said she had

Dharmalingam Pillai (69) went missing from Mumbai airport hours before returning to Durban after birthday trip to India

Mumbai (PTI): A 69-year-old non-resident Indian, who went missing from Mumbai international airport, has been traced to a suburb and reunited with his daughter after 12 days with the help of two alert citizens, police said on Monday.

The NRI, Dharmalingam Pillai, who lives in South Africa and has been suffering from memory loss, went missing on January 30 a few hours before he and his daughter were scheduled to take a flight from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

International Airport here to Durban, they said.

Pillai, who is a retired clerk, and his daughter had come to India to visit their roots on the occasion of his birthday. His grandfather had gone to South Africa and since then the family was settled in Durban, an official said.

A missing person’s report was registered at Sahar police station on January 31 following which around 7,000 handbills and posters carrying Pillai’s picture and other information were printed and circulated in the city with the help of his daughter and the office of the South African Consulate General in Mumbai, he said.

A missing person’s report was registered on Jan 31, and 7,000 handbills and posters carrying Pillai’s picture and other information were printed and circulated in the city

The city police also shared information about Pillai on social media platforms, he said.

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Father Held After Wife Kills Herself

Mumbai (PTI): A 34-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide in her home in Bandra in Mumbai over dowry harassment, after which her husband and his father were arrested, a police official said on Monday. Pinky Chawla ended her life in her Khatik Wadi locality last week by consuming poison, after which her father filed a complaint alleging his daughter was being harassed for dowry, the Nirmal Nagar police station official said.

hanged herself, but her father claims she was strangled and then hanged to pass off the murder as suicide,” he further said.