The in-laws of a 26-year-old woman, Shobhana Surti, who committed suicide on Wednesday even as her husband watched on helplessly over the webcam, were arrested by the Juhu police on Friday.
The only Muslim family in a society comprising 30 independent bungalows in Kurla has been served a legal notice to make it pay its water bill as if it were three separate families, which would mean paying three times the usual amount.
Barclays, the London-headquartered banking and financial services company, has leased 1.8 lakh sq ft commercial space with an option to take additional 20,000 sq ft space in Nirlon Knowledge Park, an IT/ITES building on the Western Express Highway in Goregaon.
Turning a blind eye to the waiting list for healthy corneas, the state has not taken any step to implement a path-breaking initiative to encourage eye donation five months after it was suggested by the Centre.
As the government dilly-dallies on an innovative measure to boost voluntary eye donation, activists want it to go a few steps more and allow eye collection from all medico-legal cases.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the country's largest civic body, has been fielding the most Right to Information (RTI) queries of any public institution across the state.
The BMC has written to the National Disaster Response Force and other maritime agencies, requesting their help in its disaster-management plan for the monsoon.
The Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC), which faced flak last year for delayed monsoon-related work, has decided to tie it up well before the rains arrive this year.
Even as the rains are expected to hit the city around June 6, only 30% of the desilting work at Mithi river's crucial 17.8km stretch and 50% desilting of all major nullahs has been completed in the name of the city's monsoon-preparedness.
In a first, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to upload the city's vision for the next 20 years on its website even before the draft development plan (DP) is ready.
Anti-terrorism squad and CBI officers who investigated the 2006 Malegaon mosque bombings may be subjected to a probe as the Centre has taken a serious view of allegations that nine Muslim youths were framed with mala fide intentions.
Text messages promising a seat in a private medical or dental college of choice for a hefty fee have been flooding the cellphones of students who are to appear for the undergraduate entrance test this Sunday.
Nearly 1,400 schoolteachers in Nanded district of Maharashtra stand to lose their jobs after the state authorities ordered 137 government schools to close. Their salaries have been withheld already.
The drug dealers attempting to smuggle are now roping in educated women with steady professions as their carrier, say air intelligence unit (AIU) officials.
The recent drug seizures at Mumbai airport which involved women concealing contraband in thread bobbins may not have been discovered without specific intelligence.