Category: Maharashra

The city witnessed a further drop in the minimum temperatures recorded as compared to the last two days. On Thursday morning, minimum temperatures recorded was 11.9 degrees Celsius which was lower as compared to 12.5 degree Celsius recorded on Wednesday morning. 11.9 degree Celsius of temperature recorded once again makes it the lowest of the season so far.

Mumbai: The city recorded the lowest minimum temperature of 12.5 degrees Celsius on Wednesday morning for the month of January since the year 2014. The lowest minimum recorded last year (2016) in January was 12.6 degrees Celsius. Weathermen have forecasted that minimum temperatures would either be in the same range or would drop further in the next two days. The minimum […]

Six workers were suffocated to death when a fire broke out in a bakery shop whose only exit was locked from outside in Kondhwa area here in the wee hours on Friday. The victims, all hailing from Uttar Pradesh, used to sleep on the loft inside the bakery shop, ‘Bakes and Cakes’, which is owned by three partners. “We received […]

Mumbai Customs sleuths seized cash totalling around Rs 69 lakh in two separate cases here, which included recovery of Rs 25 lakh in 2,000 rupee notes. The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Customs made these seizures at the international airport here in the wee hours and four persons were arrested in this connection. In the first case, foreign currency […]

Laying the foundation stone of the Pune Metro Rail project finally resolved itself with Pune Mayor and Nationalist Congress Party leader Prashant Jagtap announcing on Wednesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would inaugurate the project on December 24 and NCP chief Sharad Pawar would share the dais with him. “The project will be inaugurated at the hands of the Prime […]

A fire broke out in the multi-storeyed Air India building in South Mumbai on Tuesday. The blaze occured on the 22nd floor of the high rise, fire brigade sources said. Soon after the incident, eight fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the flames were contained, they said, adding there were no reports of any casualties so far.