Vinod Shetty

THANE: An alleged member of the Hemant Pujari gang, Ram Singh Raj Bahadur Thakur (28),was shot dead by the Thane police in an encounter in the early hours of Sunday.

On December 2, 2018, teenager Vrinda Dinesh's budding cricket career was at the crossroads. On the day, she had scored seven runs against Gujarat for Karnataka in the BCCI senior women's One-Day Trophy.

Pop singer Suneeta Rao has dropped a new track titled "Vaada karo", highlighting climate change. She says she wrote the song when she was expecting her daughter, who is now 11.

An alleged Chhota Rajan associate, Dinesh Palekar (42), was arrested on Friday for murdering three people in Panvel in 2000.

MUMBAI: From waiting on tables in a Khar restaurant to issuing extortion threats to hoteliers, Hemant Pujari has had a meteoric rise in the Mumbai underworld over the past four years.

India FDI Watch and Action Aid, which studied the immediate and future impact of corporate and chain retails on hawkers, showed that hawkers' business is declining.

MUMBAI: Environmental activists and citizens held a candle-light vigil at the Gateway of India on Friday evening to observe the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy.

Saturday’s finale of the Bandstand Revival Project music festival at Shivaji Park promises a fun interlude. Among the performers is a band of teenage musicians from the ragpickers’ hub of Dharavi that specializes in “junk percussion”.

MUMBAI: The city police’s attempts to muzzle public discussions on Gujarat were criticised on Monday by lawyers, filmmakers, concerned citizens and activists for communal harmony and students at the Young Women’s Christian Association.

They comprise the 1,20,000-strong army that saves Mumbai from further environmental degradation. Yes, their livelihood is dependent on the 8,000 tonnes of waste that the megapolis spews out daily.

The realty market in Mumbai's slums might be growing but it does not necessarily leave the city's poor and marginalized better off. Activists and advocates say buying slum tenements is a risky proposition because of a host of reasons.

MUMBAI: Even as the Gujarat police recently allowed the Ahmedabad rath yatra to proceed, the Mumbai police has prevented secular groups from organising poster exhibitions and private screenings of films on the Gujarat violence, claiming that this could create communal tension.

It’s a case of your vote being valid while your home is not.

Come Sunday, and Puneites will get a chance to see the performance of a group of children from ‘Dharavi Rocks’, which creates music out of waste material.

MUMBAI: Five persons, allegedly from the Chhota Rajan gang, were arrested near Sai Kiran building in Gorai, Borivli (west), on Monday and a huge cache of ammunition was recovered from them.

Ravi Poojari, an ex aide of Chhota Rajan said his mission was to eliminate both Dawood and Chhota Shakeel.

When Shobha Murthy, founder of a Navi Mumbai-based NGO, needed help enrolling slum kids in private schools under the RTE, she turned to Kailash Satyarthi for help.

MUMBAI: Employees of Mumbai's call centres - those with the cushy pay packets, back problems and hate calls-can now turn to the 'Young Professionals Collective' for work-related problems.

MUMBAI: Gangster Omprakash Singh was allegedly strangled by 13 inmates of the Chhota Rajan gang in Nashik jail on November 23 as he was planning to stage a major revolt against the don, according to police sources.

BANGALORE: Three members of the notorious Chhota Rajan gang were shot dead by the Mumbai police with the assistance of their Bangalore counterparts near HAL Airport here on Wednesday night in an ``encounter''.

As the problem of open burning rages across the city despite complaints, urban local bodies like BMC are coming under greater scrutiny for solid waste management and redressal mechanisms. Introducing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in the kitchens of the poor under a government scheme is one solution that has helped reduce burning of biomass like wood and coal to an extent in recent years. However, as waste continues to swell in volume, its disposal remains a challenge.

Some tenements in Mumbai slums sell for as much as Rs 15,000 per sq ft while rents for the humble hovels can soar as high as Rs 10,000 a month.

They hit headlines for all the wrong reasons. In fact, most people think they're bad news. Period. TOI probes why the police's stock is at an all-time low with law-abiding citizens