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MUMBAI: Mumbai Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged irregularities in the award of contracts worth Rs 12,024 crore issued by the city civic body in the past has registered three Preliminary Enquiries (PE), an official said on Monday.

Rafiq Tamboli’s wife continues to search for answers two years after her truck driver husband was stopped by vigilantes.

The latest call follows a string of hoax threat calls received over the previous week, warning of a potential terror strike in Mumbai. Read more on The Hindu

MUMBAI: A labourer was electrocuted while cleaning a drain in suburban Santacruz in Mumbai on Sunday, a fire official said.

Seventy-eight people are still unaccounted for since the landslide hit Irshalwadi village on Wednesday night in Raigadh district, nearly 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Mumbai.

MUMBAI: With the search and rescue teams recovering four more bodies from the debris, the death toll in the landslide at Irshalwadi hamlet in Maharashtra's Raigad district reached 26 on Saturday, an official said.

Belagavi's Ashok Venkatesh Deshpande, a Gandhian and social worker, passed away after a brief battle with cancer. He dedicated his life to serving the poor and marginalised, and was involved in anti-liquor picketing, blind belief eradication and running pre-schools. He was trained by Mumbai-based Gandhian Krishna Das Shah and was…

MUMBAI: Ace pacer Jasprit Bumrah, who has been out of action since September last year due to a serious back injury, is now fit and could return to international cricket in the three-match T20I series in Ireland (Aug 18-23) next month.

Following an overnight pause, rescue efforts resumed at the landslip-affected Irshalwadi village in Maharashtra’s Raigad district. The search and rescue team of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) recovered six more bodies — three male and three female — from the debris, taking the toll to 22.

The Opposition said Mumbai’s guardian Ministers setting up offices in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation headquarters has set a wrong precedent and is an act of encroachment of rights of civic bodies. The issue was raised in the Maharashtra Assembly by Nationalist Congress Party’s Jayant Patil.

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