Aman Shaikh

As students celebrate their JEE results, the success story of Aman Shaikh, who lives in a tiny chawl room in Mustafa Bazaar, Byculla, stands out as an inspiration. Shaikh beat all odds to secure a coveted IIT seat with an all-India rank of 1,023.

A 20-year-old youth suffered severe burns after he allegedly climbed the rooftop of a train and came in contact with an overhead wire in Jogeshwari on Monday. GRP officers said he was found lying injured on the ground and there are no witnesses to how he suffered the burns.

Two persons, including a teenager, drowned in a rainwater-filled well in Nalasopara on Thursday morning.

Following the recent spate in desecration of religious symbols in the state, Goa’s artiste fraternity announced a peace rally scheduled to be held on July 16 at Lohia Maidan, Margao. Representatives of the state’s entertainment and tourism industry led by singer Hema Sardesai, appealed to the citizens of Goa to participate in the event in solidarity of communal harmony.

Two diploma engineering students were nabbed with 210 grams of mephedrone, worth around Rs 35,000, as they tried to speed past a Bandra bandobast in their car early on Sunday.

A 21-year-old man from Vejalpur did not have the money to fulfil his friend’s demand for gutka — so the furious friend stabbed him. The victim is Sewan Qureshi. His father, Ashrafali, said in his FIR filed on Thursday with Vejalpur police that his son is critical. Sewan was stabbed on Wednesday night and is being treated at SVP Hospital.

A week after a six-year-old boy died after drowning in the swimming pool of a resort in Virar, the owner and lifeguard were arrested by the police.

Police have arrested five college students, including three minors, who would ride their motorcycles and snatch gold chains in Mira Road and Bhayander.

According to the complaint with Dholka cops, Aviraj entered the canal to draw the sample but fell down. His classmate began shouting and people from nearby farms rushed to the spot, but could not trace Aviraj due to the heavy current.

The Bazarpeth police have arrested a customer and his five relatives for vandalising into showroom in Kalyan and forcefully robbing Rs 4,000 from the shop.

Super Transit Services, a company from Bengaluru, showcased what is billed to be the country’s first-ever LNG bus at the Agrovision expo here. There are plans to run the vehicle on Nagpur-Raipur and Nagpur-Jabalpur routes in coming weeks.

Other than the sweltering heat, commuters had to survive the near-total autorickshaw strike in the Mumbai metropolitan region on Monday. Most had to trudge up to railway stations or queue up for overcrowded buses as more than 97% three-wheelers stayed off roads; a total of seven lakh rickshaws were on strike across the state.