Nikhil Jadhav

Pimpri Chinchwad police on Sunday arrested three friends from Dighi who used to steal motorcycles for taking their girlfriends for long rides. The police have recovered 14 stolen motorcycles worth Rs 6 lakh from the trio.

Raghavan Nambirajan struck an unbeaten ton (150, 120b, 4x17, 6x7) to help HDFC Sports Club defeat Glenmark Pharma by a massive 228 runs in a ‘F’ Division clash of the Times Cricket Shield at New Hind on Wednesday.

After hitting the minibus, the tanker went on to collide with a car travelling behind the minibus.A couple travelling in the car was fortunate to receive only minor injuries.

Crime branch have seized around 60 duplicate cell phones of Samsung company and its accessories worth Rs 7 lakh from shops on Jail road here recently.

The city traffic personnel reunited three children with their parents on Monday.The kids, Kunal Sable (13), Nikhil Jadhav (14) and his brother Vishal (15) had come to Thane after running away from home on Monday.

With most of the ATMs in the city still running short of cash, the citizens continued to stand in long queues in front of all the banks on Tuesday.

Three 19-year-old youths were arrested and a 17-year-old minor boy was detained for allegedly robbing three persons in two separate incidents on Thursday night.

A 23-year-old woman accountant was allegedly raped in a moving car between Warje and Dehu Road on Sunday. Four men were arrested on Monday.

The Mumbai International Airport Ltd. (MIAL) has pointed out that vertical expansion is limited due to the building height restrictions of the airports authority of India (AAI) and that these restrictions has forced it to plan the buildings horizontally in most of the proposals that it submitted for approval to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDa), which is the special planning authority for the airport. This results in deficiencies in marginal open spaces on individual plots for which various condonations are requested. The Urban Development Department (UDD) has accepted the MIAL proposal to withdraw the condition for condonation thus allowing the developer to deficiency in open spaces without charging premium. The state has also allowed a floor space index (FSI) of 5 on plots within the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) notified area. FSI defines how much can be built on a plot for instance on a 10000sqm plot a developer can build 50000sqm with FSI 5. Of the 5 FSI 4 FSI is considered as global FSI on which no premium is charged. Premium is charged only for the additional 1 FSI. In September MIAL in a letter to the Urban Development Department sought a waiver of premium

Shashank Mistry took four for 40 and scored an unbeaten 35 to help Serco BPO Pvt Ltd record a first innings lead win over Western Railway Accounts in a Times Shield 'C' Division match on Monday.

The state urban development department has decided not to charge Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) a premium for the commercial development of the international airport land around Sahar.

The ongoing medical admission process in the state is again riddled with errors, some inexplicable, others blood-boiling, and causing immense hardship to aspirants and their families.