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Acting swiftly in the incident of threat calls to Ambani family, a team of Mumbai Police has detained a person from a block in Darbhanga, Bihar at midnight with help of Bihar Police. Team is on the way back to Mumbai along with the accused. Further investigation is being done in this matter.

Targeting the BJP's central leadership as much as the breakaway Shiv Sena faction led by Eknath Shinde in his Dussehra speech, Uddhav Thackeray said he did not need "lessons on Hindutva" from those who invoked it when it suited them.He recalled Shinde's stint as a cabinet minister in the coalition government that included Congress and NCP and referred to visits to Pakistan by PM Modi and L K Advani to underscore his point.

A 30-year-old pregnant woman was killed and her husband was injured after a speeding truck dashed their bike on Wednesday.The truck escaped after the accident, which took place around 12.45am near Worli naka, when deceased Rohini Pardesi and her husband Deepak were returning from Shivaji Park post devi darshan. READ MORE

The weather bureau, in its five-day forecast, for Mumbai, Thane and Palghar has indicated light rain /thundershowers to continue especially during evening hours till Sunday. The date for the official withdrawal of monsoon over Mumbai is October 8.

BMC has set its Mumbai beautification project rolling and issued a circular to allot a fund of Rs30. 5 crore to each of the 24 civic wards.It was decided that Rs10 cr ore will be immediately allotted to wards to begin work on priority. This is to be spent on improving road dividers, traffic islands, i llumination of popular junctions and improve ment of footpaths. While the estimated cost of the project is Rs1,705 crore, Rs500 crore has been allotted for road resurfacing. TOI had last week reported about tenders worth Rs200 cr ore being floated for resurfacing roads across the city.

Over a month and a half after the city police arrested a 56-year-old jewellery designer for allegedly issuing death threats to industrialist Mukesh Ambani, the Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital on Wednesday again received two calls from an unknown person. He threatened to blow up the hospital, Ambani’s Altamount residence Antilia and said that he would take the lives of several members of the Ambani family.

Observing that only because a girl attended school regularly and scored good marks in exams, it cannot be assumed that she was not a sexual assault victim, special Pocso Act court sentenced a 43-year-old ship engineer to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting his daughter over a five-year period.“The reaction of every victim may be different…So, the admissions of victim as regards her attending school regularly and securing good marks. . would not lead to infer that she is not a victim of sexual assault,” the special judge said.

Targeting the BJP’s central leadership as much as the breakaway Shiv Sena faction led by Eknath Shinde in his Dussehra speech, Uddhav Thackeray said he did not need “lessons on Hindutva” from those who invoked it when it suited them. He recalled Shinde’s stint as a cabinet minister in the coalition government that included Congress and NCP and referred to visits to Pakistan by PM Modi and L K Advani to underscore his point. “BJP leaders visited (then Pakistan PM) Nawaz Sharif on his birthday without invitation, to eat cake, and bowed before Jinnah’s grave. BJP raises the Hindutva issue to divert attention from poverty, unemployment and inflation,” he said. Referring to Shinde, he said, “You are now saying you joined hands with BJP for Hindutva and because Shiv Sena left Hindutva by joining hands with Congress and NCP, but when I took oath as CM, you also took oath as a minister and were in government for 2. 5 years. Why didn’t you raise your voice then? Did you forget your Hindutva then?”