Mumbai News Live Updates: Sameer Wankhede appears before CBI in cruise drug bust bribery case

The Railway Board has asked the Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) to procure 238 Vande Metro air-conditioned rakes for suburban network under Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) with stringent maintenance equipment for 35 years.

Preliminary seat-sharing talks for the Lok Sabha elections next year have started between Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) partners, and Shiv Sena (UBT) will contest all 19 seats where it has sitting MPs, said party MP Sanjay Raut on Friday.

The cyber police in Mumbai arrested 12 persons who were part of an interstate gang involved in duping people of lakhs by asking them to perform various tasks on online, an official said on Friday. The cyber police busted the racket while probing different cases of fraud registered at different police stations, he said. In one such case registered at East Region Cyber police station, the complainant was duped of more than Rs 10 lakh between January 10 and February 10 this year, the official said.

Former NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede on Saturday appeared before the CBI here for questioning in a case in which he is accused of demanding Rs 25 crore bribe from superstar Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan in the Cordelia cruise 'drug bust' case, an official said. Wankhede reached the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) office in Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) around 10.15 am, he said. Talking to media persons while entering the agency office, he just said "Satyamev Jayate" (truth alone triumphs). (PTI)

One of the crucial stretches of Samruddhi Mahamarg bridging the Sahyadri valley is expected to be special for more than one reason. Other than boasting the country’s widest and Maharashtra’s longest road tunnels, it will give motorists “a breathtaking view” of the Sahyadri ranges on viaduct-II, which has been built over a dense forest area overlooking mountains, said officials. While the mega tunnels were completed in early 2021 in a record time of two years, with 1. 2km viaduct-II, “Package-14” that connects the 13. 1km-long Nashik’s Pimpri Sadroddin to Thane’s Vashala Budruk is complete.

Maharashtra on Friday reported 81 new cases of coronavirus and a single casualty due to the infection that raised the tally to 81,68,737 and toll to 1,48,549, an official from the state health department said. As per the health department's report, the state currently has 558 active cases after 119 patients recovered in the last 24 hours taking the recovery count to 80,19,669.Maharashtra had on Thursday logged 72 new cases and a single fresh fatality.

A boundary wall around the newly declared 812 acres of reserved forest in Aarey Colony will be built by the state public works department. The 1. 9km wall will separate the reserved forest from the rest of the Aarey Colony. The reserved forest area is already in the physical possession of the forest department that has posted four guards and a forester to guard the reserved forest from encroachment.

Twelve men were arrested by the cyber police in separate cases of ‘like and earn’ task frauds where three citizens were duped of Rs 62 lakh collectively.The accused were involved in creating fake documents for starting bogus business entities and opening bank accounts in the names of these companies. These bank accounts were then used to rake in money defrauded from vulnerable citizens. Some of the accused were also involved in remitting the ill gotten money to Hong Kong and Dubai.

Days after MMRDA invited applications from consultants to carry out a preliminary study on traffic impact and environmental aspects for the proposed 'Mumbai Eye' project at Bandra Reclamation, local residents led by BJP MLA Ashish Shelar opposed it.

Some of Mumbai University's final-year LLB students, who were marked absent in Semester V exams, may now be compelled to re-appear for it as the university says it is unable to trace their answersheets.While the exams concluded in December, results were announced in March-end. But the results for this bunch of students were announced a few days later in April and they were found marked absent in one or more papers.

The city's lucrative real estate market has always been a safe haven for Bollywood bigwigs to invest their millions and buy marquee properties.The hunky heartthrob Salman Khan is one of them. TOI has learned that the Khans (Salman's family) plan to build a hotel on a prime, sea-facing plot at Carter Road, Bandra.