Around 70 passengers on a Muscat-Chennai Air India flight faced a taxing time as their flight took off three hours late from the Gulf nation due to a runway problem there.

In a case of suspected suicide, a woman and her two children were found charred to death in their Panvel home on Monday morning.

A 20-year-old youngster has landed behind bars for randomly calling on unknown numbers and using vulgar language.

The Mulund police has detained three persons in connection with last week’s carjacking case where the driver of a tourist vehicle was mugged by the passengers he was ferrying.

The Mumbai crime branch has solved the murder case of an octroi collection agent, who was found dead in a jungle in Dahisar a few days ago, with the arrest of another octroi collection agent.

The BSE benchmark Sensex today ended flat with a small rise of 10 points as cautious investors indulged in profit-booking ahead of the monthly settlement in derivatives segment and the RBI monetary policy meet on May 3.

Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday rejected Maharashtra Feder-ation of University and College Teachers’ Organisation’s (Mfucto) demand to exempt over 2,000 teachers from giving the NET or SET

People from the middle and lower middle class will now get priority for getting the Unique Identification Card (UID), also called the Aadhar Card.

Taking note of malpractices at three UID enrollment centres in the city, the BMC has asked the respective companies to blacklist their operators in these centres.

Pursuant to a Bombay high court direction to the government to resolve the teachers’ strike at the earliest, minister of higher and technical education Rajesh Tope has invited the teachers to speak ab