Mumbai

The Bombay HC on Wednesday constituted an expert committee to examine the health impact on human beings due to feeding pigeons in public Kabutarkhanas or pigeon feeding zones.

The historic Dadar Kabutarkhana was shut down under a civic health mandate. With all 51 Kabutarkhanas ordered closed, religious groups demand alternatives while experts cite serious infection risks from pigeon waste exposure.

The Bombay High Court raised concerns over Maharashtra's plan to allow over 7,000 large Ganesh idols in natural water bodies. The court asked the state to consider immersing idols up to 8 feet in artificial tanks to reduce environmental harm.

The Bombay High Court has acquitted all 12 accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, citing lack of reliable evidence and weak prosecution. The verdict comes nearly a decade after some were sentenced to death and life imprisonment.

Nearly two and a half years after first-year IIT Bombay student Darshan Solanki died by suicide, the long-delayed trial against the main accused, Armaan Khatri, is finally set to begin

Three tunnel boring machines critical for Mumbai–Ahmedabad bullet train's underground section are stuck at a Chinese port, raising concerns of delay. The government has involved the Ministry of External Affairs, as the machines are vital for tunneling beneath Thane Creek.

Mukesh Ambani announced an unconditional grant of Rs 151 crore to the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, from where he graduated in the 1970s.

MMRCL MD Ashwini Bhide took to X (formerly Twitter) to call out local news outlet Mid-day for its misleading report on measures undertaken for under-construction sites in monsoons.

The families of Hamid Sheikh and Ram Naval Gupta, who live in Ganpat Patil's slums in Dahisar West area, attacked each other after an argument broke out between them.

The two men, identified as Abdullah Faiyaz Shaikh alia Diaperwala and Talha Khan, were intercepted by the Bureau of Immigration at the Mumbai International Airport T2 when they tried to return to India from Jakarta, Indonesia, where they had been hiding out. The NIA team then took them into custody and arrested them.