As civic officials are busy focusing on acquiring varied fauna to offer new attractions when the major revamp of the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan (Byculla Zoo) is complete, Bubble, the only 'single' the only Humboldt penguin at the zoo, must languish in a bubble of loneliness for another year or two before she is paired up with a mate. Zoo authorities confirmed to The Free Press Journal that the plan of procuring three more penguins this year has hit a roadblock and would take "some more time".
A Bandra consumer forum on Thursday ordered Coffee Day Global Ltd to pay Rs 10,000 to two customers who had filed a complaint against it after one of them found a dead cockroach in their cold coffee.
As the sit-in demonstration against CAA-NRC dubbed `Mumbai Bagh’, entered its fourteenth day on Saturday, the Mumbai police were handing out preventive notices under Section 149 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) to protesters entering Morland Road, Nagpada, warning that if any law and order situation were to erupt, they would be held responsible and arrested. Section 149 of the CrPC gives powers to the police to take measures to prevent cognisable offences.
After the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-Bombay) administration sent a circular on January 28 to all students warning them not to participate in any “anti-national, anti-social or any other undesirable activities”, over 70 students under the IIT Bombay for Justice group staged a protest, sticking cloths and tapes on their mouths and marched to the director’s office armed with placards, claiming the rules curb their right to protest and freedom of expression.
Following the statement of the students’ union, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences Teachers’ Association (TISSTA), Mumbai, released a statement on Saturday condemning the sedition charge against the student Urvashi (Kris) Chudawala.
Two days after senior photojournalist Ashish Raje was assaulted by two policemen at Morland Road, while covering the protest by women at Nagpada against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the two officers – Assistant Police Inspector Ghanshyam Borse and Probationary Police Sub Inspector Azim Shaikh – who were posted at Nagpada police station, were on Saturday transferred to the police’s Central Region control room as a disciplinary move. A departmental enquiry has also been initiated in the matter.
At least seven firefighters were injured while battling a blaze in a Navi Mumbai high-rise on Saturday morning. Officials said, the fire was triggered by an LPG cylinder explosion on the top two floors of of the 21-storey building. All the seven injured were admitted to the National Burns Centre (NBC) in Airoli, where three of them are in the intensive care unit (ICU).
The workers union of the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) is set to move the Bombay High Court, challenging the industrial court order that allowed the transport undertaking to operate conductorless buses in Mumbai.
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar surprised the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government by reading out the exact speech in the opening session of the budget in the state Assembly on Friday.
