Angry Over Road Mess, Dutt’s Neighbours Stall Shooting of His Biopic
You may be rich and famous, but there is no escaping the fury of crossed Mumbai commuters stuck in traffic chaos during morning rush hours.
Angry Pali Hill residents stalled the shooting of filmmaker Raju Hirani’s biopic on Sanjay Dutta starring Ranbir Kapoor for a good 40 minutes on Wednesday morning after the crew ended up blocking the road in the upscale locality, triggering a massive traffic jam that commuters were in no mood to brave.
The local residents also claimed that the film’s crew members had badly littered the road, leaving it unfit for use.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
MMRDA Brings Cheer to Bars, Wine Shops
Around 500 bars and wine shops along the Western Express Highway and the Eastern Express Highway, whose businesses have been affected following the Supreme Court order last month banning alcohol within 500 mt of state and national highways, have something to cheer about.
The government has received a proposal from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), seeking to take over the two highways from the Public Works Department (PWD). If approved, the two stretches will be de-notified and cease to be considered as ‘highways’.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
2.5 Acre Car Park at Sanjay Gandhi National Park?
Next time you’re at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, instead of spotting a leopard, you may just spot a Jaguar. A car park may come up on a 2.5-acre chunk of land inside the park, if the state forests department has its way.
The department has sought the BMC’s No Objection Certificate (NOC) to dereserve and carve out the plot from the forest zone. The BMC administration has put the proposal before the civic General Body which will decide the issue in its meeting later this week. Officials say the car park is a necessity as there is not enough space to park cars right now. The SGNP’s proposal claims that no trees would be cut for the project since they had identified a barren patch of land for the car park.
The BMC claims that it had invited objections and suggestions from citizens in August last year, but did not receive a single response. “At the moment, there is space to park just 400 cars, which is not enough.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
Elderly Woman Duped of Rs 42 Lakh in Scam by Facebook ‘Friend’
A 72-year-old Vile Parle resident is the latest victim of online fraud, losing Rs 41.94 lakh between January and March this year. A suspected fraudster befriended the woman on Facebook and lured her with the promise of a cash gift of £2 million (around Rs 16 crore) during his 'visit' to Mumbai in January .
For three months, the victim continued transferring money to three different accounts named by the fraudster. It was only on March 27, after the victim paid the final sum of Rs 3 lakh to his account, did she realise she was being duped. Reacting to the complaint, cyber police at BKC immediately sent a team to Gandhinagar locality in New Delhi and arrested two people — Shabuddin Shaikh (23) and Gulzar Shaikh (24) —who came to withdraw Rs 3 lakh from the account.
The duo was produced in the Esplanade Court on Monday and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R K Deshpande remanded them to police custody till April 15.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
Kim Sharma Slams Newspaper for 'Personal Attack' With this Brilliant Response
After refuting reports of her alleged broken marriage with Ali Punjani, Bollywood actress Kim Sharma has lashed out at a publication for making a 'personal attack' against her.
In her latest post on Instagram, Kim Sharm wrote, "Bullying is not in my #DNA. Never been one, will never stand for one. I get marketing, I get sensationalism, I get that you NEED to sell subscriptions and get website clicks- but personal attacks are petty. Ain't nobody got time for that. No damsel in distress vibes here, pick on someone your own size #SmallPeople #SmallMinds #ShameOnYou"
(Source: Mid-Day)
9-Year-Old Jumps Out of Auto, Escapes 65-Year-Old Kidnapper
A nine-year-old girl managed to escape from the clutches of a 65-year-old auto rickshaw driver who was trying to kidnap her yesterday, by jumping out of his moving vehicle in Thane. The driver, a neighbour of the child, has been arrested by the Kapurbawdi police station.
According to the police, the child, a Std II student of a school in Thane, lives at Manorama Nagar in Thane (West). In her statement to the police, she said that on Tuesday, around 11.30 am, she was headed to a shop nearby to buy samosas, when the auto driver, Dev Sharan Yadav, called out to her. “Yadav told her he would drop her back home. When the girl refused to get into his auto, he dragged her into his vehicle and sped off towards Mumbra,” said S Pawar, sub-inspector, Kapurbawdi police station.
(Source: Mid-Day)
Bhajji Hits Winning Runs as Sunrisers Hyd Lose First IPL 10 Match
Mumbai Indians dominated with both bat and ball to defeat Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by four wickets in an Indian Premier League (IPL) clash at the Wankhede Stadium on Wednesday.
Choosing to field on winning the toss, Mumbai restricted SRH to 158/8 in 20 overs and then achieved the target in 18.4 overs losing six wickets along the way.
Nitish Rana scored a 36-ball 45 which included three boundaries and two sixes. He produced a 48-run partnership along with Krunal Pandya which came off 21 balls. Pandya scored 37 runs off 20 deliveries which included three boundaries and an equal number of sixes.
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Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro: Can’t Massacre Environment: Bombay HC
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) and asked it to prove it did not damage a children’s park while executing its Mumbai Metro Line III project.
A division bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice G S Kulkarni observed that environment cannot be massacred in the name of development.
“We understand that the Metro project is of utmost importance as it will ease the common man’s woes but you (MMRC) cannot massacre environment in the name of development. There should not be callousness and recklessness in damaging something that cannot be restored,” the court observed.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
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