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Mumbai: Railways to fence off Badlapur platform, commuters demand clarity
Railways says move needed to facilitate six new staircases, but commuters say abrupt implementation could lead to chaos. “The decision to fence off the Badlapur home platform will help decongest the island platform, which will not be overburdened
26 March,2025 07:34 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
CR to operate traffic and power block on March 29, check details
The Central Railway's Mumbai Division will operate special traffic and power block on the up and down south-east lines, for de-launching of 4 girders of existing Road Over Bridges
25 March,2025 05:43 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Badlapur case: Want to challenge entire matter in sessions court, govt to HC
The government said that the sessions court has not extended its earlier order keeping in abeyance the findings of the magistrate's inquiry report
19 March,2025 04:40 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI
Four arrested for bid to extort Rs 50 lakh from former councillor in Thane
The complainant is a former councillor from the Kulgaon Badlapur Municipal Council. According to the police, he had received an objectionable photos of himself with a woman
17 March,2025 11:45 AM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
Karjat on fast track with twin rail boost
As part of the push for the PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan, the Badlapur-Karjat 3rd and 4th line expansion project was evaluated on Friday at the 89th meeting of the Network Planning Group, chaired by the joint secretary of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)
17 March,2025 08:21 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
Karjat-Badlapur new rail lines get a push
The 32.460 km-long brownfield project addresses increasing passenger and freight congestion along the Mumbai-Pune-Solapur-Wadi-Chennai corridor. This project will benefit the towns of Badlapur, Vangani, Shelu, Neral, Bhivpuri, and Karjat
15 March,2025 08:42 PM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
Four teenage boys drown in Ulhas river in Thane after playing Holi
The children, in the 15-16 age group and Class X students, had ventured into the river after celebrating Holi and got swept away when its water level rose suddenly
14 March,2025 10:13 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
Badlapur encounter
Why no FIR when report indicted cops responsible for accused's death? HC
A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Neela Gokhale on Thursday reserved its order on the issue of whether an FIR ought to be lodged by the government, pursuant to an inquiry report submitted by a magistrate holding five policemen responsible for the death of the accused while in custody
13 March,2025 08:57 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Badlapur encounter
FIR must after parents raised suspicion in letter, amicus curiae tells Bombay HC
Accused Akshay Shinde was arrested in August last year for allegedly sexually assaulting two minor girls inside the toilet of a school in which he was an attendant, and he was killed in an alleged Badlapur encounter on September 23 while being being taken from Taloja prison for questioning
10 March,2025 07:14 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Badlapur sexual assault case
'Sessions court order keeping in abeyance report on cops over encounter wrong'
The government, in its application, said the sessions court order was "wrong and illegal" and that the judge had erred in keeping in abeyance the findings of the magistrate report
05 March,2025 06:42 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent