According to information received by the disaster management control room at 5.48 am, the accident occurred near the Kharegaon toll naka when the victim, riding a motorcycle from Thane towards Nashik, lost control of his vehicle and fell under the rear tyres of a container that was passing close by

Despite winning 118 seats in the civic body, the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is likely to head only eight of Mumbai’s 18 ward committees; ward committees, which function as ward-level equivalents of the standing committee, enable closer engagement with local communities