Mumbai: While for most businessmen, their journey to attend conferences at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, began in boardrooms across the globe, for Farid Hamid Sama, an accused in the “mammoth” Rs 4,733 crore Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DHFL) fraud case, his journey to a conference in the Alpine city began in…
Mumbai: Filmmaker-director Vikram Bhatt, who was arrested by Rajasthan Police last month in an alleged Rs 30 crore cheating case, has landed in fresh legal trouble after Mumbai Police registered another case of fraud against him. A new FIR has been filed accusing Bhatt and his daughter, Krishna Bhatt, of cheating a Pune-based film investor…
Vasai: A man killed his wife by strangulating her in Naigaon on Friday night and called the police control room informing them about the murder. He stayed home, the address of which he had passed on to the police, and surrendered to the cops. The cops took him to the police station and registered a…
Thane: The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT), Thane, awarded Rs 92.53 lakh in compensation to the family of a Kalwa-based businessman who lost his life in a road accident involving a heavy trailer on the JNPT–Palaspe road in May 2020.The award was passed by Presiding Officer R V Mohite of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal,…
Mumbai: Nearly a week after two bullets were fired at two separate flats of an Andheri-based housing society, Oshiwara Police arrested actor Kamaal R Khan in the case on Saturday. Police recovered a German-made pistol and 21 rounds from the actor’s bungalow in Versova.The motive is still being probed. Police said Khan was checking the…
Mumbai: With the lottery for the reservation of the post of mayor completed, the BJP is likely to register all its BMC corporators on Tuesday.BJP Mumbai unit president Ameet Satam said a decision on whether the BJP and Shiv Sena should register together as a group or as separate groups is still being evaluated. The…
Thane: An NCP MLA’s nephew in jail for his alleged involvement in a Rs 1.5-crore rice procurement scam in Thane’s Shahapur taluka died in hospital due to brain-related complications.According to Khadakpada police, Harish alias Bhau Daroda, nephew of Shahapur’s NCP MLA Daulat Daroda, was lodged in Adharwadi Jail in Kalyan after being arrested in Dec…
Navi Mumbai: A 68-year-old retired civil engineer residing in Nerul was duped of Rs 4 crore in an online gold trading scam operated by a gang of cyber fraudsters, who lured the victim with high returns on his investment. The incident occurred between February and November last year.As the fraudsters claimed that their trading firm…
MUMBAI: The police have submitted a chargesheet against three foreign nationals working as celebrity make-up artists for outraging the modesty of a woman whose flat they had taken on rent. The chargesheet said the accused declined her permission to inspect her flat, in which they had illegally carried out alterations. When she tried to inspect…
MUMBAI: NGO Salaam Bombay Foundation’s preventive health education programme marked the 20th version of its flagship forum Bal Parishad. This initiative helps adolescents from deprived communities engage directly with policymakers and authorities, and bring positive change to their communities.Over 200 students from govt and govt-aided schools attended as did senior policymakers and administrators including state…
