One of the world’s most celebrated pianists will perform one of the repertoire’s most majestic works in Mumbai on Jan 16. As with Lang Lang’s last performance in the city 16 years ago, the concert sold out within hours of the box office opening. Back then, the anticipation was for a wunderkind feted for his…
NAVI MUMBAI: Newly elected Shiv Sena corporator from Khopoli Manasi Kalokhe’s husband Mangesh (45) was hacked to death with swords, sickle, and an axe when he was returning home on bike after dropping his son to school on Friday morning. Mangesh was a former corporator from Khopoli.Khopoli police have registered an FIR against 10 people,…
MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Friday, in an interim order, granted relief to actor Shilpa Shetty in her plea to restrain several known and unknown social media platforms, artificial intelligence (AI)-linked entities, and others, including all unknown persons, from posting manipulated or morphed images and videos of her, alleging violation of her “personality rights.”The HC…
Mumbai: A sessions court convicted and sentenced a 38-year-old mother to 10 years imprisonment for trafficking her 17-year-old daughter for the purpose of sex work, noting that her actions warranted no leniency. She was also charged with seven-year terms for violations of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and three years under the Juvenile Justice Act….
Mumbai: Police in the last one week arrested nine people, including three women, and seized heroin worth Rs 33.8 crore. On Dec 16, cops arrested two persons and seized heroin worth Rs 1.3 crore. During investigation, police arrested more people and seized more drugs. One of the arrested women was caught from Ajmer in Rajasthan….
Mumbai: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has mandated stricter labelling rules for solvent manufacturers in response to the contaminated cough syrup tragedies that killed at least 25 children in Madhya Pradesh in Oct. The new guidelines, issued to state FDAs are to prevent industrial chemicals from entering the medicinal supply chain.The earlier deaths…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Friday alleged that a former Mumbai police officer, who is also deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde’s ‘sharpshooter’, is linked to the drug manufacturing unit in Jawali, Satara, that was busted earlier this month. Mumbai Police’s crime branch had busted the drug manufacturing unit operating from a farm…
MUMBAI: The Centre recently sought dismissal of a woman’s petition for the transfer of her late son’s sperm sample for IVF use saying he had not consented to its posthumous use.His mother petitioned the Bombay high court earlier this year seeking permission to access and transfer the semen sample preserved in a cryobank. Her son…
Mumbai: A model has lodged a police complaint against a neighbour from Malad for duping her to the tune of Rs 35 lakh. Bangur Nagar Police are probing the case further.According to the FIR, the model was in an intimate relationship with a man from the merchant navy but he severed ties with her after…
Navi Mumbai: A 30-year-old woman was arrested by Kalamboli police for smothering her six-year-old daughter because she did not want a girl child as she desired a son. She was also angry as her daughter did not speak properly and only spoke in Hindi.Rajendra Kote, senior inspector of Kalamboli, informed that the accused woman, identified…
