Mumbai: Trump may have recently lowered duties on Indian spices but centuries before US tariffs, Roman-occupied England taxed Indian pepper heavily. The largest import from India to the Roman Empire, pepper was known as ‘Black Gold’ or ‘Yavana Priya’ (loved by the Romans), a precious commodity paid for with large quantities of precious metals. To…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court Friday granted permission to BMC for a proposed Coastal Road North—a 26.3 km Versova–Bhayander DP (Development Plan) Road project—that would require a maximum of 45,000-odd mangroves to be felled. The HC was hearing BMC’s plea for the court’s approval for the project since it impacts mangroves. Accepting as salutary a…
Thane: The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has announced an immediate and urgent 50% water cut to the city on Friday over the next three days to necessitate repair works on a main supply line that was damaged during ongoing work undertaken by Mahanagar Gas Ltd at Kalyan Phata on Thursday.This is the second time in…
Thane: Thane’s MNS has alleged that trees in Thane regional mental health hospital are being discreetly killed using chemicals to clear the space, paving way for the vast area to be handed over to private developers. Close on the heels of the NCP-SP and green activists taking up the issue, the MNS has now jumped…
Mumbai: About a third of the resident doctors in state-run medical schools borrow money as they don’t receive their stipends on time. Every 10th resident doctor works in “genuine fear” and 50% of them suffer from chronic stress.This picture of stressed, “broke” doctors, who have an 80-hour work week in unsafe places, has emerged from…
Thane: Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) chairman Siddhesh Kadam on Thursday took cognisance of the unusually high 200+ AQI recorded at the Upvan monitoring unit in the last week of Nov and sought reasons for the numbers before directing the local MPCB and TMC officials to immediately take corrective action. The Upvan air quality monitoring…
Mumbai: Eleven months after Supreme Court set aside a March 2022 judgment of Bombay high court and ruled that nearly six acres of Century Cotton Textile Mill land at a prime location in Worli belonged entirely to BMC, the civic body has moved to monetise the property. The BMC has floated a tender to auction…
Navi Mumbai: The chief officer of Matheran hill station municipal council, Rahul Ingale has lodged a complaint after his New Panvel sector-14 residence was broken into. The unidentified thieves had decamped with gold jewelry worth Rs 2.5 lakh. Ingale’s family members were staying in the house till Aug 2025 and some household items had been…
Mumbai: A 41-year-old multinational technology company employee from Chembur is the latest victim of cyber fraud. The cyber fraudster was duped of ₹86.85 lakh in an online investment scam operated through WhatsApp groups, fake trading apps, and multiple bank accounts. According to the FIR filed at East Region Cyber Police, the victim received a message…
Mumbai: Bombay high court has upheld enhanced compensation for a Borivli (E) resident who was left permanently disabled after a May 2013 road accident. Justice Neela Gokhale on Thursday endorsed the Rs 1.10 crore revised compensation awarded by Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Mumbai, and increased it by Rs 10 lakh for ‘pain and suffering and…
