MUMBAI: Business inflation expectations in India have inched up modestly in October, even as companies continue to report subdued sales but brighter profit outlook, according to the latest round of the Business Inflation Expectations Survey (BIES) conducted by the Misra Centre for Financial Markets and Economy at IIM Ahmedabad.The one-year-ahead business inflation expectation rose 18…
Mumbai: The latest allotment list for private Ayurveda colleges in Maharashtra reveals that candidates from outside the state have secured multiple seats, despite 85% of them being reserved for domiciled students.At the top end of the merit table, among the first ten ranks, five are out-of-state candidates, a sign that seat-blocking—which is normally associated with…
Mumbai: Three monkeys enter Powai Cosmopolitan Housing Society almost every other day, spending hours inside environmental activist Anamika Sharma’s flat, exploring her home, nibbling on offerings, and then departing without disturbance. The gentle pair, named Nandini and Nandgram, and their playful baby, Nandu, prompted a fresh alarm over Mumbai’s vanishing forests.Sharma viewed the family’s repeated…
Mumbai: For the third day in a row, IndiGo left thousands of passengers stranded at check-in counters and boarding gates across the country for hours on end with no updates on their flight status. At the Mumbai airport, IndiGo cancelled 118 flights on Thursday, and most of its departures ran late by 2-3 hours or…
Ulhasnagar: In yet another case of fake digital arrest, a 62-year-old retired income tax officer was cheated of more than Rs 60 lakh by online fraudsters impersonating officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The victim, identified as Khushbu (name changed), resides in Ulhasnagar Camp-1, barely 50 metres from the Ulhasnagar police station. In…
Mumbai: The Sessions Court on Thursday acquitted an 81-year-old man booked in 1977 for an alleged attempt to murder after his then-girlfriend accused him of stabbing her with a knife at Nariman Point. The woman deposed 48 years later, on Nov 26, via video-conference facility and did not support the prosecution case during the trial…
Vasai: The VVCMC has formed an inquiry committee to investigate the lapses in last week’s Chlorine gas leak in Vasai West, which killed a 59-year-old man. The committee is headed by Dr. Dipak Sawant (Additional Municipal Commissioner), city engineer Pradeep Pachange, medical officer of health Bhakti Choudhary, assistant municipal commissioner (AMC) and an industry expert….
Mumbai: The Nehru Nagar police have booked the director of Roppen Transport Private Limited, the company operating the Rapido app, for allegedly running illegal bike-taxi services in Mumbai without any govt licence. The action follows a complaint filed on Dec 3 by the Regional Transport Authority (RTO). On Dec 2, an enforcement team conducted surprise…
Mumbai: The city’s air quality weakened again on Thursday, with the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) rising to 133, placing it in the ‘moderate’ category. Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) reported the worst readings at 232, slipping into the ‘poor’ zone. Other heavily polluted neighbourhoods included Bandra East (203), Ghatkopar (186), Shivaji Nagar (185), Chembur (180) and…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday granted bail to former Delhi University professor Hany Babu Tharayil (57), an accused in the Elgar Parishad Maoist-links case in Pune. The bail came five years after his arrest in the 2018 case. It was granted on the grounds of prolonged incarceration with trial completion not in sight….
