Mumbai: In the money laundering case linked to the Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, a special court granted permission to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to proceed with the sale and auction of vehicles worth Rs 46.50 lakh confiscated from fugitive economic offender Nirav Modi. The order, pronounced on November 19, allows the ED to auction…
Mumbai: Investigations into the shooting of Charkop-based developer Freddy D’Lima have so far found that it could be the result of a financial dispute between D’Lima and one of the arrested accused. The five accused were produced before the Esplanade court on Saturday and remanded in crime branch custody until November 27.On Nov 19 afternoon,…
Thane: The Thane unit of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Saturday alleged discrepancies in the draft list of voters and ward boundaries released by the Thane corporation ahead of the civic polls. The party blamed the manner in which the election department finalised the wards and urged senior officials to look into the alleged…
Thane: A Mumbai-based passenger association has written to the railway board in New Delhi to introduce an insurance system for passengers using suburban season tickets, considering the high volume of mishaps and the subsequent trauma faced by surviving victims and families of railway-related mishaps.Diva-based activist Ananda Patil of the Mumbai-based Marathi Ekikaran Samiti has pointed…
Navi Mumbai: Resentment is brewing among residents over the steady takeover of main roads, internal lanes and even newly widened stretches by unchecked, and illegal parking, negating the very purpose of road expansion and increasing traffic to the point of inconvenience in the satellite city of Navi Mumbai. Also known as the ‘city of 21st…
Mumbai: One would imagine Mumbai’s rental pressure to have eased by now, given the redevelopment spree that started soon after the pandemic, with new towers sprouting and a burst of fresh stock. Instead, the opposite has happened. As one housing society after another signs redevelopment agreements, actual rental supply has shrunk, and prices have shot…
Mumbai: A Kandivli couple’s joy at having twins after IVF treatment was tinged with sadness as their boys were diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) during Diwali when they were barely a month old.Their case points to a worrisome pattern of drug-resistant TB in infants. The state-run JJ Hospital’s NICU, where the twins—possibly the youngest in…
Mumbai: Just 24% or 44 of the 183 orders issued by the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC) in the past 12 years have been accepted by the state govt, reveals a recent reply to a Right to Information (RTI) Act query filed by an advocate.“The remaining 76% of the total orders are still pending…
Navi Mumbai: The post mortem report of the death of a 90-year-old widow Hirabai Janardhan Joshi on Nov 9 at her house in Uran taluka, had stated that the cause was due to multiple body injuries owing to assault with a hard object. Uran police had initially lodged an accidental death case, and then registered…
Navi Mumbai: Citi India’s support helped inaugurate 10 St Judes centres in Navi Mumbai to provide accommodation to underprivileged families of children undergoing cancer treatment. The residential units are housed within the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Kharghar, which is affiliated with Tata Memorial Centre. The 12-storey, 234-unit complex is…
