There was art before him and after him, and they were not the same,” wrote Time Magazine’s art critic Robert Hughes of the 17th century European Master widely regarded as an innovator of light for his radical use of the chiaroscuro, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, or simply—Caravaggio. In what is being hailed as a defining…
Mumbai: Holding that criminal proceedings can’t arm-twist a suspect to recover an alleged fraud amount at the pre-trial stage, a sessions court cancelled a lower court’s condition of a Rs 10-lakh security deposit to grant bail in a Rs 22.8-crore cheating case. It also reduced the bail amount from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 1…
Mumbai: Two Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials have been suspended following allegations of illegal detention, bribe demand and misconduct in a case of duty evasion involving import of insecticides.The action was taken against senior intelligence officer Deepak Kumar and inspector Chetan Parikh after DRI received a complaint from the wife of a suspect who…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Tuesday set aside the state’s acquisition of a prime suburban private land in Goregaon East, which was declared a slum under the Slum Act. The HC drew the state’s attention to the responsibility that, it observed, the law imposes on state officials and the chief executive officer of the…
Thane: The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Thane crime branch have arrested two men and seized mephedrone (MD) worth Rs 44 lakh in separate cases this month so far. In the first case, on Oct 3, a tip-off led to a trap near Haji Jan Compound in Shilphata. Police arrested Mohammad Irfan Mohammad Hanif Shaikh (25)…
Mumbai: A man and an elderly woman were killed in separate accidents in Andheri on Monday. MIDC police have booked the two drivers.The first incident took place at 11am when Malwani resident Mariama Harijan (64), who works as a garbage collector at Mahakali Caves, was struck by a dumper while crossing the road near Chakala…
Mumbai: Bombay HC on Tuesday gave time to the state prosecutor to take instructions on details of other family members of actor Shilpa Shetty over her plea to fly abroad for a business trip. Shetty and husband Raj Kundra had sought quashing of a lookout notice in an alleged Rs 60-crore fraud case. Chief Justice…
Thane: Opposition parties have questioned Thane municipal commissioner Saurabh Rao over the deployment of a former assistant commissioner in the election branch and demanded his transfer before the local body elections.A delegation of local leaders from Shiv Sena (UBT), MNS, NCP (SP), and Congress met Rao late Monday following their joint rally. They pointed out…
Mumbai: State Election Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare on Tuesday clarified that adding new names, deleting names, or making other changes in the electoral roll does not come under the purview of the state election commission (SEC). He was speaking after holding a meeting with recognised political parties.Waghmare said that as per the provisions of the laws…
Mumbai: Taking a leaf out of the Chipko movement’s book on forest conservation from the 1970s, members of an environmental outfit from Vikhroli hugged trees along the Eastern Express Highway to protest their proposed felling for the Eastern Freeway expansion project. The group, Green Umbrella Organisation, had planted over 200 saplings along the stretch in…
