Mumbai: Large public land cannot be taken away under the guise of a slum scheme, said Justices Girish Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe of the Bombay high court on Wednesday. Expressing alarm at state’s largesse, the HC in an interim order observed that a prime state owned 33-acre sprawl—one and a half times the size of…
Mumbai: Vijay Kumar has taken charge as general manager of Central Railway from Oct 1, succeeding Dharam Veer Meena. An officer of the 1988 IRSME batch, Kumar earlier headed Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, where he oversaw a record production of 700 locomotives in 2024-25. In his 35-year career, he has served in Northern and North Western…
Mumbai: Sakinaka police on Thursday prevented a housing society in Chandivli, in Andheri (E), from burning an effigy of Ravan on the occasion of Dussehra. They said the members should have sought prior police permission, and instructed the housing society to arrange for fire brigade and ambulance services before performing the ritual.Around 6.30pm, senior police…
Mumbai: Mumbai witnessed many idol immersions on Thursday as part of the Durga visarjan festivities. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), a total of 1,574 idols were immersed across the city by 9 pm.Of these, 355 were Sarvajanik (community) idols, while 1,219 were Gharguti (household) idols. Civic officials said no untoward incident was reported…
Thane: The Thane railway police retrieved and returned jewellery lost in various train thefts since 2017 along the Thane railway section to their rightful owners. The collective value of the jewellery is over Rs 5 lakhs.“The police teams cracked all the cases and retrieved the stolen items following meticulous investigations that included surveillance and intelligence…
Mumbai: In a ruling underscoring the priority of investor protection, the designated court under the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (MPID) Act on Wednesday rejected a plea by the State Bank of India (SBI) seeking to appropriate over Rs 5.5 crore from a reserve fund to recover a loan from a company accused of…
Mumbai: Bombay HC on Tuesday ordered BMC to probe a road project in Mulund sanctioned in 2018 over a 19-year-old’s petition filed in 2024 alleging that bills and challans were inflated to misuse Rs 90 lakh of public funds.Ayman Shaikh, a former BMS student from Ghatkopar, filed queries under RTI Act during a college campaign…
Mumbai: Cyber police arrested a 27-year-old Prabhadevi resident Vishal Viras for providing mule bank accounts to cyber fraudsters. The fraudsters had lured a Thane businessman to invest in stock trading through an app and duped him of Rs 5.11 crore between April and Aug. Viras received Rs 18 lakh in last two months. WhatsApp chats…
Mumbai: In a case highlighting the risks faced by homebuyers due to stalled real estate projects, the Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC), Mumbai, directed a developer and its directors to refund over Rs 45 lakh along with Rs 15 lakh interest to a couple whose flat allotment was unilaterally cancelled in a housing…
Navi Mumbai: The demand to name the much-awaited Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) after the Project Affected People (PAP) leader, the late D B Patil, has gained significant momentum among local communities and politicians, including leaders from the ruling BJP, as the inauguration of the airport approaches. D B Patil, a prominent leader who championed…
