Mumbai: The Islamic festival of Eid ul’ Azha or Bakr Eid will be celebrated Saturday. Festivities span three days. Eid ul’ Zuha, as it is also called, is celebrated on the tenth day of the pious month of Zulhijjah, the final month of the Islamic calendar. The holy Hajj pilgrimage is under way at this…
Mumbai: A magistrate’s court on Thursday convicted and sentenced two men, Raza Naqvi (38) and Varun Rana (41), to five years of rigorous imprisonment for their involvement in a sophisticated financial fraud amounting to Rs 68.22 crore against Shinhan Bank in 2020. Naqvi and Rana were found guilty of flouting norms by sending Rs 68…
Mumbai: A special court on Thursday convicted and sentenced a 56-year-old dismissed Vidhan Bhavan cashier to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for committing criminal misconduct and amassing assets worth Rs 15.95 lakh — over 100% disproportionate to his known sources of income between 1991 and 2004. During this period, the accused, Manoj Gaonkar, earned a…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said whatever the people of Maharashtra wish will happen, comments coming amid speculation over the possibility of an alliance between his party and the MNS led by his cousin Raj.Talking to reporters, the former CM said there was no confusion in the minds of workers of…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday summoned Bollywood actor Dino Morea for questioning next week in connection with an alleged Rs 65 crore Mithi river desilting scam, following raids at 15 locations, including the actor’s Mumbai residence, on Friday.The case involves accusations of inflated bills, fake work logs, and systematic diversion of public funds…
Pune: MSRDC wants to transform the Mumbai-Pune Expressway into a 10-lane superhighway to tide over traffic snarls and cater to the future demands of vehicular movement along the corridor, one of the busiest in the country.“This is an upgrade from our earlier proposal to make the expressway an eight-lane facility. The latest upgrade will cost…
Mumbai: The world of medical research is battling its own version of cyber frauds: predatory or ‘pseudo’ journals, deceptive publications that claim to be scholarly but rarely follow ethical publishing practices and seek hefty payment from authors.On Friday, Dr Himmatrao Bawaskar (75), a Mahad-based physician who won a Padma Shri in 2022 and is known…
MUMBAI: Noting that a person running an elevator company would surely be “rolling in money”, a sessions court increased the compensation for a domestic violence survivor from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 1 crore. The judge said a substantial enhancement was needed to compensate for the 20 years of torture, humiliation and economic abuse the…
Vasai: The accident site where former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry lost his life will now be marked as a ‘go-slow and no-overtaking zone’ — measures being proposed only after the completion of a Rs600 crore white-topping project on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad National Highway (NH48).Ironically, this high-risk stretch — known to locals as a “black spot”…
Mumbai: Observing that if this court exercises discretion in favour of applicant it will give a wrong message to society, a sessions court on Monday rejected the bail plea of advocate Vinaykumar Khatu, who is accused of defrauding a Delhi-based 74-year-old woman, a client, of Rs 2.57 crore by allegedly presenting her with forged orders…
