Mumbai: A day after it directed the Maratha quota activists to vacate Mumbai’s streets and occupied spaces, the Bombay high court on Tuesday cautioned the agitators that consequences could follow for flouting its orders. In the morning, an HC bench set a deadline for 3pm on Tuesday for protestors to leave Azad Maidan but later…
Mumbai: A 31-year-old businessman has lodged a police complaint against two men who told him they were cops and extorted Rs 10.3 lakh in cash at Bandra terminus on Monday. GRP filed an FIR against the duo and are verifying whether they were policemen.The complainant, a Malad resident who has been running a garment shop…
Mumbai: A new short treatment regimen, BPaL-M, has “cured” 9 people of a deadly form of tuberculosis in six months. The other treatment options for drug-resistant TB could stretch from 18 to 24 months.Apart from PSU staffer Vishwanath, 35, (name changed), three patients who were under treatment at BMC-run Shatabdi Hospital in Govandi and five…
Mumbai: Taking cognisance of a complaint alleging special treatment given to VIPs visiting the famous Lalbaugcha Raja pandal and non-VIP devotees being subjected to ill-treatment, the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC) on Monday issued notices to the mandal’s secretary, Maharashtra chief secretary, BMC commissioner, and Mumbai police commissioner asking them to explore alternative arrangements…
Mumbai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested the proprietor of an import company for allegedly evading customs duty amounting to around Rs 7.7 crore by misdeclaring and undervaluing Chile-origin inshell walnuts. DRI officials said an investigation revealed that importer Gayatri Exports, in collusion with Dubai-based intermediary Rasheeda Foodstuff Trading LLC, deliberately suppressed true…
Kalyan: After spending five years in jail, a 28-year-old technician has been acquitted by a Kalyan sessions court in a sexual assault case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Special POCSO judge V. N. Patrawale ordered the release of Altaf Khan, citing lack of credible evidence and serious lapses in the…
Vasai: While the dust of the Virar building collapses is settling down, an illegal building in Nalasopara was evacuated due to cracks in its pillars and subsequently a building adjacent to it was also evacuated, on Tuesday. Saba Apartment in Rehmat Nagar, Nalasopara east, developed cracks in one of its pillars, post which the police…
Mumbai: The Chandivli Citizens Association plans to carry out a protest on Sept 14 against the delay in the completion of the 90-feet Development Plan (DP) road connecting Chandivali Farm Road and Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR). Mandeep Singh Makkar, founder of Chandivli Citizens Welfare Association (CCWA), wrote to the municipal commissioner stating that residents are…
Mumbai: The state govt has doubled the honorarium paid to booth level officers from the current Rs 6,000 per month to Rs 12,000. This is being done as per the orders of the Election Commission of India and will come into force from Sept 1, 2025. The honorarium for Booth Level Supervisors has been increased…
Navi Mumbai: A Sena (UBT) branch head, Santosh Sawant (38) was among the three killed in a road mishap in Mhasla taluka, Raigad on Sunday. Sawant was driving an autorickshaw carrying six others after attending a Kunbi community meeting in the wake of the Maratha reservation quota demand. The auto met with a suspected brake…
