Ulhasnagar: A rickshaw driver who went to mediate a dispute between friends, was brutally murdered in the early hours of Saturday. The deceased was identified as Sajid Sheikh, a resident of Varap village.According to the police, the altercation began on Friday evening when Sheikh’s friend, Sunny, had a dispute with Praveen Ujjainwal over an unknown…
Mumbai: The Supreme Court upheld a Bombay High Court order and declined to intervene against the well-reasoned ruling, which directed “selfish” residents of the top 18 floors of a 34-storey tower in Tardeo, south Mumbai, that lack an Occupancy Certificate (OC), to vacate their premises in two week. The HC had clarified that such members…
Mumbai: It will now be mandatory for all gymkhanas and clubs to grant permanent membership every year to five senior Group A govt officials from the Centre and state.In a GR issued on Wednesday, the state revenue dept laid out the rules and charges to be paid for becoming permanent members of these gymkhanas and…
MUMBAI: In the detailed 1,036-page judgment in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, the special NIA court, while acquitting all seven accused, has dismissed claims that senior officers from the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had directed one of the investigating officers to arrest RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in the case.Special judge A K Lahoti said the…
MUMBAI: NCP (Ajit Pawar faction) minority cell chief and national general secretary Syed Jalaluddin demanded that the state govt challenge the Special NIA court’s acquittal of all seven accused in the Malegaon 2008 terror blast case.“Just as the govt challenged the Bombay High Court’s acquittal of all 12 accused in the Mumbai train blasts 2006…
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court upheld a Bombay High Court order and declined to intervene against the well-reasoned ruling, which directed “selfish” residents of the top 18 floors of a 34-storey tower in Tardeo, south Mumbai, that lack an Occupancy Certificate, to vacate their premises in two weeks. The High Court clarified that such members would…
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a third supplementary chargesheet in the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank (PMC Bank) and Housing Development & Infrastructure Pvt Ltd (PMC-HDIL) loan fraud case. The recent chargesheet involves a part of an approximately 1,700 acre land parcels in Sindhudurg district, which the agency has already attached and requested the…
Nagpur: CM Devendra Fadnavis on Friday alleged the ‘Hindu terror’ narrative was a politically motivated conspiracy crafted by the Congress-led UPA govt in 2008 to malign Hindutva organisations, particularly the RSS and its ‘Vichar Parivar’ affiliates and build a false equivalence to ‘Islamic terrorism’, a term coined globally at that time. He said the Malegaon…
MUMBAI: A 20-year-old youth who went missing after drowning off Silver Beach in Juhu on Friday morning was found dead nearly 14 hours later, late in the night at 10.30 pm, by local fishermen and the Juhu Police.The deceased, identified as Vighnesh Murgesh Devendram, was declared brought dead at Cooper Hospital around 10.30 pm, according…
MUMBAI: A fourth-year student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay died after falling from a hostel terrace on the Powai campus early on Saturday, police said. The student belonged to the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Material Science. The incident occurred around 1am at Hostel 17. Campus authorities said the student was under…
