In the lanes and back streets of Bandra-Khar-Santacruz, if you see a six-storey housing society building demolished and replaced by an 18-storey tower, it’s not magic. Nor is it illegal.Some clauses in the city’s development control regulations can bring great windfalls for builders redeveloping housing societies. If the builder constructs tenements for project-affected persons within…
Kolhapur: Chief Justice of India Bhushan Gavai on Sunday asked the Bombay high court to submit a proposal as early as possible to convert the newly inaugurated high court circuit bench in Kolhapur into a permanent bench. “I still have three-and-a-half months left in the CJI office, and this is a fairly long period,” he…
Mumbai: The city has tightened its crackdown on drunk driving. Between April and August, the traffic police recommended cancellation of 1,117 licences, of which the RTO suspended 884 for six months.Since April, the police have been registering FIRs in drunk driving cases in addition to filing chargesheets in court and seeking fines. They have also…
Mumbai: Not a single housing society in Mumbai on govt land has opted for self-redevelopment, information obtained under the Right to Information Act has revealed.There are 3,000 cooperative housing societies in Mumbai city and suburbs on land leased either by the govt or collector’s land, called occupancy class II. Salil Rameshchandra, president of the Federation…
The commission set up under the Commission of Inquiry Act to conduct a judicial inquiry into Pune’s Ruby Hall Clinic kidney scam has so far been given five extensions. As per the revised schedule, the state govt has asked the commission led by Justice Saneep Shinde to wind up the proceedings before Dec 31, 2025….
Mumbai: India, said Fields medallist Manjul Bhargava, must fall in love with mathematics again. Not as a “drudgery of formulas” but as an act of “exploration.”Bhargava, Canadian by nationality but of Indian origin, believes classrooms need an overhaul—”experimental, playful,” he said, with teachers “trained” to spark curiosity. Speaking to TOI on the sidelines of the…
Mumbai: Considering that the accused was deprived of her 7-year-old daughter, who is in a children’s home, as she and her husband have been in jail for three years, a sessions court recently granted bail to the 38-year-old homemaker accused of kidnapping a child in 2013.The kidnapped girl was rescued and reunited with her parents…
Mumbai: A day after Rohan Valvi, 14, from Adarsh Nagar in the Marol area died during Dahi Handi celebrations, local residents recounted the tragic sequence of events that unfolded. The deceased, the middle child in a family of three, was the son of a carpenter.Mahadev, a local from the area, said Valvi reached the Govinda…
Mumbai: A metropolitan magistrate’s court has rejected the police closure report giving a clean chit to the Anchor Group in a cheating and forgery case linked to a redevelopment project. The complaint was lodged by Shreenathji Group, partners with Anchor Group in projects since 2010. They fell out in 2017 when Shreenathji faced financial troubles….
Mumbai: The city’s wealthiest Ganesh mandal, GSB Seva Mandal, King’s Circle, has procured record insurance worth Rs 474.46 crore this season. The previous year’s policy was Rs 400 crore. The increase is owing to the increased valuation of its gold and silver items, and the induction of more volunteers and priests.The mandal does not reveal…
