MUMBAI: In a fresh twist to the escalating language row in Maharashtra, social media influencer and entrepreneur Rajshree More on Wednesday filed a fresh FIR at the Amboli police station, citing threats she has received over the last two days — allegedly not just from anonymous sources online, but also from within the film industry.This…
MUMBAI: Bombay high court recently dismissed a petition filed by student born to an inter-caste couple who wanted to be declared as a Scheduled Caste on his mother’s side. His parents were divorced when he was a minor, and he was raised by his mother. A district caste scrutiny committee denied his claim last April,…
MNS leader Avinash Jadhav (File Photo) NEW DELHI: Police detained Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) local leader Avinash Jadhav early Tuesday morning ahead of a planned rally in Thane to counter traders’ protests against MNS members slapping a food stall owner for not speaking Marathi. The proposed rally by Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti in Mira Bhayander area…
MUMBAI: Social media influencer and businesswoman, Rajshree More, has accused the son of a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) functionary of intimidation, abuse and threats, after he allegedly rammed his SUV into her car in Mumbai’s Andheri West while driving under the influence.The accused, Rahil Javed Shaikh (26), son of Javed Shaikh, a senior MNS leader…
Mumbai: An FIR has been registered against the deputy manager (accounts) working with a prominent chain of schools across the country for misappropriating school funds up to Rs 1.4 crore. The FIR was registered at Bangur Nagar police station on Sunday on the basis of a statement given by the head of accounts working with…
Mumbai: Hitting back at CM Devendra Fadnavis for his comment that the Thackeray cousins’ ‘reunion’ rally was a “rudali” (professional women mourners) act and not a “victory celebration”, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said that the “original BJP” was “dead” and that “those who feel sad about the happy moments of Marathi people are…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) on Monday signed an agreement with the Adani Group for the implementation of the Motilal Nagar redevelopment project in Goregaon (W). Around 3,700 residents of this 142 acre parcel of land will be rehoused in “ultra modern” apartments measuring 1,600 sq ft built-up area. This is the…
Navi Mumbai: Raigad police beefed up security along the coastline after the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Delhi informed the ICG at Murud in Raigad district that a suspicious ‘Pakistani’ fishing boat has been spotted in the Arabian Sea about 3 nautical miles near Korlai Fort in Murud taluka on Sunday around 9pm. However, after a…
Mumbai: A 32-year-old chartered accountant died by suicide at his Santacruz home on Saturday after allegedly being blackmailed into paying Rs 2.5 crore over months to two persons he befriended on Instagram last year who threatened to make his intimate videos with them public. Vakola police on Monday lodged a case of abetment to suicide…
Mumbai: A sessions court recently rejected a police request for custody of an alleged financial scam mastermind, Shaileshkumar Pandey, and instead remanded him in judicial custody while ordering his return to Kolkata.The court decision hinged on the finding that Pandey was illegally detained and produced before the court beyond the permissible 24-hour period from his…
