Mumbai: Four individuals, including a 20-year-old, have been booked for defrauding a Madhya Pradesh-based businessman of Rs 41 lakh by promising gold biscuits with a 10 to 15 % return. The con involved the staged kidnapping of a gang member who collected the money when businessman Piyush Gupta arrived at Sakinaka to receive the gold…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has stayed National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) decision to hire lawyers on the basis of CLAT scores, saying there seemed “no rationale” behind the process.HC stayed the move while reserving its order on a petition challenging a NHAI notification making exam scores of Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) PG,…
Pune: At least six months after the civic body declared handing over of its mechanised parking facility on JM Road to Maha Metro, the lot continues to gather dust.According to a detailed project proposal prepared by Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), the lot was to be operated on a revenue-sharing basis. The handover to Maha Metro…
Mumbai: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police has filed an abated summary in a metropolitan magistrate’s court in a Rs 3.3-crore fraud case after one of the accused died.Abated summary refers to discontinuation of the case if the accused dies during the pendency of the case.In this case, the fraudsters impersonated deceased members…
New Delhi: The principal of Delhi University’s Ramanujan College has reportedly been suspended over a complaint of alleged harassment and hostility. He, however, has termed the complaint “false and fabricated”. In letters to the Prime Minister’s Office grievance cell and the vice-chancellor, principal Rasal Singh denied the allegations, calling these “an attempt to convert an…
Pune: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) deactivated over 1.4 crore Aadhaar numbers linked to deceased individuals across India under a cleanup drive launched last year to prevent identity fraud and ensure that govt benefits reached the right hands.Bhuvanesh Kumar, the CEO of UIDAI, said, “Deactivating Aadhaar numbers of the deceased is essential to…
Mumbai: Sena MLA from Buldhana Sanjay Gaikwad stoked a controversy on Sunday by claiming that elections to the upcoming local body polls could cost up to Rs 3 crore per candidate.While seeking an alliance between BJP and Sena for the polls, he said, “We make alliances for Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha but in the…
New Delhi: Three men, including a state-level school football player and his cousin, were allegedly stabbed during a robbery in Kalka Garhi village, southeast Delhi, on Saturday. The injured cousins along with locals nabbed two of the accused involved in the attack. Police said the incident occurred around 10.15pm near a local temple. Deputy commissioner…
Pune: The Nigdi police on Friday night registered a cross complaint after two men beat each other up following a minor collision between their vehicles on the Pune-Mumbai highway in the morning. The complainants in both cases sustained head injuries. They were charged under sections 118 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) and other relevant ones of…
Mumbai: The BMC is planning to build a 4.2km flyover along the traffic congestion-prone LBS Marg from Kalpana Talkies in Kurla West to Pankhe Shah Baba Dargah in Ghatkopar West.There are three major junctions along this stretch — Andheri-Ghatkopar Link Road, Ghatkopar station road, and Sant Narsi Mehta Road junctions — which witness regular traffic…
