Mumbai: The Bombay high court recently directed a freeze on Rs 34 lakh in the bank accounts of the mother and brother of a man on his wife’s plea that he transferred it to them to avoid paying maintenance to her and their minor daughter.Justice Manjusha Deshpande on Nov 27 passed the interim order on…
NEW DELHI: The family feud over industrialist Sunjay Kapur’s Rs 30,000-crore estate got messier on Monday after his mother Rani Kapur joined forces with his ex-wife Karisma Kapoor in questioning the veracity of his will.Rani submitted before Justice Jyoti Singh of Delhi high court that instead of grieving Sunjay’s death after accidentally swallowing a bee…
NANDED: A 21-year-old woman in Maharashtra’s Nanded district married her deceased lover in a symbolic ceremony on Friday, even as she levelled explosive allegations that two police personnel from the Itwara police station had encouraged her brother to kill him. The killing of 20-year-old Saksham Tate has led to the arrest of the woman’s father…
Mumbai: Santacruz police registered a case against three men on Nov 6 after a senior citizen from Santacruz (W) was duped of Rs 1.5 lakh. The victim, MD Mangi (76), was persuaded by two of the accused who told him they knew a person capable of solving his financial problems and promised that the victim…
New Delhi: For just one day every week, a small section of Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital’s OPD block transforms into the country’s only dedicated pollution clinic — a quiet frontline against a public health crisis that now stretches far beyond the lungs.When TOI visited the clinic, doctors across specialties say what began as a…
Pune: Civic officials have raised concerns over inadequate fire safety measures in industrial units across the areas within the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) limits in Pimpri Chinchwad, following Saturday’s blaze at a powder-coating factory that left one worker dead and five others injured.When fire brigade teams arrived at the location in Bhosari MIDC, key…
Mumbai: After the Congress announced that it would go solo in the BMC polls and Shiv Sena (UBT) party president Uddhav Thackeray said it is free to make its decision, Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Monday said he would go to Delhi next week and talk to the Congress high command. “Congress must be…
New Delhi: Cold northwesterly winds have set this winter an early trend of a steep fall in the mercury at the beginning of Dec. The city recorded a minimum temperature of 5.7 degrees Celsius on Monday, which was five notches below normal — the lowest minimum for the first week of Dec in at least…
Pune: The state public health department recently launched a special screening programme in all 36 districts wherein 4,211 new leprosy cases including 107 in Pune were detected between Nov 17 and 29.The special drive saw Mumbai city and suburbs report 87 cases, with the highest numbers in Chandrapur (307), Satara (265) and Nagpur and Gadchiroli…
Navi Mumbai: The season’s first flamingos touched down in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai wetlands, exciting bird lovers and environmentalists as the elegant birds signalled the return of the region’s annual pink season. Their arrival was slightly delayed due to the extended monsoon, but the sight of the birds sweeping over creeks and lakes revived hopes…
