MUMBAI: Bombay high court has adjourned to 2046 a Rs 20cr defamation suit filed by a woman, who is almost 90, and her daughter against the managing committee members of a south Mumbai CHS. “I do not wish to state anything except that this matter should not be taken up for the next 20 years,”…
Pune: Former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar‘s elder son Parth, a Rajya Sabha MP, on Tuesday travelled from Mumbai to Pune in an aircraft operated by VSR Ventures, the same aviation firm responsible for the fatal crash that claimed his father’s life on Jan 28 this year.Parth boarded the aircraft, along with four others, to…
Mumbai: Bombay HC on Tuesday orally upbraided the state govt and civic authorities over their failure to act against illegal hawkers and dubbed as an “eyewash” attempts to show that Street Vendors Act, 2014, was being implemented.Justices A S Gadkari and Kamal Khata said there is “no will” displayed by the authorities to implement HC’s…
Mumbai: Rejecting a plea by the former chairman and the former vice-chairman of the fraud-hit New India Cooperative Bank to allow them to appear through video conferencing from the UK, a magistrate court held that “such kind of abysmal entitlement shown by the accused cannot be entertained”. It said were such pleas to be allowed,…
Thane: A court in Thane district has acquitted a man accused of forcibly establishing a sexual relationship with his sister-in-law and impregnating her, citing that the prosecution had failed to prove the charges as the key witnesses had turned hostile.Additional sessions judge Premal S Vithalani held the 34-year-old accused, a resident of Kalwa, not guilty…
Mumbai: In a shocking incident, a 39-year-old man was beaten to death with a bamboo stick on suspicion of mobile phone theft near Mahim Causeway on Sunday morning.Mahim police have arrested Naresh Singh a native of Samastipur in Bihar on the charges of murder.The deceased has been identified as Mohammed Jayabul Shah alias Anil (39),…
Mumbai: As of Tuesday, the total water stock in all seven of the city’s water supply lakes stood at 4.1 lakh million litres (28.35% of net capacity), which is higher than last year’s 3.65 lakh million litres (25.3% of net capacity) on the same date. In 2024, the April 28 figure was 2.9 lakh million…
Kalyan: The decomposed bodies of an elderly couple, who went missing 10 days ago from Kalyan taluka, were found in a secluded area nearly 20km away in Murbad taluka.Police said they are yet to determine the exact cause of death due to the advanced stage of decomposition, but suspect that the couple may have died…
Mumbai: The newly completed Missing Link of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway will officially be inaugurated by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on May 1, as reported by TOI, but regular motorists will be able to use the route only from late that night, with full public access effectively beginning from the morning of May 2.“After the inaugural…
Navi Mumbai: Kailas Gaikwad, 53, the deputy municipal commissioner (anti-encroachment department) of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC), who was arrested last week by the Navi Mumbai Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in a graft case, was released on bail by the Belapur District Sessions Court on Monday.Gaikwad was caught red-handed at his office at NMMC headquarters while…
