Mumbai: Mumbai mayor Ritu Tawde has sought a dedicated assistant municipal commissioner for the BMC’s public relations department, citing the need to improve the civic body’s public image and make public awareness campaigns more effective. She has also expressed dissatisfaction with the department’s functioning.The demand comes amid BMC having placed before its Standing Committee details…
The Bombay high court bench of Justices Manish Pitale and Shreeram Shirsat on Tuesday allowed nine petitions by Sebi and BSE Mumbai: The Bombay high court has quashed and set aside Central Information Commission’s (CIC) orders that directed the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to collect or obtain information from Bombay Stock Exchange…
Bombay high court agreed to advance the hearing on a petition to save the ground from Aug 24 to Thursday Mumbai: A day after BMC’s general body approved a proposal to change the reservation of the Neville D’Souza Football Ground at Bandra Reclamation from a playground to a convention and exhibition centre, Bombay high court…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Wednesday said “positive steps” must be taken for improving health and hygiene even as BMC assured the court that garbage transport vehicles would not be parked in future near heritage sites in Fort area.A bench led by Justice Girish Kulkarni was hearing petitions regarding the Kanjurmarg dumping ground. It recorded…
In 2019, the govt approved the creation of a Mounted Police Unit with 30 horses for the Mumbai Police Force Mumbai: The state govt approved Rs 1.27 crore for the mounted police unit of the Mumbai Police, and the money will be utilised to buy horses, saddlery, related equipment, veterinary and medical examination expenses for…
Navi Mumbai: A 27-year-old Ola cab driver was allegedly punched on the nose, hit on the head with a bamboo stick and then driven for nearly 2km while clinging to the bonnet of a car after a road-rage argument in Nerul on Friday night. The injured driver, identified as Pradeep Kumar Pandey, was trying to…
Navi Mumbai: A 28-year-old fisherman allegedly killed his three-year-old stepson in Uran after losing his temper when the child repeatedly told him he was his real father, and that he wanted to go to his real father. The accused, Jitendra Pradeep Bhise, initially claimed the boy had suffered fatal head injuries after falling from a…
The court convicted the accused under the relevant sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act Mumbai: A special court under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on Tuesday convicted a 32-year-old man and sentenced him to six months’ rigorous imprisonment for hurling casteist abuses at an advocate and making derogatory…
Maharashtra FDA has confiscated banned items and dairy products valued at Rs 25 lakh MUMBAI: Live rodents in a hotel kitchen, expired food on sale and widespread hygiene lapses were among the violations detected by Maharashtra FDA during inspections of 31 food establishments, leading to seizures worth nearly Rs 25 lakh, 10 arrests and suspension…
MMRDA has rejected allegations of wrongdoing. It said that the recruitment examination was conducted through a government-approved agency and that normalisation and evaluation were carried out as per the prescribed methodology Mumbai: A candidate who scored just 7.5 out of 100 in the BMC’s junior engineer recruitment examination and 80 out of 200 in CIDCO’s…
