Dombivli: What should have been a moment of unbridled celebration for 23-year-old Sohan Anil Manjrekar after he secured All India Rank (AIR) 3 in the Chartered Accountancy (CA) final examination was also marked by a sense of longing. Amid the celebrations, Manjrekar and his family—father Anil and elder sister Shivani—could not help but remember Manjrekar’s…
Mumbai: Observing that what has been pointed to it is “most disturbing”, Bombay high court last week restrained a group and unknown others from making any disclosure, public or otherwise, of allegedly hacked sensitive information about children of many schools in Mumbai and abroad run by a charitable trust and another company that runs schools….
Mumbai: BJP minister Girish Mahajan denied allegations of a BJP hand in the likely exit of six Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs and said the party could see the exit of corporators too in the coming days.Denying that the BJP had a hand in any of it, he said Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut’s caustic…
Mumbai: Following the six Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs disobeying a party whip to attend a meeting, MP Sanjay Raut continued his tirade of abuses against them on Thursday.“Yeh s**le g**du hai…g**du,” Raut said.He also claimed that NCP (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar had called him and said they must go to the constituencies of rebel MPs…
Mumbai: The Andheri Police registered a case against a youth, Abhinandan Sule, for trespassing on Metro tracks and causing a delay in services, after metro services between Dahisar and Versova were suspended for 17 minutes.The complainant, a security guard at the Metro One Andheri station, was on duty on Wednesday afternoon when he received a…
Mumbai: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), on Thursday, arrested a state tax inspector of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Department for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from an applicant seeking a GST registration number.The accused has been identified as Sandeep Khalate, posted at GST Department Nodal-7, Mazgaon. According to the ACB, the complainant…
Mumbai: The combined water stock in the seven lakes catering to Mumbai dropped below 10% on Thursday. Civic officials said an additional 10% cut may be imposed in the first week of July, if rainfall doesn’t pick pace in the last week of June and reservoir levels fail to improve.With the BMC already imposing a…
Mumbai: The customs department has arrested the director of a pharmaceutical company and a broking firm director for allegedly attempting to export a controlled substance to the Czech Republic without a mandatory no objection certificate, or NOC, from narcotics authorities. The arrested were identified as Venkat Shinde, director of Veeprho Laboratories Private Limited, and Chandrashekhar…
Navi Mumbai: In a combing operation by the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Navi Mumbai crime branch in various nodes across Navi Mumbai Thursday, as many as nine African nationals, including six men and three women, were detained for overstaying their visas and violating the Passports Act and Foreigners Act, apart from already being booked in…
Mumbai: Bombay high court permitted medical termination by JJ Hospital of the 27-week pregnancy of an 18-year-old collegian, observing that she had made a choice.“We see no difficulty in the team of medical doctors proceeding with the process of termination of pregnancy as desired by her as she has made a choice,’’ said Justices Bharati…
