Mumbai: A sessions court on Friday granted bail to Malad-resident Abdul Khullay, an air conditioning dealer arrested in digital arrest scam involving siphoning of over Rs 58 crore through “digital arrest” from a retired pharma executive. Khullay spent seven months in jail. The order noted that Khullay had proactively cooperated with authorities by requesting his…
Mumbai: A month after police registered a case where a city widow was placed under “digital arrest” and duped of Rs 60 lakh in cash from outside her residence, the crime branch police have arrested four Jalgaon residents. Two of the arrested accused worked in Cambodia at an Indian restaurant run by the main accused,…
Mumbai: While the BMC on Friday evening claimed that it successfully completed repairs to a 1,650-mm main water pipeline on Dr E Moses Road in Mahalaxmi, which was damaged on Wednesday evening, there was no relief for residents in areas such as Mumbai Central, Nagpada and Kamathipura even on Saturday morning. Residents complained that they…
Mumbai: The income tax department alongwith Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) on Friday held an outreach initiative aimed at creating awareness and enhancing stakeholder understanding of the provisions of the new Income-tax Act, 2025 and the Income-tax Rules, 2026. Nirupama Kotru, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (International Taxation…
1.30 pm on May 2, 2003. The moment is seared into Alagu Sundaram’s memory. He was 22, back in Dharavi after a summer trip to Tirunelveli, when word reached him that the man whose face adorned the walls of his kholi was in Mumbai for a couple of days. If he hurried, he might still…
George MendoncaNavi Mumbai:After a two-week investigation, the Kharghar Police cracked the April 24 robbery case in which businessman Sushant More (41) was robbed of 570 grams of gold ornaments worth Rs 40.6 lakh near his residence in Sector 12, Kharghar.Police arrested seven accused, including More’s friend Abhinandan Mali (37) from Sangli, who allegedly masterminded the…
George MendoncaNavi Mumbai:A bank cashier at GS Mahanagar Co-operative Limited Bank’s Panvel branch has been booked by the Panvel city police for allegedly embezzling Rs 15.50 lakh from the bank’s cash counter after a complaint was lodged against him by the bank manager on May 6.Nitin Thakare, senior inspector city police station, said the accused…
It’s a Thursday morning in late April, and three directors and several shareholders of a seafood company are gathered around a conference table, absorbed in a presentation on food packaging.“When a package is properly sealed, it assures the buyer of the product’s quality and builds consumer confidence,” says the instructor at the Indian Institute of…
Thane: The Thane Municipal Corporation has identified highly vulnerable landslide-prone zones within the city limits and directed teams to interact with residents living in these locations and update them with precautionary measures to be taken during the monsoon.Around 14 potential spots have been identified of which extremely risky stretches—Lokmanya Sawarkar nagar, Gholai and Atkoneshwar Nagar…
Mumbai: Discussions across medical forums in recent weeks have centred around “problems” with the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act after two court interventions put gynaecologists under scrutiny.“Why are doctors being made scapegoats?” asked senior Mumbai gynaecologist Dr Sudhir Naik, reflecting the anger in medical circles.In one case, an FIR was filed against a gynaecologist…
