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…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday issued notice in a criminal application for cancellation of bail of the father of a 17-year-old boy who was allegedly at the wheel of the car that rammed into Ghatkopar businessman Dhrumil Patel’s scooter in Vidyavihar on February 5. Dhrumil succumbed to his injuries after battling for his…
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) has not received any bids for the telecom infrastructure contract on the underground Metro 3 Aqua Line, leaving the project without a clear near-term solution for ensuring seamless mobile connectivity inside tunnels and stations.The request for proposal, floated on March 13, 2023, to appoint a neutral in-building…
A man who returned from the US in 2019 allegedly stabbed two security guards in Thane, Maharashtra, in a suspected religiously motivated attack NEW DELHI: The Nayanagar police arrested a 31-year-old man within 90 minutes of allegedly stabbing two security guards at an under-construction building in Mira Road near Mumbai in the early hours of…
MUMBAI: An assistant municipal commissioner was Monday arrested on charges of rape for maintaining physical relations with an architect by falsely promising marriage. Nitin Chandrapratap Shukla (37), BMC ward officer of K-East (covering Andheri East & Vile Parle East), was taken into custody after he attended a meeting on the upcoming census.Shukla had met the…
MUMBAI: In her capacity as legal heir of her late husband, deputy CM Sunetra Ajit Pawar has secured relief from the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), which quashed proceedings initiated under Section 153C of the Income-tax Act and deleted the addition of Rs 32.14 crore as unexplained income. While the tax department put forward diaries and…
Kalyan: A massive fire that broke out at the Adharwadi dumping ground in Kalyan on Sunday evening continued to rage for nearly 30 hours, as firefighting teams struggled amid extreme heat and difficult conditions. The fire was brought under control at around 11.30 pm on Monday. The cooling operations were still underway, officials said.Officials said…
Navi Mumbai: Residents and activists are questioning the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO)’s decision to peg the real estate value of a 12-hectare wetland that draws flamingos at Rs 3,600 crore and for arguing against granting it a protected status. In a resolution note placed before its governing board last year, Cidco had described…
Film and theatre actor Bharat Kapoor, best remembered as the manipulative antagonist in the surprise superhit ‘Noorie’ (1979) and as the amoral lover in the poignant tragedy ‘Bazaar’ (1982), died in Mumbai on Monday. He was 80.“I got a call from Bharatji’s son, Rahul, saying he passed away around 3pm due to cardiac arrest at…
Mumbai: The BMC Improvements Committee on Friday approved the appointment of Jain International Organisation (JIO) to operate and manage a hostel for female students aged 18 and above in Akurli village in Kandivli East.JIO was recently in the news over protests challenging the Maharashtra government’s decision to hand over Wilson Gymkhana ground lease to the…
