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,…
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: Almost 18 years after being granted ‘deemed-to-be university’ status, the reputed Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) in Matunga is keen on shedding the tag. Though the premier institute benefits from greater academic autonomy as a deemed entity, it is concerned that this very status is increasingly restricting its access to big-ticket state and central…
Navi Mumbai: A major fire broke out at Sanjeevan Deep shelter home for paraplagics in sector 18, Airoli on Tuesday early morning around 3 am. However, there were no casualities reported, as around 13 inmates accomodated at the shelter home were evacuated before the fire spread to the premises. The fire breakout caused severe damage…
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…
Badlapur: In a relief to commuters, particularly two-wheeler riders, often stuck at traffic signals in extreme heat with temperatures touching 42 deg C, traffic signals across Kulgaon-Badlapur will be switched off between 1.30pm and 4.30pm starting Wednesday. Ruchita Rajendra Ghorpade, president of Kulgaon-Badlapur municipal council, explained that “traffic movement is relatively low during the afternoon…
Thane: A mystery fire broke out in Manpada along the border of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) and spread within the jungle area before it was contained by a joint rescue team comprising municipal and forest staff Monday night, officials informed.The incident was reported around 8pm, following which a combined team of forest and…
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…
Mumbai: A sessions court on Tuesday convicted a 33-year-old truck driver for the murder of a Bhiwandi businessman and the attempted murder of a toll plaza employee in 2023 following an argument over rash driving and sentenced him to life imprisonment.The crime was captured on the Mulund toll plaza’s CCTV cameras, providing the court with…
