Mumbai: The crime branch has arrested two employees of a jewellery shop who entered into a conspiracy and stole gold ornaments worth Rs 72 lakh, replacing the ornaments with imitation ornaments at the Dubai-based jewellery firm.When the employer lodged a police complaint, the duo called up the employer from Dubai and issued threats that more…
Following negligence and low-quality pothole filling, the contractor has been blacklisted for one year (Representative image) KALYAN: The Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has blacklisted a contractor for one year and withdrawn its road repair work over alleged negligence and poor-quality pothole filling during the monsoon.The civic body had appointed different contractors in various wards to…
The framework will cover civil surgeons, additional civil surgeons, medical superintendents, certain medical officers, assistant directors of Health Services, District Health Officers (DHOs), Additional DHOs and several other district and municipal health posts Mumbai: The Maharashtra Public Health Department on Tuesday introduced a performance-based evaluation system for senior medical and administrative officers, using their work…
Mumbai: RPG Group chairman Harsh Goenka on Tuesday revealed that “local community pressure” did not allow them to “achieve much” in the rejuvenation of the historic Banganga Tank at Walkeshwar.The industrialist took to social media platform X after it emerged that hundreds of fish died in the tank due to religious offerings by devotees during…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra govt on Tuesday dubbed as “fanciful,” “irrelevant and superfluous” the contention by political parties Indian National Congress, Communist Party of India (CPI) and social activists of any likely misuse of its new Special Public Security Act and said neither petitioner showed how it has impinged on their rights and hence lack the…
Mumbai: CM Devendra Fadnavis warned that the Congress and its allies were conspiring to bring in an extreme leftist govt in the country.Commenting on the INDI alliance march in Delhi on Tuesday, Fadnavis said the objective is to defame and denigrate institutions set up under the Constitution. “They are lying daily so people stop trusting…
Mumbai: The IIT-Bombay administration is planning to put the one-semester suspension rule for acts of copying on hold for the time being. Instead, it is likely to go back to the old guidelines approved by the institute’s senate in 2015, which, sources from the institute claimed, called for suspension only in cases of mass cheating…
Compensation will not be provided in cases where the death occurs naturally due to old age or a pre-existing incurable illness from before the person was taken into custody Mumbai: Maharashtra state cabinet, in a meeting chaired by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, on Tuesday approved a policy for providing Rs 5 lakh compensation to the…
Mumbai: Bombay High Court came down heavily on a govt employee who was apprehended recording the court’s proceedings.Justices Girish Kulkarni and Neela Gokhale on Monday, in suo motu proceedings, ordered Dilip Wagh’s mobile handset to be seized and confiscated after his personal data was removed and to be disposed of. They directed Wagh to deposit…
Mumbai: The Borivli Police have registered an FIR against two sisters for extorting money from the owner of a hotel, where a rat was allegedly found in a masala dosa while they were dining with their family last week. Police said the women, Mansi and Kinjal, threatened to file a complaint against the restaurant if…
