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Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has designated 23 additional special fast-track courts across Maharashtra to ensure speedy trials in examination paper leak and related malpractice cases. Among the newly designated courts is one in Bhiwandi, where the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) paper leak case surfaced last month.The move follows the High Court’s earlier decision to…

Mumbai: State govt on Tuesday told Bombay high court it is not possible to implement Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to use clay for making idols for the upcoming Ganesh festival.“We will implement it next year. How can it be stopped today? PoP idols are already made,” advocate general Milind Sathe told Justices Ajey Gadkari…

The foundation stone was laid on Aug 3 Mumbai: ED will soon get a 14-storey office building with four basement levels at BKC to house its western region offices. The agency’s director, Rahul Navin, laid its foundation stone on Monday.The 2,200sqm plot adjoining CBI’s office building was allotted to ED by MMRDA at Rs 362…

The move to change Bandra’s Neville D’Souza Football Ground’s reservation from a playground to a convention and exhibition centre has triggered an uproar Mumbai: A proposal to change the reservation of Neville D’Souza Football Ground at Bandra Reclamation from a playground to a convention and exhibition centre triggered a political row ahead of its scheduled…

Mumbai: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended the license of a mid-day meal supplier providing rice-based items to schools in Ghatkopar and Vikhroli, covering an estimated 3,000 students. The suspension was over severe hygiene and food safety violations.The incident had come to light after an opposition corporator had flagged the presence of small…

The 3-month deadline ended on July 30 Mumbai: Bombay HC recently frowned at the state govt after noticing that only nine grievance redressal committees for hawkers were set up within the three-month deadline set by the urban development department (UDD) for civic bodies, which ended on July 30.“We did not ask the state govt to…

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Navi Mumbai: Three officials of a credit co-operative society for Mathadi workers, having office in the premises of APMC fruit market, Turbhe, along with their five accomplices, have been named in an FIR for siphoning off Rs 6.7 crore by forging documents and signatures of several Mathadi worker for fraudulently registering their membership account and…

Mumbai: Mobile phone theft is rarely associated with efficiency manuals or assembly lines. But a seven-member ‘Dhakka Gang’ arrested by MIDC police appears to have turned pickpocketing into a carefully choreographed operation, complete with specialised job titles, role assignments and a well-rehearsed drama.The ‘Dhakka Gang’, arrested on July 30, targeted commuters travelling on crowded BEST…

Newly appointed ward committee chairpersons at the Thane Municipal Corporation after Tuesday’s election process Thane: Nearly six months after the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) elections, the chairpersons to its nine ward committees were appointed on Tuesday, ending a prolonged delay that had apparently impacted administrative decision-making at the micro level.Eight of the nine ward committee…