Mumbai: To tighten the legal framework for recovery of investor assets, virtual digital assets (VDAs) like cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-based digital instruments can be now attached in cases involving financial fraud. Maharashtra legislature on Wednesday passed amendments to the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) Act, 1999 (MPID Act). The Bill, introduced…
Mumbai: BMC’s additional municipal commissioner Prajakta Verma-Lavangare, who is also additional district election officer, has directed that strict action will be initiated against officers and employees who fail to report immediately for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) programme of electoral rolls. She also instructed assistant commissioners and zonal deputy commissioners of the BMC and the…
Eleven accused have been arrested Mumbai: Mankhurd police have busted a fake call centre operating from Dehradun in Uttarakhand that allegedly duped unemployed youths from across the country with airline job offers in Mumbai. Eleven accused have been arrested.Police said the case was registered on February 27 under Sections 319(2) and 318(4) of the Bharatiya…
Bombay high court will hear the matter finally after two weeks Mumbai: The state government on Wednesday submitted before the Bombay high court an expert technical panel report for eco-friendly dissolution of PoP idols, which recommended two separate artificial immersion ponds: one for idols made of environmentally unfriendly material and another for those made of…
Pic used for representation purpose Mumbai: Five families of brain-dead patients donated the organs of their loved ones over five days last week, taking Mumbai’s cadaver organ donation tally to a record 35 in just the first six months of 2026 — among the fastest the city reached the milestone since its deceased organ donation…
Mumbai: A day after 11-year-old Vihaan Srivastav died in a tree crash in Chembur, the BMC suspended three officials–Jagdish Bhoir, assistant garden superintendent of M-West ward, Arun Mundhe, sub-engineer from its roads and traffic department, M-West ward, and Yogesh Parte, assistant engineer of M-East ward–for alleged negligence, pending a departmental inquiry.Following Tuesday’s tragedy, BMC commissioner…
Mumbai: The Bhoiwada Police arrested three men for allegedly stealing donation boxes from a temple in Dadar East and recovered the entire stolen property worth Rs 9,000.According to police, the theft took place between 9 pm on June 28 and 6 am on June 29 at the Vyagheshwar Mahadev Mandir on Sadanand Jadhav Marg, Naigaon.Following…
Mumbai: Heavy rain threw vehicular traffic out of gear in many parts of the city. Traffic police said broken-down vehicles resulted in slowing down traffic movement in some places.Waterlogging impacted traffic movement at Khar subway and Andheri subway. Twice, Andheri subway had to be kept shut till the water could be drained out and the…
Mumbai: A day after 11-year-old Vihaan Srivastav died in a tree crash in Chembur, the BMC suspended two officials–Jagdish Bhoir, assistant garden superintendent of M-West ward and Arun Mundhe, sub-engineer from its roads and traffic department, M-West ward–for alleged negligence, pending a departmental inquiry.Following Tuesday’s tragedy, BMC commissioner Ashwini Bhide has directed officials to undertake…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena minister Sanjay Shirsat has kicked up a row by saying falling of trees and lightning strikes are not in human hands. The comment came in the wake of the death of a student after a tree collapsed on a school bus in Chembur.A day after he made the remarks, the social justice…
