Mumbai: Services on Metro Line 3 were partially disrupted for around 30 minutes on Tuesday afternoon after smoke was detected at the CSMIA T2 station. There were no injuries.A fire brigade official said 3 fire engines and 2 jumbo tankers reached the site and the fire was doused by 4.45 pm. Smoke permeated the underground…
Mumbai: Noting that the illegal activity of the accused led to illegal constructions and their court ordered demolitions rendering approximately 2,500 families homeless, a special court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of a 62-year-old former corporator, Sitaram Gupta, in a multi-crore money laundering case linked to the encroachment of government land and the construction…
Thane: An election petition has been filed before a civil court in Kalyan challenging the process of declaring 20 candidates “elected unopposed” in the recent Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) polls.The petition, filed by local Congress leader Prakash Pagare alias Mama Pagare, raises constitutional and democratic concerns, arguing that voters were denied their right to participate…
Mumbai: Amid fissures in INDIA bloc after the West Bengal and Tamil Nadu assembly poll results, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said TMC chief Mamata Banerjee was the first to say at a meeting of the opposition alliance that then Bihar CM Nitish Kumar would leave the grouping when his name was…
Mumbai: Mumbai’s BEST bus fleet is under sharp scrutiny after a recent fire involving an electric double-decker and the detection of serious defects in 13 wet lease buses recently, exposing troubling gaps in maintenance, inspection and operational safety. The transport undertaking has now ordered comprehensive safety checks across its entire fleet, directing depots not to…
Mumbai: What began as a probe into a digital arrest scam led cyber police to a high- tech operation where messaging and video calling apps like WhatsApp were cloned dozens of times on the same device before shipping it overseas to facilitate global cybercrime. Four men were arrested from Tripura in this connection and police…
Mumbai: The 47th metropolitan magistrate court has issued a non-bailable warrant against former Religare Enterprises chairperson Rashmi Saluja after she repeatedly failed to appear in connection with alleged irregularities in the allotment of employee stock options (ESOPs) at Care Health Insurance Ltd.The case stems from an economic offences wing chargesheet against Saluja and 3 others—former…
Mumbai: A special court in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district has acquitted former state minister Anil Parab in a case of alleged illegal construction of a resort and tax irregularity, ruling that the prosecution has failed to prove its case.Besides Parab, who is a Shiv Sena (UBT) leader, special judge at Khed Prasanna S Chandgude, hearing cases…
Mumbai: In a significant development in the suspected fatal drug overdose case, police on Wednesday told a magistrate’s court that prime accused Mahesh Khemlani had ordered 4,000 ecstasy pills from Europe and had them couriered to a co-accused’s residence in Ulhasnagar. Police also said that a USTD wallet was used to facilitate payment. The court…
Mumbai: In a move that could fundamentally alter how private medical colleges in Maharashtra admit students, the state CET Cell has proposed doing away with the controversial institutional round, the final stage of admissions that has for years operated outside the centralised counselling process overseen by govt.The proposal, officials confirmed, has already received clearance from…
