Mumbai: Charkop police arrested a woman, Shraddha Vitthal Gadekar, who was wanted since five months after she fled, in connection with a fraud case involving a Kandivli-based firm.The firm cheated students on the pretext of facilitating higher education abroad. The firm’s owner, Stella Rakesh Mehta, and her husband, Rakesh Mehta, were named co-accused. Police said…
Navi Mumbai: Panvel city police have found a woman’s body dumped on an isolated road near Bambaipada village on the Uran-Panvel road in Panvel taluka on Sunday morning. Prima facie, the Panvel city police have registered a murder case as the woman was strangled using a cloth.Nitin Thakare, senior inspector of Panvel city police station…
Mumbai: The Customs department on May 1 and 2, has seized electronic items, cosmetics, cigarettes and crude gold cumulatively worth more than Rs 1.8 crore from passengers arriving at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport from Dubai, resulting in the arrest of one person, an official said on Sunday. “Two separate cases were registered against two…
Mumbai: Mulund police arrested a 42-year-old vegetable vendor for allegedly stabbing a 31-year-old hawker to death after he suspected the deceased was defaming his wife’s character in public on Saturday.The deceased, identified as Santosh Kumar Bind, was in the market area of JN Road at 9.30 pm when the accused, Rakesh Dhiver, confronted Bind and…
Mumbai: After 41 years, a sessions court on Saturday acquitted a 58-year-old man from Mumbra, Mohammad Shaikh, in communal rioting and murder case, citing a complete lack of evidence to link the accused to the violence. The incident involved a clash between the Bohra and Sunni Muslim communities in the Dongri locality. The case involved…
Mumbai: An electric AC double-decker bus caught fire and got damaged at Kurla depot on Sunday around 4pm, triggering concern over the safety of the city’s limited fleet of twin-deckers. The staff used 10-15 fire extinguishers to control the situation before fire brigade personnel from BKC arrived and doused the blaze at 6.15pm. No injuries…
Navi Mumbai: An over 60-year-old homeless man was lying in a weak, dehydrated state at the Uran Phata bus stop near Seawoods for days without proper food and water. He was almost on the brink of death when a social worker noticed and rescued him. The homeless man was then cleaned up, and provided with…
Navi Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has directed authorities to complete all pending procedures immediately and set a final deadline of six weeks to ensure legal rehabilitation of families displaced from Sheva Koliwada in Uran taluka. The HC was critical of the central govt and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) for the four-decade delay in…
Technically, there was no glass barrier in the 6th-century setting where Gautama Buddha is believed to have delivered his first sermon at Sarnath. So why does one exist behind the statues of his disciples and deer on the first floor of the cylindrical Nehru Centre building in Worli? The answer becomes clear a little further…
Mumbai: In a first, Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), the apex body steering research and development in the country, has asked researchers applying for grants to declare whether any of their publications have been retracted in the past five years. Applicants, principal investigators (PIs) or co-PIs have been asked to submit the reasons for such…
