Mumbai: French beauty giant L’Oreal is buying a majority stake in homegrown personal care firm Innovist which owns digital first brands such as Bare Anatomy and Chemist at Play, the company said on Thursday.This will be L’Oreal’s first acquisition in India in nearly 13 years since its purchase of Mumbai-based Cheryl’s Cosmeceuticals in Sept 2013…
Mumbai’s BEST undertaking faces an indefinite strike from midnight Thursday (Representative image enhanced with AI) MUMBAI: A joint action committee of employees of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking announced an indefinite strike starting at midnight on Thursday to press for their demands. Power supply in South Mumbai and civic bus services are…
Mumbai: With ‘Operation Tiger’ now almost complete and the merger of the rebel MPs with the Dy CM Eknath Shinde-led Sena said to be a formality, the rival Shiv Senas will have a showdown at the party’s foundation day events in Mumbai on Friday. June 19 this year marks the 60th anniversary of the party’s…
Mumbai: An FIR was registered against three members of a family for attacking a BMC team that was carrying out a drive against unauthorised hawkers in Goregaon East. The FIR was lodged on the basis of a complaint given by a licence inspector from the BMC.On June 17, the BMC carried out a drive against…
Dombivli: What should have been a moment of unbridled celebration for 23-year-old Sohan Anil Manjrekar after he secured All India Rank (AIR) 3 in the Chartered Accountancy (CA) final examination was also marked by a sense of longing. Amid the celebrations, Manjrekar and his family—father Anil and elder sister Shivani—could not help but remember Manjrekar’s…
Mumbai: Observing that what has been pointed to it is “most disturbing”, Bombay high court last week restrained a group and unknown others from making any disclosure, public or otherwise, of allegedly hacked sensitive information about children of many schools in Mumbai and abroad run by a charitable trust and another company that runs schools….
Mumbai: BJP minister Girish Mahajan denied allegations of a BJP hand in the likely exit of six Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs and said the party could see the exit of corporators too in the coming days.Denying that the BJP had a hand in any of it, he said Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut’s caustic…
Mumbai: Following the six Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs disobeying a party whip to attend a meeting, MP Sanjay Raut continued his tirade of abuses against them on Thursday.“Yeh s**le g**du hai…g**du,” Raut said.He also claimed that NCP (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar had called him and said they must go to the constituencies of rebel MPs…
Mumbai: The Andheri Police registered a case against a youth, Abhinandan Sule, for trespassing on Metro tracks and causing a delay in services, after metro services between Dahisar and Versova were suspended for 17 minutes.The complainant, a security guard at the Metro One Andheri station, was on duty on Wednesday afternoon when he received a…
Mumbai: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), on Thursday, arrested a state tax inspector of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Department for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from an applicant seeking a GST registration number.The accused has been identified as Sandeep Khalate, posted at GST Department Nodal-7, Mazgaon. According to the ACB, the complainant…
