Late on Tuesday, 21-year-old Mayank Lohar (L) was knifed to death by a co-traveller, Roshan Suvarna (R), following an altercation over closing the door of the train compartment amid heavy rain. MUMBAI: In the aftermath of the horrific murder of a young passenger on a local train, the Govt Railway Police (GRP) plans to intensify…
Mumbai: A 68-year-old cabbie was killed in a hit-and-run while he stood next to his stationary cab at Aarey Colony recently. Police said he was hit by a tempo driver who fled from the location. An FIR was registered against the tempo driver subsequently.The deceased, Mazrul Khan, lived in Andheri East with his son, Iztekhar,…
Mumbai: Mumbai Central Prison, more commonly known as Arthur Road Jail, has completed a century housing the city’s most dangerous and controversial residents — from the smuggler barons of the 1960s to the rival gangs who turned the prison into a battlefield in the 1990s, to the present-day white-collar accused who are vocal about the…
Mumbai: The Byculla police have arrested a 39-year-old Pune resident after they caught him distributing capsules mixed with zinc phosphide, a highly toxic acute rodenticide to control rats and mice, to devotees participating in a Moharram procession at Byculla late on Friday.Police recovered 1,400 capsules from Faiyyaz Premji, 39, a resident of Viman Nagar in…
MUMBAI: Byculla police have arrested a 39-year-old Pune resident after they caught him distributing capsules mixed with zinc phosphide, a highly toxic acute rodenticide to control rats and mice, to devotees participating in a Moharram procession at Byculla late on Friday.Police recovered 1,400 capsule from Faiyyaz Premji, a resident of Viman Nagar in Pune.One of…
The Khan family proposes to construct a ground-plus-stilt-plus-six-storey residential building with a total built-up area of 1,014.11 sq metres Mumbai: Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) has granted clearance to a proposal for a new sea-facing residential building owned by actor Salman Khan’s mother, Salma Khan, in Bandra (West). The Intimation of Disapproval (IOD) for…
Deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde Mumbai: Deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday hit out at Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray after he flew on the same plane as chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday evening. Shinde said honesty is more important than travelling on a plane. Shinde said Fadnavis knows how dangerous a…
Mumbai: In a ruling that could benefit taxpayers investing in under-construction or redevelopment projects, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has held that tax relief on capital gains cannot be denied merely because the final conveyance deed is executed after the prescribed period. The relief is granted provided the taxpayer has acquired enforceable rights in…
Both had petitioned the HC separately after the sessions court in Mumbai denied them bail on May 7 Mumbai: In one of the oldest pending cases investigated by the Enforcement Directorate, a magistrate’s court this week acquitted a 73-year-old South Mumbai businessman and two of his firms in three separate cases related to Rs 17…
Mumbai: In a rare feat for Mumbai’s organ donation programme, the families of two women declared brain dead at the same hospital consented to donate their organs on the same day, giving a new lease of life to eight patients with end-stage organ failure.On Friday, a 39-year-old woman who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury…
