Mangled remains of the SUV Navi Mumbai: A newly married couple returning to their Mumbai Central home with family from a Goa trip ended in tragedy. The bride, the groom’s mother, his cousin, and the family driver died in an SUV crash along the Mumbai-Goa highway. Allegedly speeding along at 140 kmph, the SUV crashed…
Sachin Ahir lost Raigad bungalow allotment as former minister and current state BJP chief Ravindra Chavan continues to occupy it Mumbai: A scramble has broken out in the Mahayuti over allotment of bungalows to newly elected Legislative Council deputy chairperson Sachin Ahir. Ahir, who recently joined the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, was allotted the Raigad…
Navi Mumbai: An eight-month pregnant woman, Richa Mishra (26), who was shifted to Fortis Hospital, Belapur, in critical condition after she was administered a standard pre-delivery injection at NMMC hospital in Airoli on July 1, has recovered after timely multi-disciplinary care by the doctors at Fortis Hospital, and even her foetus is safe. She was…
Mumbai: Just three weeks ago, 26-year-old Kurla resident Vinu (name changed) was a healthy young man who believed liver failure was something that happened to others. Careful about what he ate and drank, he had no reason to imagine that a casual lunch with office colleagues would trigger a chain of events that would leave…
A chimney rests on a pyre after it fell during the last rites of a 70-year-old man on Wednesday. Mira-Bhayander: A portion of a chimney at a civic crematorium in Mira Road collapsed onto a burning funeral pyre on Wednesday morning, triggering panic among mourners.The deceased’s relatives, who were standing close to the pyre during…
Somit Sen & Clara LewisMumbai: In a major relief for Maharashtra’s farmers, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday announced that the state govt will soon waive electricity dues worth Rs 48,000 crore owed by agricultural consumers using up to 7.5 horsepower (HP) pumps, extending support beyond the existing free power scheme and clearing decades-old arrears…
Mumbai: As many as 103 of the 352 law colleges in Maharashtra have been given show-cause notices and asked to apply for the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) recognition in the next 24 hours. The state’s directorate of higher education (DHE) will allow these colleges to participate in the CET Cell’s centralised counselling process only…
Mumbai: In a significant ruling for property owners participating in redevelopment projects, the Mumbai Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has held that consideration received for the transfer of development rights is taxable as ‘capital gains’ and not as ‘income from other sources’. The tribunal further held that where the statutory conditions are satisfied, the taxpayer…
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute received its largest alumni donation The Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), a state-owned autonomous institution which is on its way to become a university, has got its largest single donation from one of its alumni from the class of 1967.Manu Shah, a BE mechanical engineering graduate from the institute and co-founder…
Raymond Realty has finalized a joint development agreement for an upscale housing scheme in Parel, Mumbai MUMBAI: Raymond Realty Ltd has partnered with a landowner to develop a luxury housing project in Mumbai with an estimated revenue potential of Rs 8,500 crore.In a regulatory filing on Wednesday, the company said it has signed a joint…
