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…
Mumbai: A police constable was verbally abused and threatened by a man when he went to break up a fight between two people in Jogeshwari East. Meghwadi Police registered an FIR and are looking for the accused.The incident occurred on June 26. Police personnel were on bandobast for Moharram near Idgah Maidan and Jhoola Maidan….
Navi Mumbai: The Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has launched an awareness drive across suspected places and collected water samples following reports of two confirmed cases of the rare and serious autoimmune disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). The two cases were reported in the last fortnight from the Aadhar Multispecialty Hospital, Panvel.Both the patients stay in…
Mumbai: Messages on social media about a promotional offer by a clothing retail outlet at Infiniti Mall in Malad West triggered a massive crowd at the mall premises on Saturday. Police had to intervene and announce that there was no such offer after which the crowd dispersed. Nothing untoward was reported.Sources said messages went viral…
Mumbai: Raising the issue of Muslim youth excluded from Govt’s AMRUT Institute schemes, Samajwadi Party MLA Rais Shaikh from Bhiwandi East has said that applications for the institute’s Drone Pilot Training Programme, run under the state govt’s Other Backward Bahujan Welfare Department, are being accepted only from Hindu candidates, while applications from Muslim candidates are…
At Masjid Bunder’s Indian Sailors’ Home, history survives in photos Beyond a row of shanties on the garbage-lined Thana street in Masjid Bunder hides a 95year-old triangular building that Dr Farzana Ansari’s husband likes to call “keechad mein kamal” — a lotus in the muck.For two hours every evening since 2024, the cheerful burqa-clad doctor…
The total number of weekday suburban services across all lines will remain unchanged at 1,820. (Representative Image) MUMBAI: Central Railway (CR) will convert 12 existing non-AC suburban services on its Main line into air-conditioned (AC) locals from Monday, June 29, taking the total number of AC services on its network to 120 in response to…
