State okays ACB decision to close Gavit inquiry

MUMBAI: The state government informed the Bombay high court on Wednesday that it had approved the anti-corruption bureau decision to close the open inquiry into the alleged disproportionate assets of former state minister Vijaykumar Gavit, his wife,...

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At standing committee meet, most political parties oppose new hawking policy

MUMBAI: Almost all political parties are united against BMC's new hawker policy. Their common refrain was that the new policy should not disturb residents just to accommodate hawkers.Corporators of almost all parties opposed the civic authority's decision...

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Bengalis, Malayalees enjoy ‘workday’ new year

MUMBAI: Despite the fact that Wednesday was a working day, the Bengali and Malayalee communities made time to visit temples and prepare the elaborate Vishukani and feast on the occasion of new year.Poila Boishakh 2015 saw the Bengali calendar turn to...

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Mumbai school team makes a bookmark at global challenge

MUMBAI: Five students from the city have worked for six months to created unique bookmarks, which have won them a chance to fly to Seattle later this month.Class VI, VII and VIII students of R N Podar Schol, Santacruz, along with their teacher, Varsha...

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4 cops get HC contempt notice for taking 1 year to probe trespass case

MUMBAI: Irked that the Mumbai police had failed to probe a city resident's complaint of trespass, despite court orders, the Bombay high court (HC) has issued a contempt notice against four officers who served at Sakinaka police station in the past two...

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Bombay HC extends protection to Urdu editor from arrest

MUMBAI: Bombay High Court on Thurday extended its interim relief from coercive steps, including arrest, granted to Avadhnama editor Shirin Dalvi till June 15.On March 18, a bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Anuja Prabhudessai while approving the...

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Animal activists condemn the chicken abuse during Shiv Sena victory celebration

MUMBAI: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA India) has strongly condemned the cruel abuse of chickens during the victory celebrations for the Bandra (east) bypolls."Animals claim no political sides and yet, even when humans celebrate a...

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Maharashtra bypoll: Shiv Sena Trupti Sawant defeats Narayan Rane

MUMBAI: Congress leader Narayan Rane once again received a major political setback after a widow of former Sena legislator late Prakash Sawant defeated him in a bypoll with a comfortable margin of around 19000 votes.Sawant led Sena's home turf Bandra...

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Shiv Sena's Trupti Sawant trounces former CM

MUMBAI: In a major political coup, Shiv Sena's Trupti Sawant trounced former CM and Congress heavyweight Narayan Rane in the Bandra (east) assembly by-election with over 20,000 margin of votes.A rank novice, Sawant was in the poll fray following the...

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Maharashtra okays ACB clean chit to Gavit, HC told

MUMBAI: Maharashtra government informed Bombay High Court on Wednesday that it has sanctioned Anti-Corruption Bureau's clean chit to former cabinet minister Vijaykumar Gavit, his wife Kumudini and his brother Sharad.A division bench of Justice Naresh...

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'Workers spend an average of 5% of income on commuting': Study

MUMBAI: The cost of travelling to work has almost doubled over the past five years. New research findings by global workplace provider Regus shows that workers worldwide now spend an average of 5% of their net take-home income on their annual commute.The...

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Half of construction project owners experienced underperforming projects last year: KPMG

MUMBAI: Over half of construction project owners experienced one or more underperforming projects last year, despite confidence in project planning and controls, said KPMG International's 2015 Global Construction Project Owner's Survey: Climbing the...

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HC puts on hold govt move to regularize Mumbai’s illegal buildings

MUMBAI: In a setback to the Maharashtra government, the Bombay high court on Monday restrained the state and BMC from taking a final decision on regularizing over 56,000 illegal structures in the city. Hearing a public interest litigation filed by city...

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‘Accused was in cop’s home at time of crime’

MUMBAI: The first defence witness in 2010 Kurla minor rape and murder case told a sessions court Monday that the accused Javed Sheikh, a cable man, was attending to a repair call at the home of a police constable in Nehru Nagar at the same time the prosecution...

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Happy new year, solar calendar way

Several communities that observe new year by the solar calendar are preparing to celebrate April 14-15 amid feasting and festivity. The advent of Vaishakh or Vishubh Sankranti marks the turn of the calendar for natives of Punjab, Bengal, Tamil Nadu,...

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Has night-life policy figured women safety? : Maharashtra to tell HC

MUMBAI : The Maharashtra government is expected to tell the Bombay High Court on Wednesday whether its policy decision to allow bars, pubs and restaurants to remain open all night in Mumbai has considered the impact of safety of women.On March 13, the...

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Free medical treatment for rape victims :Maha to tell HC

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government is expected to place before the Bombay High Court on Wednesday its policy for providing free medical treatment for rape victims. The government has to state if rape victims can also avail free treatment at private medical...

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Unseasonal showers fail to cool Mumbai

MUMBAI: Unseasonal showers of rain were recorded on Tuesday all over the city and suburbs. There were rains observed even in areas of Thane, Kalyan and Dombivli in the evening. However the unseasonal rains failed to cool the city and maximum temperatures...

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Boy scales school wall to look for ball, drowns in swimming pool

MUMBAI: A 10-year-old boy died after entering the swimming pool of an international school located in Borivli (west) on Saturday evening. The boy, Sahil Bhandary, and one of his friends had scaled the compound wall to enter the school premises looking...

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Over 30 IPS officers transferred in Maharashtra

MUMBAI: Over 30 IPS officers were transferred and some of them were promoted in Maharashtra on Monday.A new post of joint commissioner of police, economic offences wing, has been created in Mumbai and Dhananjay Kamalakar will be posted there.Meanwhile,...

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Paucity of testing facilities hobble students with disability

MUMBAI: The recent suo motu public interest litigation in Bombay high court, after students with developmental disorders were not allowed to use writers by the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has once again brought into focus to the lack...

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Central government yet to issue final notification for SGNP green zone

MUMBAI: The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has notified an Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) up to 12 sq km around the Vidarbha Tiger Reserve but has not given the final notification for expansion of the zones around Sanjay Gandhi National Park...

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Waive toll or we hike fee by 500: School bus operators

MUMBAI: The School Bus Owners Association has demanded relief in toll tax for school buses across the state. If not granted, the association has threatened to hike bus fees. A delegation of school bus owners will meet state ministers on Monday.This threat...

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Bar Muslims from voting, says Sena

MUMBAI: Disenfranchise Muslims in order to end vote-bank politics, demanded Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, triggering a firestorm of protest in both the community and political circles. The Mumbai police has stepped up vigil across the city to prevent any...

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‘State shouldn't do a U-turn on screening Marathi films’

MUMBAI: Saamna has pulled up the state government for changing the timings for the screening of Marathi films in multiplexes following "pressure" from distributors and multiplex proprietors.The government can't be a "mute spectator" if Marathi film industry...

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Sorry to hear pro-tobacco comments: Health minister

MUMBAI: Addressing doctors at the cancer treatment hub of Tata Memorial Hospital in Parel on Saturday, Union health minister J P Nadda distanced himself from the recent pro-tobacco comments made by his party colleagues.He also indicated the introduction...

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Fewer check-in bags misplaced by airlines: Study

MUMBAI: At airports across the world, the number of passengers who are left standing by the baggage carousel long after their flight has landed is on the decline, it seems.Globally, the rate of mishandled bags in 2014 was 7.3 bags per thousand passengers,...

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Fire engulfs actress Moon Moon Sen's apartments in Mumbai

MUMBAI: A massive fire engulfed the twin apartments of actress and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Moon Moon Sen in Mumbai early on Sunday morning.The incident took place at around 2am in the morning. Several fire tenders were deployed at the spot to douse...

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Woman passenger falls off train while washing hands near Boisar

MUMBAI: A 50-year-old woman died after allegedly losing her balance and falling off a long distance train while washing her hands near Boisar on Sunday.Vima Jain (50) a resident of Chinchpokli was travelling in the Suryanagari Express train. She along...

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Villagers demolish illegal wall after goons molest woman owner

MUMBAI: A week after an elderly woman was molested by goons when she objected to encroachment on her field in Bhayander, villagers, including women, demolished the illegal structures on the land on Sunday.On April 6, Philomina Dolya was molested and...

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CAG criticizes govt over poor fiscal planning

MUMBAI: In its report tabled before the Maharashtra legislature, the CAG painted a grim picture of the state's financial situation.The CAG report reveals that the state's investments in statutory corporations, rural banks and joint stock companies were...

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Close shave as man’s bike hits unmarked hump on S V Road

Mumbai: The insensitivity and ineptness of the authorities proved costly for a Santa Cruz resident, who was taken by surprise by a new, unmarked speed breaker in a dimly-lit stretch of S V Road and fractured his left arm after being thrown off his motorbike...

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BMC ready with policy on best use of antibiotics

Mumbai: The BMC is ready with an antibiotic policy to curb the abuse of antimicrobial drugs by doctors, perhaps the first by any civic agency in the country.The policy, the result of two years of meticulous work, means there will be uniformity in prescribing...

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Pay no toll at 65 booths, 6 near Mumbai, from June 1

MUMBAI: The state government on Friday announced waiver of road toll for cars and state transport buses at 65 plazas, six of them around Mumbai, from the midnight of May 31. Continued toll collection on existing roads and new booths cropping up have...

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Matrimonial website not liable for online fraud: HC

MUMBAI: A matrimonial website cannot be held responsible if a user is "careless and negligent" and falls for one of the common "internet scams", Bombay high court has ruled.A matrimonial portal was hauled in a criminal case after a woman divorcee looking...

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Pipe burst leads to traffic snarls on LBS Marg

MUMBAI: A pipeline burst led to a traffic snarl on the LBS Marg on Saturday morning. Both, north and south bound stretches between Bhandup and Mulund were congested around 11am.Motorists were severely inconvenienced and took to social networking sites...

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Under fire, state eases Marathi film timing

MUMBAI: Under fire for ordering multiplexes to screen Marathi movies in the 6-9pm prime time, the state government on Thursday relaxed the mandatory show timing to between noon and 9pm.After two days of meetings with movie and multiplex stakeholders,...

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CR services hit by rail fracture at Kurla

MUMBAI: Six suburban services were cancelled and many delayed as a fracture in the tongue rail led to delay in services on the CST-bound fast track on Thursday morning at Kurla on the Central Railways main line.Due to the incident, as many as 45 trains...

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BBC vs BBC, a battle brewing in Bombay high court

MUMBAI: The world famous acronym BBC is caught in a legal tangle in Mumbai. But, its not about the British Broadcasting Corporation. Borivali Biryani Centre (BBC), a popular eatery in the Mumbai, has moved the Bombay high court against a five star hotel...

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SANDRP seeks govt's explanation on Pranahita Chevella Link project

MUMBAI: South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) has written to the state government, stating people affected by the Pranahita Chevella Link project, whose barrage will be situated inside Maharashtra, have not been given any information...

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Maharashtra toll waiver to bring down burden on Mumbaikars’ wallets

MUMBAI: Not much though, state's toll waiver will bring down a little burden on Mumbaikars' wallets who commute to and fro distant suburbs and cities like Pune, Nashik and Goa in their cars and SuVs. But since the loss of toll from private cars may be...

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White paper on state finances tabled in Maharashtra Assembly

MUMBAI: A white paper on state finances, tabled in Maharashtra Assembly on Friday, says that revenue had increased at 16 percent annually in the last decade while the GSDP was between 9.9 percent and 10.7 percent which is balanced and satisfactory, compared...

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Lokhandwala township an NDZ, BKC site a water body

MUMBAI: The state government may have set up a panel to review the controversial 2034 draft Development Plan for Mumbai, but the errors unearthed in it continue to be so glaring that a detailed review may be unnecessary.In the latest two bloopers that...

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Box office worries in multicultural Mumbai

Mumbai: A common perception in the movie industry is that Marathi movies may be bringing in the awards, but has some catching up to do when it comes to luring movie-goers to theatres."Many films, including Oscar-nominated 'Shwaas', got hardly 3% occupancy,...

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‘De is not parochial, admire her guts as a Marathi mulgi’

Mumbai: Maharashtrian scholars and journalists have slammed the bid to pass a privilege motion against columnist Shobhaa De in the assembly over her tweet barbs aimed at the government's decision on mandatory screening of Marathi films in multiplexes...

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Smuggling ring busted, 7kg of gold seized

MUMBAI: The air intelligence unit (AIU) of the customs department has busted a gold smuggling ring in which a cellphone messaging application was used as the means of communication between couriers and receivers. The AIU's operation, which involved a...

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Fuel pumps may go dry over weekend

MUMBAI: Petrol dealers are planning an agitation on Saturday. They will not purchase fuel and operate only in one shift, which means fuel pumps may go dry during the weekend.On Wednesday, Ravi Shinde of Petrol Dealers Association said the talks with...

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‘BMC not liable under consumer law for free services’

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission recently held the BMC was not liable for medical negligence under the Consumer Protection Act for a service provided free of cost. The commission made the observation while dismissing...

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Crime branch to question builder in extortion case

MUMBAI: The city crime branch is gearing up to question a builder from south Mumbai and his son for using underworld connections to settle a property deal at a throwaway price. Last week, the property cell of the city crime branch arrested...

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