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'I paid Rs.2.2L, but my child got coaching for only 3 months'

MUMBAI, July 18 -- Days after Mahesh Tutorials abruptly shut 33 coaching centres across Maharashtra, most of them in Mumbai, thousands of students, parents and teachers are still waiting for answers. ... Read More


state to allow petrol bikes in app-based fleets

Mumbai, July 18 -- The state government has decided to allow petrol-powered bikes in app-based taxi fleets, reversing its earlier decision to permit only electric two-wheelers for bike taxi services. ... Read More


Power cut hits 420k homes in Dombivli and Ulhasnagar

MUMBAI, July 18 -- Around 420,000 homes in Dombivli, Ulhasnagar, Badlapur and nearby areas were plunged into darkness for more than two hours on Friday evening due to a major technical fault in Mahara... Read More


Three airport staff among six held in 5.1 kg gold bust

MUMBAI, July 18 -- What appeared to be a routine transit operation at Mumbai airport turned out to be part of an organised international gold-smuggling network involving airport insiders and foreign c... Read More


NCP (SP) eyes three cabinet berths amid merger rumours

MUMBAI, July 18 -- As talks to reunite the rival Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) factions, backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), gather momentum, insiders with knowledge of the issue told HT, t... Read More


NCP leaders pitch Parth Pawar for Modi cabinet

MUMBAI, July 18 -- As signs of an internal rift within the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) become increasingly visible, a section of party office-bearers has pitched for the induction of her son and ... Read More


19-year-old boy drowns after suffering seizure in Kurla lake

MUMBAI, July 18 -- A 19-year-old youth with a history of epilepsy drowned while swimming in Kurla's Sheetal Talao near LBS Road on Friday morning, with police suspecting that he suffered a seizure in ... Read More


Why smartphones and laptops are getting costly

India, July 18 -- Prices of smartphones and laptops have gone up. This may sound counterintuitive because our devices were supposed to get smarter with AI coming in. But we hadn't imagined it would ge... Read More


Navi Mum jewellery firm duped of Rs.10.7 cr in WhatsApp fraud

NAVI MUMBAI, July 18 -- A jewellery company in Navi Mumbai was allegedly duped of Rs.10.70 crore after fraudsters created a WhatsApp profile using the owner's name and photograph and convinced an acco... Read More


Contractor gets pre-arrest bail in Rs.65-cr Mithi desilting scam

MUMBAI, July 18 -- A sessions court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to contractor Lokesh Onkarlal Jain, an accused in the alleged Rs.65-crore Mithi river desilting scam, holding that the EOW had f... Read More