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Cops bust Satara MD factory, seize rRs.r115 cr contraband

India, Dec. 14 -- The police crime branch has busted a drug manufacturing unit operating from a farm in Jawali, Satara and seized 7.5 kg of solid Mephedrone (MD), 38 kg of liquid MD, and large quantit... Read More


State govt rejects Union minister's remark on retaining IIT Bombay name

India, Dec. 14 -- The Maharashtra government on Saturday strongly objected to a remark made by Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh, who had said last month that he was "g... Read More


Additional FSI announced for redevelopment of buildings on defence land, in protected zones

India, Dec. 14 -- Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday announced in the legislative assembly that the government would allot additional incentive FSI to enable the redevelopment of old and dil... Read More


CIDCO cuts Navi Mumbai home prices by 10%, lottery for 17,000 flats in two months

India, Dec. 14 -- There is relief in store for homebuyers in Navi Mumbai, with deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday announcing a flat 10% reduction in the prices of housing units built by t... Read More


State moves to fill lecturer vacancies in colleges

India, Dec. 14 -- The government has begun taking steps to fill the hundreds of posts of lecturers and assistant professors lying vacant in universities and colleges across the state, said higher and ... Read More


ED seizes rRs.r9.7 crore, freezes 25 accounts in ISIS-linked money laundering probe

India, Dec. 14 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized movable assets worth Rs.9.70 crore, including Rs.3.7 crore in cash and gold jewellery and bullion valued at Rs.6 crore, during extensive s... Read More


Posing as cops, thieves rob rRs.r2 crore from infra firm employees

India, Dec. 14 -- Two employees of an infrastructure firm, on the way to deliver Rs.2 crore to a client, were looted by a duo pretending to be Crime Branch officers. The thieves, who arrived on a Roya... Read More


Second Mumbai-Pune Expressway soon, says Gadkari

India, Dec. 14 -- A second Mumbai-Pune Expressway parallel to the existing one, a new expressway from Pune to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, and a major infrastructure boost for Pune - these were some of ... Read More


Mumbai's palate challenges fixed ideas of 'native' politics

India, Dec. 14 -- In Mumbai, nativist politics play out in several spheres. The most fraught is, of course, language, followed by history, cinema - and food. In the past, vada pao, poha and zunka bhak... Read More


Liberty of suspect principle links India-Lanka judiciaries, says Sri Lankan Chief Justice Surasena

India, Dec. 14 -- Sri Lankan Chief Justice Padman Surasena, who was on a three-day official visit to India, spoke to HT on a wide range of issues, including the shared constitutional traditions of Ind... Read More