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SC orders Maharashtra DGP to pick SIT

MUMBAI, May 6 -- The Supreme Court on Monday accepted the Maharashtra government's demand to get director general of police Rashmi Shukla to pick the special investigation team (SIT) to probe the enco... Read More


one dead, 28 injured as bus overturns on Mum-Goa Hwy

NAVI MUMBAI, May 6 -- One passenger died and 28 were injured after a bus overturned on the Mumbai-Goa highway near Panvel on Sunday. The bus driver has been arrested for rash and dangerous driving tha... Read More


CBI arrests two linked to digital arrest scam

MUMBAI, May 6 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two key operatives of an organised crime syndicate in Mumbai that allegedly extorted Rs.7.67 crore from a victim by placing them... Read More


SC summons Samay Raina, 4 others for 'ridiculing' disabled persons

New Delhi, May 6 -- The Supreme Court on Monday summoned five stand-up comics including Samay Raina over offensive and derogatory remarks made against persons with disabilities, even as it stressed th... Read More


Ladki Bahin payout will not be hiked: Shirsat

MUMBAI, May 6 -- Social welfare minister Sanjay Shirsat on Monday said the Ladki Bahin stipend could not be raised to Rs.2,100. This is for the first time that a minister has said on record that the p... Read More


BMC to move top court after HC declares Kanjurmarg landfill a protected forest

MUMBAI, May 6 -- The Bombay High Court order restoring Mumbai's only active landfill at Kanjurmarg to the status of a "protected forest" has left the civic authorities in a bind. With the 142-hectare ... Read More


SC-ST funds are never released in full by finance dept: Data

MUMBAI, May 6 -- Although the recent diversion of Rs.746 crore meant for the scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) to the Ladki Bahin scheme has stirred up a controversy, data shows that d... Read More


HC directs BMC to survey 'illegal' mosque in Oshiwara

Mumbai, May 6 -- The Bombay high court on Monday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to survey a playground in Oshiwara and ascertain if a mosque and madrassa had been constructed th... Read More


Kotaks break own record, buy Worli flat at Rs.2.75L/sq ft

Mumbai, May 6 -- Billionaire banker Uday Kotak and his family have made the country's most expensive real estate purchase, buying a flat in the 19 Shiv Sagar building at Worli Sea Face at Rs.2,74,784 ... Read More


Mentally ill person can take custody of child, observes court

MUMBAI, May 6 -- A person with a mental illness is not disqualified from taking custody of a child unless it is proved that the illness endangers the child's welfare, the sessions court said recently ... Read More