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Debtor arrested 13 years after using fake gold to get Rs.76L loan

MUMBAI, Sept. 1 -- Nine years after a bank realised fake gold ornaments were used as collateral to secure loans, the Mira-Bhayandar-Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police arrested the absconding borrower on Saturd... Read More


Dharashiv docs step in as maladies strike protesters

MUMBAI, Sept. 1 -- As the Maratha quota agitation in Mumbai entered its third day, a health crisis unfolded at Azad Maidan with hundreds of protesters reporting viral fever, gastrointestinal infection... Read More


'No more water': Fasting activist ups ante

MUMBAI, Sept. 1 -- As the Maratha agitation entered its fourth day without a single Mahayuti minister meeting Manoj Jarange-Patil, the reservation activist accused the state government of ignoring his... Read More


MVA, Mahayuti blame each other for Maratha vs OBC polarisation

Mumbai, Sept. 1 -- Leaders from the ruling Mahayuti and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliances have started blaming each other for driving a wedge between Marathas and Other Backward Classes... Read More


Hunger, filthy toilets, foul-smelling water: How protesters coped on third day of stir

MUMBAI, Sept. 1 -- Azad Maidan has become both a battlefield of resolve and a picture of squalor, as the Maratha quota agitation entered its third day on Sunday. Thousands of protesters, many of them ... Read More


Diversions, more cops and staff for SoBo office-goers

Mumbai, Sept. 1 -- After a long weekend where streets of SoBo were flooded with supporters of the Maratha leader Manoj Jarange Patil, the state authorities are working overtime to make sure office-goe... Read More


Supriya Sule meets Jarange-Patil, heckled by angry Maratha activists

MUMBAI, Sept. 1 -- NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule, daughter of party chief Sharad Pawar, was in Azad Maidan on Sunday afternoon to meet Jarange-Patil. When she reached the stage, the activist was resting an... Read More


Rlys eyes Rs.6k cr via leasing 2 plots

Mumbai, Sept. 1 -- Indian Railways (IR) has decided to put two underutilised plots at prime locations in Mahalaxmi and Bandra on the block in a bid to raise revenues. The Rail Land Development Authori... Read More


No sub-quota for totally blind: HC

Mumbai, Sept. 1 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday refused to carve out a separate reservation for totally-blind candidates within the 1% quota earmarked for "blindness and low vision" under the Right... Read More


DRI seizes 2 leopard skins in inter-state op

MUMBAI, Sept. 1 -- The Mumbai zonal unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized two leopard skins and apprehended four suspected members of a wildlife trafficking network as part ... Read More