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Mock drills in 8 districts, largest at Cross Maidan

Mumbai, May 7 -- Following instructions from the Centre, the state government will hold mock drills in eight districts of Maharashtra including Mumbai at 4 pm on Wednesday. The drills have been planne... Read More


HC pulls up police for 'copy-paste culture'

MUMBAI, May 7 -- The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court on Tuesday took suo-motu (on its own) cognisance of the "copy-paste" culture among investigating officers while recording witness stateme... Read More


Bizman loses vision after eye surgery, alleges negligence

Mumbai, May 7 -- A 67-year-old Navi Mumbai-based businessman, Rajendra Hardayal Gupta, has approached the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) and Vashi police, alleging that he permanently lost vision i... Read More


Cop suspended for violating protocol while arresting doc

MUMBAI, May 7 -- Mumbai police commissioner Deven Bharti on Tuesday suspended senior police inspector Ravindra Katkar for registering a First Information Report (FIR) against a doctor and arresting hi... Read More


duo held for trafficking Wildlife articles

MUMBAI, May 7 -- Two people accused of illegal trade of wildlife articles were apprehended on Sunday by the Mumbai unit of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. Two leopard skins with heads and a boar'... Read More


FY courses to begin one month early

MUMBAI, May 7 -- For the first time, first-year undergraduate classes in colleges affiliated to the University of Mumbai will begin as early as June 13. In contrast, the last academic year had begun o... Read More


HC sets aside eviction fiat after 50 years

MUMBAI, May 7 -- The Bombay high court on Monday set aside two orders of the Maharashtra Revenue Tribunal from 1975 which divested an 82-year-old agriculturalist of the land he was cultivating in Have... Read More


Bldg to make way for more 15-car trains

MUMBAI, May 7 -- The "abandoned" sign on a ground-plus-three storey building at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) spells good news for commuters on the Central Railway (CR). The CR office bu... Read More


pre-arrest bail for cardiologist dr Lekha Pathak

MUMBAI, May 7 -- The sessions court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to cardiologist Dr Lekha Pathak, who was booked for allegedly obtaining the pension of the late Ramrao Adik claiming to be his w... Read More


HC strikes down Cidco's Rs.3,477 cr infra contracts in NAINA region

MUMBAI, May 7 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday struck down Cidco's decision to disqualify the bids submitted by the Thakur-EVRASCON Joint Venture (JV), for two major infrastructure development work... Read More