Mumbai: The Congress’ Mumbai unit will stage agitations at 21 suburban railway stations on Thursday to highlight the increasing prices of petrol and diesel and inflation which has hit the common masses hard, a top party official said. The agitations will be led by Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) President Sanjay[Read More…]
Angel investor Mahesh Murthy who was arrested in Mumbai in connection with a molestation case was released on a surety bond on Friday evening. Murthy, the founder and Chief executive officer of Digital Agency Pinstorm was arrested in Khar for allegedly harassing and stalking a Delhi based woman on social media. “We have arrested him[Read More…]
Mumbai: Taking a grim view of the suicide by an octogenarian peasant demanding fair compensation for his acquired lands, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday warned its ruling ally BJP that Dharma Patil’s funeral pyre will destroy the BJP government. Condemning the incident which happened in the state government Mantralaya where[Read More…]
New Delhi: Advocate Chintaman N. Vanga, BJP Lok Sabha MP from Palghar in Maharashtra, passed away following a massive heart attack in a New Delhi hospital on Tuesday afternoon, a party official said. According to an official, Vanga was rushed to a Delhi hospital after he suffered a heart attack but[Read More…]
Nashik: A court here on Saturday awarded the death sentence to all six convicts in the honour killings of three Dalit youths in Ahmednagar in 2013. The Nashik District Sessions Court had pronounced the six guilty and acquitted one in the case, on Monday in its much-anticipated verdict. Special Public Prosecutor[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra government to share all the documents relating to the death of Special CBI Judge B.H. Loya with the petitioners seeking independent probe and adjourned the matter for seven days. “This is a matter, they must get everything. There should not be any[Read More…]
Five wrestlers and a driver were killed in a major road accident in Sangli district of Maharashtra early on Saturday, police said. The accident took place around 1 a.m. when an SUV carrying the grapplers rammed headlong into an oncoming tractor carrying sugarcane. Five others, including wrestlers, were injured in[Read More…]
Thirteen days after the Mumbai pub blaze, the city police made a breakthrough and arrested three owners of the 1Above restaurant from Bandra late Wednesday, an official said on Thursday. They would be produced before a court here on Thursday afternoon, the official said. The three absconding owners — Kripesh[Read More…]
A massive fire broke out in the Mumbai City and Sessions Court building in Fort, southern part of the city here on Monday. According to the BMC Disaster Control, the fire was noticed on the third floor around 7 a.m., and eight fire-tenders have rushed to the spot to douse[Read More…]
The Union Home Ministry on Thursday said it was keeping a close eye on violent incidents in Maharashtra and was in constant touch with the state government. A Home Ministry official said the Centre “has received a factual report from the Maharashtra government regarding the clashes in the state”. At[Read More…]
Angry protests erupted and anti-government slogans were raised on Thursday as the police abruptly refused permission for a convention to be attended by Gujarat Dalit legislator Jignesh Mevani and JNU student leader Umar Khalid. Confirming the development, a Mumbai police spokesperson said that the permission has been denied for the[Read More…]
Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh President Prakash Ambedkar called off it’s Maharashtra Shutdown‘ which left large parts of Mumbai and rest of the state virtually paralysed for 10 hours since dawn on Wednesday. “The shutdown was peaceful and has evoked a huge response all over. I thank all my supporters for making[Read More…]
Two managers of a pub have been arrested in connection with the inferno at the Kamala Mills Compound here on December 29 which claimed 14 lives and injured another 55, an official said on Monday. The two are employees of 1Above, Kevin Bawa, 35 and Lisbon Lopez, 34, who were[Read More…]
A day after the tragic fire in a pub which claimed 14 lives, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s demolition squads went hammer and tongs after illegal fittings, extensions and obstacles at various locations here on Saturday. A team went to the Kamala Mills Compound and demolished allegedly unauthorized extensions, fittings[Read More…]
Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant on Friday demanded a judicial probe into the fire at a pub in Mumbai in which 14 persons were killed, while raising the issue in the Lok Sabha. The issue was first raised by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Kirit Somaiya who said the pub[Read More…]
At least 14 people were killed, 21 others hurt when a major fire broke out in a pub in the Kamla Mills Compound early on Friday, an official said. The blaze was reported around 12.30 a.m. from a bistro The Mojo, a rooftop restaurant pub in The Kamla Trade House[Read More…]
The Indian Railways on Monday flagged off the country’s first air-conditioned suburban local train for Mumbai commuters, 150 years after the first suburban local was hauled by a steam engine in 1867, officials said. The Christmas and pre-New Year bonanza saw the first AC local’s maiden run for the media,[Read More…]
BJP Maharashtra leader Nana Patole announced on Friday that he had resigned from the Lok Sabha and quit the party too. Patole, elected from Bhandara-Gondiya, said he had submitted his resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and also the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership. Meghalaya assembly’s three-day session to begin[Read More…]
At least seven suspected Maoists, including five women, were killed in a gun-battle near Zinganur forests here on Wednesday, official sources said. The security forces managed to overcome the firepower of the Maoists in the deep jungles and eliminated seven of the attackers, according to officials. Details of the extremists[Read More…]
On a day notification was issued for the election to choose the next, a party functionary from Maharashtra on Friday raised more questions over the election process. Maharashtra Congress Secretary Shehzad Poonawalla alleged that party’s spokesperson Manish Tewari had told him during a conversation that the Congress was a “proprietorship”[Read More…]
Some unknown persons vandalised the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee office at Azad Maidan here on Friday morning, a party official said. The incident occurred around 8 am, when the cleaning work was underway and around half a dozen people suddenly barged inside. Using sticks and other things they destroyed glass[Read More…]
A Special Court on Wednesday awarded the death sentence to all three accused in the rape and brutal murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Kopardi village in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district in July 2016. The convicts are: Jitendra alias Pappu Babulal Shinde, 26, Santosh Gorkha Bhawal, 30, and Nitin Gopinath Bhailume,[Read More…]
Under fire for his ‘sexist’ remark that liquor brands be named after women to boost sales, Maharashtra Water Resources Minister Girish Mahajan on Monday profusely apologised, saying he had no intentions to hurt women’s sentiments. Amidst a furore with ally Shiv Sena and most opposition parties like the Congress, the[Read More…]
As the Narendra Modi government proceeds with the grandiose plans for a Bullet Train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, a RTI query has revealed that over 40 percent of seats on all the trains on this sector go vacant causing huge losses to Western Railway. According to RTI replies received by[Read More…]
Bihar is among the top three states where the response to information in the first appeal either does not come or is insufficient as per the data on the number of second appeals and complaints filed at information commissions. This shows that the bureaucracy is unwilling to act unless it[Read More…]
