“They are facing trauma and are under shock right now. Soon, they will mourn and get angry before they reconcile with the loss,” said Shweta Damle of HALWA.
Senior Counsel V A Thorat, for the state government, told the court that public hearing was required only in those cases where a project affects human habitation and that in this case, people were not affected and so, there is no need to conduct a public hearing.
The CBI had told the court that after going through the merits of the order of discharge, it has taken a conscious decision not to carry it further.
In the kitchen of Mashhad, a restaurant at Taj Santacruz, chef Gavin Gonsalves’ face is hellish green and the words “Eat or Die” are painted on his deliberately stained white apron.
When the GST regime had kicked in last July, the government had adopted a uniform rule to compensate urban bodies for loss of income suffered due to the subsuming of various local body taxes, including the entry tax, local body tax, octroi and various development cesses, among others.
Sources said that most of these plots have been allotted at a nominal ground rent of Rs 1 per square meter or at highly concessional rates.
Haque, now posted with the CBI, was the superintendent of Pune Rural Police when the violence had broken out. It was his team that had arrested Ekbote on charges of hatching a conspiracy to trigger violence.
The court was hearing a petition moved by Navlakha, Teltumbde and Swamy seeking to quash the FIR lodged by Pune Police on January 1 in connection with the Koregaon Bhima violence.
The court also directed the CIDCO to preserve the lakes of Navi Mumbai. It named two particular, one behind Delhi Public School and another near Indian Maritime University.
Sources said the arrests have revealed how cartels are exploiting the porous Indo-Myanmar border to smuggle items ranging from gold, spices, betel nuts and cigarettes.
In an editorial in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana, the party said: “Chief Minister, you should not play with fire of Saamana. What you got due to Modi’s blessings will be burnt in Saamana’s fire... Saamana is the people’s loudspeaker and is the mirror for liars.”
Of the 489 tankers, while 394 are from private entiries, 95 have been supplied by the government. The highest number of tankers have been deployed in Aurangabad region (270), followed by Nashik region (178).
Cyrus Katrak has been accused of cheating Andheri West-based automobile dealer Sanjay Mehta in 2014. Police said Katrak agreed to purchase several high-end cars from Mehta and issued him 17 cheques, worth Rs 22.60 crore. However, the cheques bounced and Katrak allegedly refused to pay up.
In 2017, the Supreme Court directed that a pathologist must counter-sign laboratory reports, even if it is signed by a technician.
Civic chief said BMC will follow the court orders
Since October 22, the drivers have been protesting against low income and demanding increase in the minimum base fares of the cab services.
In a report, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation had said the blaze started at Mojo’s Bistro when a flying ember from coal served on a hookah touched a curtain. The BMC claimed inflammable objects kept in the open-terrace establishment led to the fire spreading to adjacent 1Above.
In the new time-table, the WR has added 10 new services and extended 122 others. While the route of 56 services have been changed, the number of stoppages of 26 trains have been reduced to make the services faster.
The accused, arrested from his Shanti Nagar residence in Wadala, told the police that he robbed the student, as he had to undergo a surgery for which he was in urgent need of money.
As he rests in his Juhu home, sharing a room with five others, the migrant from Assam, requesting anonymity, told The Indian Express that his foot accidentally got entangled in a concrete-cutting machine while working in Vile Parle East on September 15.
The BEST is facing losses of more than Rs 1,000 crore. In the budget estimates released for 2019-20 on Monday, the undertaking has showed an estimated deficit of Rs 844.71 crore for its transport wing.
The 15-year-old Dalit boy was killed in 2016 allegedly over an inter-caste relationship. The Nerul police had later arrested family members of the girl Sonavane was in a relationship with. The three accused granted bail include the girl’s brother.
Arguing for petitioner Conservation Action Trust, Senior Counsel Aspi Chinoy and lawyer Gulnar Mistry told the court that in 2015, the central government had issued a notification changing the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) rules and permitted construction of monuments and the memorial.
Mayure worked as a labour contractor and the couple got married a year ago, said the police. An officer from Bhandup police station said Mayure often suspected that his wife was involved with a man from the neighbourhood.
According to police, the complainant Heena Charla, a manufacturer and distributor of joss sticks, approached the Crime Branch in the first week of October with a case of cheating.





