Mayura is Deputy Associate Editor and covers the state of Goa. She joined the Indian Express in 2011 and earlier reported from Mumbai and Delhi. She has covered beats including law, politics and administration. She was City Editor, Mumbai before she moved to Goa in 2021.
October 31, 2012 00:24 IST
Much to be said about both sides,says high court
Wed, Oct 31, 2012October 29, 2012 00:28 IST
The police raid at LIV lounge and bar on Saturday,in which 110-120 guests were rounded up,was a major jolt for Mumbais party-lovers.
Mon, Oct 29, 2012October 12, 2012 02:32 IST
Piyush Parekh,the insecticide and pesticide distributor who was arrested in July in connection with the suspicious death of Versova siblings Rameez and Rehab Chougule,moved the Bombay High Court on Thursday urging it to quash the FIR accusing him of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Fri, Oct 12, 2012September 26, 2012 01:52 IST
The arrest was made following the July 26,2008,Ahmedabad and Surat blasts,for which IM had claimed responsibility in emails sent to the media minutes before the strikes.
Wed, Sep 26, 2012September 25, 2012 02:54 IST
Mere presence at discussion or dinner party cant amount to membership of an organised crime syndicate or terrorist organisation: HC
Tue, Sep 25, 2012September 25, 2012 01:11 IST
Ahmedabad,Surat blasts: Held for allegedly being IM member
Tue, Sep 25, 2012September 19, 2012 07:01 IST
HC has the power to initiate suo motu action in public interest.
Wed, Sep 19, 2012
September 18, 2012 03:12 IST
Upholding death to cab drivers Purshottam Borale (26) and Pradeep Kokade (20) for abducting,raping and murdering a Pune BPO employee,a division bench of Bombay High Court (HC) comprising Justices V M Kanade and P D Kode said on Monday it would request the Chief Justice to take note of the need for women's safety through a PIL so that corrective measures become binding on public as well as private companies.
Tue, Sep 18, 2012September 18, 2012 01:03 IST
HC has the power to initiate suo motu action in public interest.
Tue, Sep 18, 2012September 18, 2012 00:53 IST
The Bombay High Court on Monday upheld capital punishment awarded to two convicted for the gangrape and murder of BPO employee Jyotikumari in Pune in 2007
Tue, Sep 18, 2012September 14, 2012 03:45 IST
Born to a live-in couple who have since parted ways,a three-year-old is at the centre of an unprecedented legal battle for her custody
Fri, Sep 14, 2012September 10, 2012 01:24 IST
The transfer of civil suits from the Bombay High Court to the City Civil and Sessions Court that was effected this month is likely to ease the burden on the courts original side by 70-80 per cent,Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa (BCMG) chairman V B Konde-Deshmukh said on Saturday.
Mon, Sep 10, 2012September 09, 2012 01:57 IST
Expo for senior citizens on September 15-16
Sun, Sep 09, 2012September 08, 2012 02:14 IST
The opposition to cosmopolitan Mumbais liberal way of life,unfortunately,comes largely from within the quick-to-judge middle-class Maharashtrian population.
Sat, Sep 08, 2012September 07, 2012 02:55 IST
The custody battle between an estranged live-in couple took an interesting turn on Thursday with the man filing an affidavit in the Bombay High Court that his partner was a bar dancer in Abu Dhabi and should not be allowed to keep their three-year-old daughter.
Fri, Sep 07, 2012September 04, 2012 04:05 IST
In perhaps the first-of-its-kind custody battle between a live-in couple,the Bombay High Court permitted a man on Monday to retain custody of his three-year-old daughter till it arrives at a decision.
Tue, Sep 04, 2012September 04, 2012 01:26 IST
The couple met in 2007 in Abu Dhabi,where they were employed in a restaurant.
Tue, Sep 04, 2012August 28, 2012 06:14 IST
Former chief minister Ashok Chavan,one of the main accused in the Adarsh Housing Society scam,on Monday filed an application in Bombay High Court seeking the quashing of the FIR filed against him by the CBI on January 29,2011.
Tue, Aug 28, 2012August 28, 2012 03:46 IST
Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan,one of the main accused in the Adarsh Housing Society scam,on Monday filed an application in Bombay High Court seeking the quashing of the FIR filed against him by CBI on January 29,2011
Tue, Aug 28, 2012August 05, 2012 03:04 IST
The Bombay High Court recently directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to pay appropriate pension to 20 trained teachers who retired between 2003 and 2010,and observed that pension is not charity by the employer.
Sun, Aug 05, 2012August 02, 2012 03:46 IST
The Bombay High Court granted bail to two gas cylinder delivery boys booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in a cylinder blast at a bakery in Trombay which killed 12 people.
Thu, Aug 02, 2012July 30, 2012 06:34 IST
Thirty-one years ago when an unwed mother surrendered her month-old baby at an orphanage,little did she imagine that her daughter would find a way into her life while she battled cancer at the age of 53.
Mon, Jul 30, 2012July 30, 2012 00:54 IST
Carina Roodenburg adopted by a Dutch couple in 1982 from Pune was reunited with her biological mother (name withheld) in Dhankawadi,Pune,last week
Mon, Jul 30, 2012July 26, 2012 00:48 IST
Opposing the anticipatory bail application filed by the DJ brothers,who were among the 90 people rounded up by the police at an alleged rave party in Juhu
Thu, Jul 26, 2012July 23, 2012 06:52 IST
The Supreme Court last week observed that while handing out a death sentence,a court is duty-bound to examine the mitigating circumstances in favour of an accused even if the accused fails to come forward with them.
Mon, Jul 23, 2012


