What Indrani doesn't know is that even if she is handed down a sentence of not guilty by the judge at the end of the long and meandering Sheena Bora murder trial, for India's legion of armchair judges, she will always be guilty. She won't be able to change that. Ever.
After bidding adieu to his technology firm, this ex-Citibanker-turned-poet is now indulging in his latest passion of providing affordable housing for the masses.
The pain in Priti Sawant's eyes is heart-wrenching, but her belief that her husband will rise from that hospital bed is a lesson in courage.
Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist from the November 26 terrorist attack on Mumbai who was shifted to Arthur Road Jail for an identification parade, was brought back to Crime Branch lock-up on Monday, police sources said. "About 20 witnesses, who participated in the identification parade, have identified Kasab. He was brought back to the Crime Branch in the wee hours," one officer said.
Eyewitness account of explosion in Vile Parle, north Mumbai
Indrani called her personal assistant Kajal Sharma from the UK, May 3, 2012, and told her she had to sign Sheena's resignation letter as if she was Sheena signing it. But she had to first practice the signature and send Indrani proof of her proficiency in signing Sheena's name before sending the letter off. Sharma said she was reluctant and told the court that she told Indrani as much, but Indrani demanded it of her.
'Every traffic police station in the city has a policeman designated unofficially as the 'cashier.' 'His job is to collect the bribes and, at the end of every month, distribute this money among the cops according to rank.'
The woman, identified as Indrajiet Kaur, was driving her Huyndai Getz on the busy Tulsi Pipe road in Central Mumbai when she suddenly lost control and rammed into bystanders.
The video of the girl being "manhandled" by the women constables at the famous Ganesh pandal had gone viral, prompting the police to launch a probe.
Ever since Mekhail had first entered the courtroom, he had, it would seem, never once looked at his mother, though they were a few metres away from each other. Curiosity, residual regard, memories, anger, none of it, could make him even look at the woman who gave birth to him. Was his hatred so overpowering?
Spotted newly-minted Man Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga outside the rediff.com office in Mahim, central Mumbai
A real estate developer, one of the accused held in the 2011 senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder case and who was suspected to be a close aide of underworld don Chhota Rajan, died at a private hospital on Friday following liver failure, police said.
'My biggest contribution is the creation of the first 'modern Indian law firm',' Cyril Shroff tells Sudipto Dey.
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If it was not for him, the Mumbai police could not have captured the sole terrorist alive, the only source of first-hand information about the evil perpetrators behind the heinous attacks.
It is the highest rainfall of the season so far in 24 hours.
A delegation of shop owners on Friday requested Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray to extend the deadline for Marathi signboards by three months. With festivals like Ganesh Chaturthi, Dusshera and Diwali round the corner, shop owners need some time to put up Marathi boards and change interior of the shops accordingly, they said.
Maruti Warke's basic understanding illustrated how far outside the system most less privileged Indians are -- simple, innocent people barely but admirably eking out an existence, with almost no knowledge of their surroundings or owning even the basic smarts to go about life. The same people who instinctively and often astutely vote governments into and out of office in New Delhi without knowing the entire reality of this country. The folks who are actually the essence of India.
Here's how a young engineering student caught Rahul Gandhi's attention when he visited the Xavier's College of Engineering in suburban Mahim.
'If Mr Modi continues growing as a Hindu Hriday Samrat, better that it is done by restoring ancient temples than demolishing medieval mosques,' says Shekhar Gupta.
'There was the indisputable fact that Savarkar knew Godse, Apte and Karkare well, he had corresponded with them closely, and funded their extremely provocative newspaper, and they looked up to him as their icon.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf explains how two cases separated by ideological motives were curiously similar on one account.
Nature's Basket is changing its offering. Its new strategy zeroes in on pushing joint ventures, focusing on private labels and reentering Delhi.
The MTV office at Parel in Mumbai was attacked on Wednesday by a a group of Sikh activists who were protesting against the 'offensive portrayal of a Sikh' in a poster used to promote one of their shows.
In the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks, the Art of Living Foundation will offer free trauma relief workshops for Mumbaikars from December 1.These sessions will be conducted in South and Central Mumbai and will be open to all.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf walks the streets of Mahim, where Yakub Memon grew up and lived till the day before the serial blasts in 1993, on the day Yakub was hanged and discovers an undercurrent of unease and restrained anger.
A look at few marquee projects that are stuck for several reasons.
Mumbai dancers fuse lyrical hip hop and b-boying with elements of American cheerleading and trapeze-esque bits from the circus.
A gas bottle carried by one of the passengers exploded inside a Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus-bound local train standing on the platform number two of the Sion station in Mumbai, injuring five people. The nature of the gas in the bottle was not immediately known, railway sources said.
The unexpected presence of cops stunned Kaskar, as he asked them maine kya kiya hai?
'These guys did not even issue an apology to me and were taken back into the party.' 'They were reinstated on the grounds that they will contribute to the Congress campaign.'
A fire broke out because of a suspected leakage in an oil pipeline passing through a land owned by the Mumbai Port Trust in Wadala in central Mumbai, but no one was injured.
'Isn't it hypocritical that we who berate the religious minorities day after day for not 'assimilating fully' with the majority, whatever we mean by that, are loath to do the same when it comes to language?'
Actor Navin Nischol, who was charged with abetting the suicide of his wife, acquitted by a sessions court in Mumbai on Tuesday.Geetanjali Nischol, who hung herself at her house at Mahim in central Mumbai in May 2008, had held Navin and his elder brother Praveen responsible for her decision to end life.
The all-women's team of Ami and Niyati Kacheria won the Sportcraft-organised Mumbai to Khandala Gulf Foster A Child Rally on Sunday.
Shah Rukh Khan had David Letterman in his grip, giving him no quarter whatsoever, declares Sreehari Nair.
Sudheendra Kulkarni on Tuesday described himself as an "agent of peace" and asked Shiv Sena to respect other people's freedom of expression.
'A man, probably a lawyer, in black trousers and a white shirt, next to me, was talking to a woman in white.' 'My stock-taking stopped frozen in its tracks.' 'I was sitting almost right next to Indrani Mukerjea.'
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