Once owned by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, an eatery on the narrow Pakmodia Street in South Mumbai, a green sedan and tenancy rights to a property in suburban Matunga will on Wednesday go under the hammer in Mumbai.
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Gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli was on Friday convicted along with 11 others by the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court for their involvement in the murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar over four years back.
The special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court on Friday convicted gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli for the murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar. The court also convicted 11 other accused in the case for which the sentence will be pronounced on August 27
'I reached Bhopal the day after the gas tragedy; the smell was still in the air. It was a professional hazard but I was not scared.'
As counting is underway for the civic bodies in Maharashtra, and all eyes are on Mumbai's cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Here are a list of some of the big winners and losers from these elections.
'Every man in the hot seat needs trusted cops to grind their axe with political opponents.' 'And that's what explains Waze's importance; him investigating the fake TRP scandal, his arrest of TV journalist Arnab Goswami, and heading the investigation into the Antilia bomb scare case.'
Infra experts say govt will first need to figure out how to exploit real estate along the proposed routes.
A 13-year-old boy died due to Holi colour poisoning while undergoing treatment at a hospital in suburban Ghatkopar in Mumbai, civic officials said on Friday.
The insatiable greed for money and power is too large, too repugnant to thwart. And no one epitomised that better than Harshad Mehta, notes Dhruv Munjal.
A decade after 2002 Ghatkopar bomb blast accused Khwaja Yunus was allegedly killed in police custody, the Maharashtra government is yet to pay compensation of Rs 17 lakh to his mother on orders of Bombay high court.
Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar visits the house of diamond trader Chadrakant Wanker, who was killed in the blast at Opera House in Mumbai on July 13, 2011. Resigned to fate and hopes of help, the Wankers are still at loss of words to describe their loss.
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Opposing government's decision to allow foreign direct investment in the retail sector, deputy leader of Bharatiya Janata Party in Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde on Sunday said that they would not allow proceedings to take place in the Parliament on Monday.
The Mumbai police probing the killing of veteran reporter J Dey on Saturday searched the residence of journalist Jigna Vora who was arrested in the case on Friday and seized her laptop.
A day after Maharahstra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray warned that arrogant auto rickshaw unions would attract public ire, reports of attacks on auto rickshaws have been surfacing from different parts of Mumbai.
Maharashtra Public Works Department Minister Chhagan Bhujbal and a large number of media persons had turned up to pay their last respects to the senior journalist.
'In the second wave, probably due to the mutants, probably due to COVID-19-inappropriate behaviour, we are seeing it coming in the younger population, say from ages 30 to 50.' 'Also, we've seen that sometimes they deteriorate pretty rapidly and therefore we may need to keep a closer watch on the symptoms and on the oxygen levels at home.'
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R-Infra in its argument had told the high court that it was losing upto Rs 85 lakh a day despite being used by nearly 250,000 commuters
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MMOPL has already taken a decision to extend the fare slab of Rs 10 to Rs 40.
Wazhul Kamar Khan, whose name figures in the '50 most wanted' fugitives list, has been staying in Thane district near Mumbai, police sources said on Tuesday. Khan, who was arrested last year for his alleged role in the 2003 Mulund train blasts in Mumbai, has been living in Thane's Waghle Estate with his mother, wife and children after he was let out on bail.Khan was also involved in the 2003 Vile Parle and Ghatkopar blasts besides the 2002 Mumbai Central blasts.
Mumbai's Metro rail system, which is scheduled to take off by next year, will have a Geographic Information System for mapping the entire rail tracks and nearby areas to enhance safety, maintenance and traffic regulation.
We spoke with a handful of aspirants at the CAT testing centre in Ghatkopar, Mumbai. Find out what they had to say.
The Mumbai police on Wednesday arrested Maharashtra Navnirman Sena candidate from Ghatkopar (west) Ram Kadam for allegedly assaulting policemen and election officials during polling. The police also cane-charged MNS activists who protested against Kadam's arrest. Hundreds of activists gathered when police reached Kadam's residence to arrest him on Wednesday, Vatkar said, adding that the crowd broke the windowpanes of police vans.
Heavy rains in Mumbai caused major water logging in areas like Lower Parel on Saturday, leaving residents and commuters stranded, and causing a huge traffic gridlock.
The Maharashtra government is leaving no stone unturned to ensure security for Rahul Gandhi, who has proceeded to address a youth congress function at Ghatkopar after attending another meeting in the Ville Parle area in the city.
The police arrested 46 troublemakers in Mumbai.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday called upon the youth of Mumbai to focus on the inclusive development of India and stay away from divisive politics.
Slain Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan's daughter Poonam, who is contesting the October 13 Maharashtra assembly polls from suburban Ghatkopar, owns assets worth Rs 12 crore.
As many as 51 'Govindas' were injured in Mumbai.
In its first list of candidates for the assembly elections, BJP announced the names of 66 candidates of which 23 are sitting MLAs who have been given the tickets.
Confidence had ebbed in the last few years due to default by some errant domestic retailers and exporters. Moreover, many jewellers are believed to have diverted the fund collected through monthly deposit schemes to pay 'mark-to-market' margins on various loans.
Dr Abdul Matin is one of the prime accused in the blast outside Ghatkopar railway station in December 2002.
Slain Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan's son Rahul, who is gearing up for his next TV reality show Swayamwar-Season 2, will be campaigning for sister Poonam for the October 13 assembly elections.Poonam filed her nomination as a BJP candidate from Ghatkopar constituency in suburban Mumbai on Wednesday. Rahul, who accompanied Poonam, said he would campaign for his sister.
Swine flu claimed its fourth victim in Mumbai on Thursday when a 35-year-old man died of the disease at a civic hospital on Thursday evening. Dattatraya Gawde, a resident of suburban Ghatkopar, died at the Kasturba Hospital, Additional Municipal Commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar said."When he was brought to the hospital on August 18, he had acute respiratory distress syndrome and was put on a ventilator," Mhaiskar said.
Mumbaikars travelling to work faced a harrowing time on Tuesday morning owing to waterlogging caused by the incessant rain since Monday night.
The massive crowds of devotees in temples, elaborately decorated tableaus and Dahi Handi revelry were all missing this year on Janmashtami, the birthday of Lord Krishna, as celebrations were dampened by COVID-19 restrictions.
A metallic structure supporting main concrete pillars at Mumbai's under-construction Metro line, in the north-western suburb of Sakinaka, collapsed on Monday night. No one was injured in the incident, which took place at 11.30 pm on Monday night, when work was going on at the construction site of the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar metro rail. The incident comes two days after six people were killed when an under-construction pillar collapsed at a Delhi Metro site.
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