The police today filed a chargesheet, against four accused in connection with the July 31 gang-rape of an 18-year-old telephone operator on the premises of Shakti Mills compound in Mumbai.
The Indian Sugar Mills' Association, the industry lobby group, will take the proposal to Food & Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar soon, sources close to the development said.
The municipal body has directed its officials to form teams to ensure that all the restaurants are fire safety compliant in view of the New Year celebrations.
The government is likely to pay sugar mills Rs 4 per kg more for the sweetener it procures for distribution through ration shops, to offset the rise in prices of sugarcane over the last few years.
Romance fiction series Mills and Boon is now foraying into regional languages to perk up sales.
The fire probably started at Mojo's and spread to the adjacent rooftop pub '1 Above', the report said.
The court will now decide whether to accept the report or direct the agency to continue the investigation and file a chargesheet.
Decks have been cleared by the Centre to transfer the prime land at Indu Mills in Mumbai to the Maharashtra government for constructing a memorial for B R Amedkar. "The government of India has taken a view to make available this land for use to the government of Maharashtra for the construction of a befitting memorial," Textiles Minister Anand Sharma said in identical statements in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
Khushbu, who turned 29 on the 29th, did not live to see the day.
'As the city grows, so do its fire incidents.'
The outlet will feature about 130 brands ranging from mens, womens and kidswear, accessories, luggage, footwear and kitchenware, Sanjay Lalbhai, managing director, Arvind Mills told reporters.
'There will be a lot of spice to the contest -- there is a reason India is the only team other than England against whom Australia is keen to play a five Test series.' 'I'll watch, as I suspect most fans will -- but this one time, I'll watch with considerable trepidation and, from a fan's point of view, with the hope that the team finds its feet and that right quick,' notes the distinguished cricket commentator Prem Panicker.
Patil, who was a technology professional, was hiking above the gorge on June 6 on Avalanche Lake Trail, where he fell off a large rock into Avalanche Creek.
Locals blamed the administration's negligence for the tragedy.
The accused in the Mumbai gang rape case have admitted to having earlier committed two rapes and a molestation inside the deserted Shakti Mills compound, investigators said on Tuesday.
Sugar mills in Maharashtra struck a deal on Monday with three private traders for exporting 70,000 tonne of white sugar, mainly to Yemen and Indonesia, a top industry official said.
According to sources close to the development, the ministry feels that the National Textile Corporation (NTC), which has put the land on sale, will get better prices than the bid put in by Lodha Developers. The company, which had initially placed a bid of Rs 657.90 crore (Rs 6.57 billion), later hiked it to Rs 710 crore (Rs 7.1 billion), following a request from NTC.
Even before NCP-Ajit Pawar leaders came to meet in Delhi, the central government decided to buy 200,000 tonnes of onions from farmers at Rs 24.1 per quintal. This was among the highest prices at which onions have ever been bought from farmers.
The estranged Thackeray cousins -- Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray -- are going to walk together in a march for the cause of out-of-job textile mill workers in Mumbai. Several associations of textile industry workers, thousands of whom became jobless after prolonged strikes in early 1990s and afterwards, have organised a protest march on July 28 to press for their demands of rehabilitation.
The respective Dussehra rallies of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and and Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray were once again about whose version of Hindutva is genuine and who is the true inheritor of party patriarch Bala Thackeray's legacy.
Fast bowler Ian Buttler's impressive showing in the just-concluded Twenty20 internationals earned him a place in New Zealand's One-day team, after a hiatus of five years, for the first three games of the five-match series against India, starting March 3. Apart from Buttler, Kyle Mills also made a comeback to the ODI squad after a two-week injury lay-off to augment an already lethal Kiwi pace battery, led by Iain O'Brien, Butler and Tim Southee.
'Durga Puja is also a time to catch up on the gossip and when the girls of the family get together it's a beautiful feeling that is hard to describe.'
Difficulty in finding the exit door also impeded rescue efforts, forcing nervous customers to lock themselves up in toilets.
Four industrial workers were killed when a fire broke out at a textile mill in Dombivali in Mumbai's adjoining Thane district in the wee hours on Thursday.
Daily life was partially affected in West Bengal on Wednesday due to a 12-hour shutdown called by the Bharatiya Janata Party, protesting the police action against demonstrators during a march to the state secretariat.
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The chief executive officer of a jute mill was beaten to death allegedly by workers on the factory premises after he refused to agree to their demand on wages at Bhadreswar in Hooghly district on Sunday.
The recent blip in housing sales on a quarter-on-quarter (Q-o-Q) basis should not worry investors as the long-term prospects of real estate stocks remain on a strong foundation, according to analysts. In the first half of the calendar year 2024 (H1CY24), realty stocks surged up to 104 per cent. This sharp run should be used to book partial profit in related stocks, suggested Deepak Jasani, head of retail research at HDFC Securities.
Lava Kusha will appeal to the fans of Upendra and Shivaraj Kumar, but it is not a well made entertainer. Director Sai Prakash flaws and Guru Kiran's average music contributes heavily to the film's major minus points.
Since he lives locally, Harish Patel is one of the luckier migrant workers in Surat - in that his employer was able to squeeze in a single shift for him at the weaving unit in Kamrej in Gujarat - unlike others who went home for Holi and other festivals just as the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic was waxing and ended up stranded in local lockdowns.
Top company sources at Alok Industries said the processing required a lot of water, which is not a constraint in Gujarat.
The National Textiles Corporation (NTC) said it has done away with the system of inviting tenders for selling lands of its closed mills and adopted the 'e-auction' route, which is more transparent.
India's gain will be an additional business of $300 million to $400 million per month if 10-11% of Bangladesh's export is diverted to Indian hubs like Tiruppur.
The hands and legs of the decomposed bodies were tied with ropes, and it appeared an attempt was made to burn them.
Pathak, the son of retired director general of police and former Pune police commissioner K K Pathak, was arrested on Saturday.
A sessions court in Mumbai on Friday sentenced four convicts to life in jail for the gang-rape of a telephone operator in the abandoned Shakti Mills compound in the city last year.
Former mill workers from the city and their family members queue to prove their work history in the city to become eligible for subsidised housing provided by the government agency, MHADA.
Expressing anguish over the recent encroachment of the India United Mills in central Mumbai by followers of Babasaheb Ambedkar, the Bombay high court on Tuesday rapped the Maharashtra government for its "failure to take action against the encroachers".
