Category: MUMBAI

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said that he will be joining the Bharatiya Janata Party here on Tuesday afternoon.

Shocking the Congress, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Shankarrao Chavan quit the party, and also as MLA, amid speculation of many other senior leaders planning to follow suit, here on Monday.

The Election Commission on Wednesday allotted veteran leader Sharad Pawar’s faction the new one-time name of "Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar", an official announcement said.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced on Tuesday that it has decided to make an additional amount of Rs 5,000 crore available to the Standalone Primary Dealers (SPDs) under the Standing Liquidity Facility.

On Republic Day, lakhs of Marathas waving the Tricolour and saffron flags, marched into Mumbai from different entry points in what is considered as the "final battle" for reservation in education and jobs for the community, here on Friday.

India’s economic activity remained resilient on the back of robust domestic demand, notwithstanding the external headwinds. Supply chain pressures in India ebbed in December and remained below historical average levels, according to the RBI’s monthly bulletin released on Thursday.

After a hot pursuit lasting 12 days and 1200 kms across multiple states, the Mumbai Police finally caught a killer who was on the run after clobbering to death his wife and brother, an official said here on Thursday.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Thursday that post-pandemic digital lending has seen an exponential rise in India and at the same time, it has also raised a host of business conduct issues on which the central bank was keeping a close watch.

The issue of the famed ‘wagh-nakh’ (tiger-claws) -- said to be used by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to kill the treacherous General Afzal Khan of the Bijapur Sultanate in November 1659 – displayed at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&AM) in London, suddenly came alive on Saturday.

Piramal Enterprises has decided to adjust Rs 3,164 crore worth of exposure in Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) in its financial statements through capital funds or provisions in order to comply with the latest RBI norms in this regard.

In a sensational development, a 30-year old woman doctor has accused a prominent industrialist of sexual assault on her last year, as per a detailed complaint lodged with Mumbai Police.

A resident of Juhu, the doctor, has filed the complaint against the 64-year old business honcho of a prominent industrial group, with the Bandra Kurla Police Station on Wednesday.

In an early morning swoop, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) teams raided at least 43 locations in Maharashtra, and one in Karnataka in the ongoing probe into the ISIS terror modules conspiracy case, and detained at least 15 persons, official sources said here.

Reliance Industries Ltd Chairman Mukesh Ambani has received an extortion-cum-death threat via email, officials said here on Saturday. The email demanding Rs 20-crore threatens to shoot Ambani, 66, if he fails to cough out the amount.

The accused in the 'serial rapes' is Dr Yogesh Bhanushali, who was arrested after two cases were lodged against him for the offence on September 27 and October 3, and the third case lodged on October 15.

Casino chain Delta Corp has received another notice from the GST authorities to pay up an additional Rs 6,385 crore as the tax shortfall due from its subsidiary company Deltatech Gaming.

According to sources close to the development, India can soon become the first country to produce a 4.5 generation fighter aircraft without being an Original Equipment Manufacturer or the OEM.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday urged the Centre to form a group comprising the Enforcement Directorate, the Income Tax Department, and the Financial Intelligence Unit to probe the funding of Maoist groups in the country.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday announced an increase in the monetary ceiling of gold loans that can be granted under the bullet repayment scheme from Rs 2 lakhs to Rs 4 lakhs for urban co-operative banks (UCB) who have met the overall PSL target and sub targets as on March 31, 2023.

At least six people were killed and 40 others injured in a major fire that engulfed the parking lot of a high-rise in suburban Goregaon on Friday, the BMC Disaster Control said.

In a significant development, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of the unusually high number of deaths in government-run hospitals in Nanded and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar districts of Maharashtra.

In a bizarre development, a prominent loan defaulter diamantaire from Mumbai -- constructing a mega-hospital in the Gujarat International Finance Tech (GIFT) City, Gandhinagar -- is now targeted by a leading private bank to recover its old dues.

A day after a +highlighted her plight of how she was allegedly refused a shop in a Gujarati-dominating building in north-east Mumbai, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray took a grim view of the incident, here on Friday.

In a bolt to the sulking Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pankaja Munde, the GST Department swooped on a sugar factory controlled by her and seized certain assets to recover Rs 19-crore worth of GST dues, official sources said.

In a potentially controversial move, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday mooted a proposal for giving 5 per cent reservations for Muslims in education, raising eyebrows in the ruling establishment.