MUMBAI — Continuing its probe into the Adarsh housing society scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday raided the homes of Jairaj Phatak, the former municipal commissioner of Mumbai, across three cities in the country. Phatak, an Indian Administrative Service officer — and now additional secretary at the rural electrification department at the centre – is accused of having approved the height of the controversial building by 10 metres. In return, his son was given an apartment in the building.
MUMBAI - In a major embarrassment for the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Mumbai sessions court on Friday granted conditional bail to Hasan Ali Khan, a Pune stud farmer owner, accused of being a tax evader and alleged to have stashed funds abroad.
MUMBAI - Nurses at the state-owned KEM Hospital here cheered on Monday after the Supreme Court rejected a plea by an author, seeking the mercy killing of Aruna Shanbaug, a nurse at the hospital, who has been in coma for 37 years.
MUMBAI - Thousands of Catholics led by cardinal Oswald Gracias, archbishop and president of Catholic Bishops Conference of India, participated in a march here on Friday, protesting against the demolition of three crosses by the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC).
MUMBAI - Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee presented a please-all budget in Parliament on Monday, apparently with an eye on the forthcoming elections to five state assemblies, by giving relief to ordinary taxpayers and corporates.
MUMBAI - Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee expects the Indian economy to grow at double-digit rates in the near future. Presenting his budget to the Lok Sabha, Mukherjee pointed out that in fiscal 2011-12, the economy would expand by nine per cent.
MUMBAI - The Bombay High Court on Monday upheld the death sentence awarded by a trial court to convicted Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Kasab for his role in the 26/11 terror attacks.
MUMBAI - It was for the first time in years that Valentine’s Day was celebrated with gaiety and without the police having to step up security around multiplexes and shopping malls, as the Shiv Sena obviously realised the futility of its absurd campaign against the festival.
MUMBAI — Three people were killed and two others injured when a fire broke out on Wednesday morning in the basement of Bombay House, the headquarters of the $70 billion (group revenue) Tata group, located in Mumbai’s busy commercial area of Fort.
Fifty-two men, including 28 Somali pirates, were brought to Mumbai on Sunday evening, hours after two vessels of the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard foiled an attack by the pirates on a Greek merchant vessel about 100 nautical miles off the Lakshadweep coast.
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