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MUMBAI: A 49-year-old agent, who was wanted for three years in connection with a case of human trafficking and facilitating illegal immigration to the US, has been found involved in a fresh case of passport-related misrepresentation. Zakir Shaikh, a Goregaon resident, was held by the State Monitoring Cell (SMC) of the Gujarat Police recently. Police…
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis MUMBAI: CM Fadnavis approved the Dharavi redevelopment master plan, after a detailed presentation by SVR Srinivas, Dharavi Redevelopment Project CEO, Wednesday night and stressed that it should preserve the basic commercial identity of Dharavi and its original features. “Everyone who is the original resident of this place should be given a…
Mumbai:Actor Dino Morea and his brother Santino were questioned for six hours on Wednesday by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in connection with the investigation into the Mithi river desilting scam. They were questioned on Monday too. An EOW officer said the Moreas submitted their personal bank account records and those of UBO Ridez, an…
Mumbai: After trying for a decade to have children, a city couple welcomed twin daughters three years ago. Last month, while riding along a badly damaged stretch of the Kalyan-Badlapur Road, their scooter slipped. The family fell, and one of the twins suffered grave injuries when another motorcycle struck her.It took 12 days for her…
MUMBAI: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai, arrested two directors of an import firm for their alleged involvement in the gross undervaluation of luxury furniture imports amounting to Rs 60 crore and evasion of various duties worth over Rs 20 crore. The DRI arrested Rizwan Iqbal Chunawala (49), the proprietor of Design Decode, and…
VASAI: The Municipal Commissioner and Administrator of Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC) transferred 19 staff working in the Town Planning department of the VVCMC. Most of the employees (both contractual and staff) have been working in the town planning department for more than 3 years, which was objected to by the Congress leader from…
MUMBAI: The Cyber Police have arrested a real estate professional and an employee of a private company who were part of a cyber fraud gang that induced an accountant to invest in online share trading and duped him of Rs 3.63 crore. The South Cyber Police, which is probing the case, arrested Adnan Shamshuddin Khan…
A 39-year-old man from Solapur, identified as Ajit Maidagi, was detained by Mumbai police after he threatened to immolate himself outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ residence, Varsha. NEW DELHI: Police detained a 39-year-old man for threatening to immolate himself outside Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’ official residence, Varsha, in South Mumbai on Wednesday. The…
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has successfully deported Naveen Chickar, a key figure in a transnational drug trafficking ring, from Malaysia. MUMBAI: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has secured the deportation of a kingpin, Naveen Chickar, behind the transnational drug trafficking syndicate from Malaysia with the help of the Intelligence Bureau and Interpol. Chickar is…
MUMBAI: A minor fight between drivers of two aggregator cabs snowballed into a dangerous stunt as one driver jumped onto the bonnet of the other’s cab at the domestic terminal of the city airport Wednesday midnight.To avoid being attacked, the driver who was in the cab, Bhimprasad Mahanto (34), accelerated while with the other, Justin…
