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Navi Mumbai jewellery firm duped of rRs.r10.7 crore by WhatsApp scam

India, July 18 -- A jewellery company in Navi Mumbai was allegedly duped of Rs.10.70 crore after fraudsters created a WhatsApp profile using the owner's name and photograph and convinced an accounts e... Read More


Mahesh Tutorials closure: 'I paid rRs.r2.2L, but my child got coaching for only 3 months'

India, July 18 -- Days after Mahesh Tutorials abruptly shut 33 coaching centres across Maharashtra, most of them in Mumbai, thousands of students, parents and teachers are still waiting for answers. P... Read More


Mira Road crane crash victim's father waits outside police station for FIR, says 'I will fight till my son gets justice'

India, July 18 -- A day after 21-year-old Mohammed Khokar, a student, was killed when a massive crane crashed from an under-construction building in Mira Road, his grieving father stood outside the Ka... Read More


Court grants bail to contractor in rRs.r65-crore Mithi desilting scam, cites lack of prima facie case

India, July 18 -- A sessions court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to contractor Lokesh Onkarlal Jain, an accused in the alleged Rs.65-crore Mithi river desilting scam, holding that the Economic O... Read More


Maharashtra's SIR deadline extended by 10 days

India, July 18 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) has extended the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Maharashtra by 10 days, after the state reported slow progress ... Read More


PMC's rRs.r12 lakh food testing machine goes missing

India, July 18 -- A food testing machine worth nearly Rs.12 lakh, purchased by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), has gone missing, even as food adulteration has become a major public concern in Ma... Read More


James Webb Telescope reveals earliest blueprint of galaxies, finds IUCAA study

India, July 18 -- Researchers at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, have found that some of the earliest known galaxies were already surprisingly well organised ... Read More


19-year-old boy drowns after suffering seizure while swimming in Kurla lake

India, July 18 -- A 19-year-old youth with a history of epilepsy drowned while swimming in Kurla's Sheetal Talao near LBS Road on Friday morning, with police suspecting that he suffered a seizure in t... Read More


NCP leaders pitch Parth Pawar for Modi cabinet amid signs of widening party rift

India, July 18 -- As signs of an internal rift within the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) become increasingly visible, a section of party office-bearers has pitched for the induction of her son and R... Read More


Airport insider nexus busted as DRI seizes rRs.r7.49 crore smuggled gold

India, July 18 -- What appeared to be a routine transit operation at Mumbai airport turned out to be part of an organised international gold-smuggling network involving airport insiders and foreign ca... Read More