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Fed may ease capital rules for big banks

India, March 20 -- Wall Street lending giants would get relaxed capital requirements under proposals unveiled by the Federal Reserve on Thursday, in a move that could potentially unleash billions of d... Read More


Crash highlights hidden 'black spot'

PUNE, March 20 -- The fatal accident near the Panvel exit on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway has turned the spotlight on a recurrent danger zone that continues to evade the list of officially designated "b... Read More


Sunrise drive turns fatal: 3 IIT-B students killed on expressway

NAVI MUMBAI, March 20 -- An early-morning drive to catch the sunrise in Lonavala turned tragic for three Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) students who were killed in a high-speed crash on... Read More


Gangster Dawood Ibrahim's remaining properties auctioned

MUMBAI, March 20 -- After at least four failed attempts since 2017, the competent authority under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act (SAFEMA) has finally foun... Read More


Mobile blackout set to hit Aqua Line as MMRCL junks contract

Mumbai, March 20 -- Commuters on the 33.5-km Aqua line or Mumbai Metro 3 may soon face total mobile and internet blackout as the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) has terminated its contra... Read More


Water metro plan for MMR gets CM's nod

MUMBAI, March 20 -- The Maharashtra Maritime Board (MMB) has unveiled an ambitious plan to develop a 36-route water metro network across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, aimed at carrying up to 18 mill... Read More


3 acquitted in 16-year-old arms act case

MUMBAI, March 20 -- Sixteen years after they were arrested allegedly for possessing illegal weapons including a carbine and over 70 live cartridges, a magistrate's court has acquitted three individual... Read More


Two weeks on, civic officials assaulted again by hawkers

Mumbai, March 20 -- Less than two weeks after officials of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) were attacked during an anti-encroachment drive in Kandivali, civic officials were once again al... Read More


Kharat built an empire mingling with the powerful

PUNE/NASHIK, March 20 -- For over two decades since he retired from the merchant navy, Ashok Kharat, 67, cultivated an aura that charmed the wealthy and powerful such as politicians, realtors and busi... Read More


SIT to probe rape allegations against self-styled 'godman'

MUMBAI, March 20 -- Maharashtra government on Thursday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe allegations of rape against self-styled godman and numerologist Ashok Kharat, even as pol... Read More