City roads begin to cave-in after heavy monsoon showers
While the heavy showers have already riddled the city roads with potholes, as many as three roads caved-in at various places in the city on Thursday.
‘Set up corpus fund to fight oil spills’
Union minister for environment and forests Jayanthi Natarajan, has favoured setting-up of a corpus fund to aid quick response to fight oil spills off the Indian coast.
Service tax defaulters to pay dues sans penalty?
The service tax department of the Government of India is coming up with a one-time amnesty scheme called Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme (VCES), to benefit service tax defaulters from July t
70-yr-old biker run over, driver held
A 70-year-old man, riding without a helmet, died of grievous head injuries after a speeding truck rammed into his scooter at a curve on the Saki Naka junction in Andheri (east) on Wednesday night, the
Kunte visits Altaf Mansion, BMC to demolish building
Following instructions from municipal commissioner Sitaram Kunte, the civic officials as well as the structural engineer carried out the inspection of the Altaf Mansion building at Mahim on Thursday.
University to decide fee hike
The management council of the University of Mumbai on Thursday gave its approval for the formation of a Shikshan Shulk Samiti to look into the xvarious requests by colleges, in order to allow them to
Sensex tanks 526 pts; US Fed sends world markets plunging
Equity markets across the world plunged sharply on Thursday, with Indian markets registering their biggest percentage fall since September 22, 2011, as jittery investors dumped equities due to fears a
It’s out: What Indian women do online
“How to get twins?”, “how to wear a sari?”, “how to make a chocolate cake?”, “how to get rid of dandruff?”: These are among the most frequently-asked questions by 60 million-odd Indian women on the In
KC Commerce students in a fix
Around 60 to 80 students of KC College at Churchgate have been left in the lurch after the college expressed its inability to give them admission to FYBCom due to shortage of seats.
HC warns state of contempt notice
Lambasting the Mahara-shtra government for its casual approach in addressing the malnourishment issue across the state, the Bombay high court on Wednesday warned of issuance of a contempt notice again