Новости за 29.12.2015

A massive fire broke out in a scrap godown on the MTNL premises adjoining a residential area off Bhatankar Marg in Parel

MUMBAI: The Mumbai police on Tuesday invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against gangster Ashwin Naik, and eight of his cronies in a Rs 50 lakh extortion case.

A negotiation over paying ransom proved too costly for two ‘kidnappers’ who leaked their location to the police during the long conversation. In the process, they even offered to take the ransom of Rs 5 lakh in installments.

Bushra Atif, 23, who was murdered by husband Atif Qamruddin Popere, 25, in Dubai in March 2013, seems to have been deeply in love with him as can still be seen from her online photos and messages on Facebook.

Chief justice of India TS Thakur will head the three-member bench taking up on January 4 the issue of UP’s lokayukta’s appointment. A bench of the apex court on December 17 had appointed Justice Virendra Singh as the state’s ombudsman, but another bench had stayed his selection just a day before the swearing in. The matter is posted for hearing at the SC on January 4.

Local NGO, Communicare Trust’s Food Bank has wrapped up another successful Christmas season

A bunch of original sketches by Satyajit Ray is missing from Roopkola Kendro, the state government-run communication centre and film school.

In a daring daylight robbery on Tuesday afternoon, armed men looted Rs 25 lakh from two Bank of Maharashtra employees on the Pen-Khopoli road.

A 77-year-old Italian nun who founded a well known leprosy care centre in Yari Road, Versova, has been asked to leave India. Sister Bertilla Capra, who runs Vimala Dermatological Centre, is in New Delhi to meet Union home minister Rajnath Singh to plead her case. Capra was not available for comment.

A house in Nadia district will take a little stroll. Just about 70 feet. And straight into the record books.

Almost seven months into the academic year, the state government is planning to conduct the second round of online admissions for the 25% seats reserved under Right to Education Act, 2009.

An 80-year-old man died while eight were admitted to hospital with injuries after a three-storeyed building collapsed in Bhiwandi on Tuesday morning. The 40-year-old building is situated in Idgah Tandel mohalla.

The Christmas vacation turned cheerful for a Chandivli father on Tuesday after he moved court alleging contempt by his estranged wife and got access to his minor daughter for the rest of the holidays.

The DN Nagar police on Tuesday arrested a 20-year-old Dongri resident for allegedly extorting Rs 15.7 lakh from a woman after threatening to post her nude pictures on Facebook and WhatsApp.

Expect more autorickshaws on city roads next year as the transport department on Tuesday announced that it will conduct a lottery, under the supervision of Andheri RTO, on January 12 to allot 35,628 auto permits for Mumbai metropolitan region.

Private taxi aggregator Ola on Tuesday announced the launch of Ola Share, a social ride-sharing offering, in Mumbai.

Investment scenario in Uttar Pradesh is looking better with no less than Ratan Tata, Karan Adani, V K Reddy, Dr Naresh Trehan and more making foray in the state on one hand and Rs 50,000 crore worth investments being pledged at the state government’s mega event in Mumbai in September on the other, besides film production houses making a beeline to make in UP. All this, without the famous liasoning of the party’s erstwhile arbiter Amar Singh, who along with Jaya Bachchan as chairman of Uttar Pradesh Film Development Council... Читать дальше...

The Centre has allocated Rs 1104 crore to Bengal under the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF). Bengal’s allocation is the highest after Madhya Pradesh (Rs 2033 crore) and Maharashtra (Rs 3050). Odisha, Manipur and Chhattisgarh, the other beneficiaries, have received much less.

Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday announced an ex-gratia relief of Rs 20 lakh to the kin of police constable Anil Awasthi who died in a wall collapse at reserve police lines in Lucknow on Monday.

There is more fake Nepali currency than its Indian counterpart in circulation, claimed Sashastra Seema Bal after a recent haul. “Rs 54,000 fake Indian currency notes were recovered by SSB in 2015, against Rs 1-2 crore of fake Nepali currency,” said B D Sharma, director general of SSB, adding that during the period of turmoil in Nepal, their currency was being hoarded in India, possibly for illegal exchange and use in Bihar polls.

Students pursuing M Sc in Nuclear Medicine from Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences will get their degree from Lucknow University.

Ranjith KK, an Indian Air Force employee, got a Facebook friend request from a pretty woman based in the United Kingdom three years ago. He thought himself the luckiest of young men when the friendship took a spicy turn that included dirty talk late into the night.

Ranjith KK, an Indian Air Force employee, got a Facebook friend request from a pretty woman based in the United Kingdom three years ago. He thought himself the luckiest of young men when the friendship took a spicy turn that included dirty talk late into the night.

Keeping in mind the rising burden of cardiac ailments in the city, the Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences is set to start a new cath lab. This means that facilities like eco-cardiogram, TMT, angioplasty, angiography and pacemaker would be available to patients in need.

UP government on Tuesday imposed a complete ban on strike by power employee across the state. The state government invoked essential services act of 1968 inhibiting power department employee to go on a strike that could cripple electricity supply in the state.