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Ratan Tata travels to Pune to see ailing former employee, social media lauds his kindness
Social media is full of praise for Ratan Tata after the Mumbai-based industrialist quietly travelled to Pune to visit an ailing former employee.
The 83-year-old was photographed at Friends Society in Pune by a LinkedIn user Yogesh Desai, who shared the picture on his profile a day ago. Since then, his LinkedIn post has been flooded with comments from people praising Tata's compassionate gesture.
According to Desai, Tata travelled from Mumbai to Pune to visit a former employee who has been unwell for two years. "No media, no bouncers only commitment towards loyal employees," he wrote on the networking site, in praise of the man.
Desai shared a photograph where the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons can be seen with two other people.
Since being shared online a day ago, the post has garnered over 1.6 lakh reactions and 4,000 comments.
"He is a legend, met him several times and you will never meet a more genuine, grounded individual. Example of a truly great leader and great person," wrote o..
Stop! Garbage burning could be killing you!
Mumbai: Premal Udani retains Cricket Club of India top post
Premal Udani on Wednesday retained the presidency of the Cricket Club of India (CCI), with 1,746 votes, while his opponent Satyapal Jain managed to get 755 votes. The results of the election to the top post was announced late evening.
Udani took over the reins of the CCI in 2018. The term of the CCI president expires in two years, but s/he can contest for another term. With Wednesday's victory, Udani will now be serving his second term as president of the prestigious SoBo club. "This has shown that members have reposed their faith in me and appreciated the good work in what has been a very tough year for the club, like it has been for everyone. Some of our facilities have reopened according to the guidelines. Priority will be given towards unlocking more facilities as we try to get back to normal, adhering to protocol. Then, we will look ahead," Udani said.
Premal Udani, president, CCI
Jain said that "starting my campaign for the [election to the] top post very late" was one of the rea..
Khar murder: Injuries on accused don't match the sequence of events
COVID-19: Numbers rise in Mumbai and state once again
Mumbai Diary: Thursday Dossier
Meet the fruit ninja
A man practises a few Shaolin-style moves on a road in Juhu.
A Kipling keepsake
Rudyard Kipling. Pic courtesy/Wikimedia Commons
This month, British auction house Christie's will offer the collection of Mr and Mrs John H Gutfreund 834 Fifth Avenue across live and online sales. In the collection spanning fine and decorative art, jewels and books is a copy of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, illustrated by Paul Jouve and François-Louis Schmied that was completed in 1919. What's interesting is that it contains an original drawing by Jouve in India ink. The book is from the couple's library, and commenting on the apartment, Will Strafford, senior international specialist, European furniture and decorative arts, said, "It is one of the most iconic interiors in New York with each room creating its own individual visual statement."
Saluting Astad Deboo
As if 2020 wasn't bad enough already, it took away from us, contemporary dancer-choreographer Astad Deboo in Dec..
Mumbai Crime: Police identifies body found in open ground in Malvani
England is likely to extend third national lockdown till March
Mumbai Crime: Trio who duped dabbawalas in free-moped scam held
40 contacts of five recent UK passengers traced, all negative
The BMC has so far traced over three dozen close contacts of five people who recently arrived in the city from the UK and were found to be infected with the new COVID-19 strain. "All are negative and have been isolated at home," said Suresh Kakani, additional commissioner of BMC.
Officials had said actors Arbaaz and Sohail Khan had earlier evaded institutional quarantine
Abour 2,600 passengers had come to Mumbai from the UK before December 21, while 181 reached the city afterwards. Of them, 26 were found to be carrying the virus. Their samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune for the complex genome sequencing test. Of the five UK strain cases, two have already tested negative for COVID, while reports of the other three are awaited, said officials.
Meanwhile, after actors Arbaaz and Sohail Khan were slapped with a case for evading the protocol, the two have proceeded on institutional quarantine for seven days. "They have been found negative, so we will not trace ..
Kerala man sues Ayurvedic company over false promise of hair growth, wins
Not a single hair grew, I am still half bald. The company's advertisement claimed their product would help grow lost hair naturally in six weeks," said Francis Vadakkan, 60, from Vylathur, Thrissur district, Kerala after winning a case against Kerala-based ayurvedic company M/s Dhathri Ayurveda Private Limited.
Francis Vadakkan in 1995 with a head full of hair
President of the District Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, Thrissur, C T Sabu, and two members Dr K Radhakrishnan Nair and Sreeja S found the product's print and TV advertisement from 2012 misleading, fined Malayalam actor Anoop Menon R10,000 for endorsing a product he never used, fined the company and the pharmacy from where Vadakkan bought the product. Menon was directed to refrain from endorsing products he is not sure about.
Vadakkan's lawyer, advocate A D Benny fought the case pro bono
"I admire Menon so when I saw his advertisement in January 2012, about the hair cream, I had no reason to not believe the claim and bou..
DC Avanti scam: Dilip Chhabria made suspicious transactions worth crores of rupees in last 5 years
Mumbai Police asks citizens to 'stay in their orbit' after 11 pm
Mumbai: Man slitting throat on Facebook live rescued
A facebook algorithm to prevent suicides and self harm, the Mumbai police's Cyber Cell and the Dhule police got together to save the life of a 23-year-old man who tried to commit suicide on Sunday. The man, who slashed his neck several times with a sharp-edged instrument, was on Facebook live. The technology conglomerate's international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, after being alerted by its algorithm, informed the Mumbai police's Cyber Cell DCP Dr Rashmi Karandikar immediately and within an hour, he was traced.
The race against time to save him began when Karandikar received a call. "On Sunday at around 8:10 pm I received a call from an officer of Facebook's international headquarters in Ireland, saying a man near Mumbai was trying to commit suicide. He was seen in a video slashing his throat four to five times with a sharp-edged instrument. The officer shared the man's video and Facebook account details," said Karandikar.
In the video the man can be heard speaking in Marathi, "Me..
The dope art of cut-and-paste hip hop
The first two chords cut like the steel edge of a knife and you know you've heard the song before; even the silver-tongued lead that follows is familiar. Now the knife comes down once more — two more sharp chords, then that lead again. A rasping, cavalier voice joins in and you know you've heard him before. Woodstock?
The answer comes to you in seconds. Jimi Hendrix.
But at the song's 30-second mark, a new voice enters, younger, more impatient. You know it's a rapper but at your age, you dislike rap because it makes no sense to you. Your son tells you it's a legendary rapper called Tupac. Google tells you he died young, at age 25, but is regarded as the single most influential musician in hip-hop. You still are not quite sure what hip-hop is, but you remember that Jimi Hendrix also died young, at age 28.
You can still hear Hendrix's lead guitar, backing Tupac. Deeper into the song, Hendrix's voice comes back, and now you're hearing two legendary musicians jamming together, seemin..
Mumbai: 2 years on, BEST sweeper struggles hard to get back job
Grab and savour a slice of history!
3 heavy vehicles catch fire after collision on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway
Mumbai: Man who shot ex-girlfriend dead, killed self was accused in 9 cases
A 26-year-old man shot dead a woman at point-blank range before killing himself in Malad West on Monday night. Rahul Yadav was apparently upset with Nidhi Mishra's engagement to someone else.
The spot where Yadav killed Nidhi before turning the pistol on himself on Monday night
Yadav, who lived at Lalji Pada in Kandivli West, attacked 23-year-old Nidhi, resident of Omkar SRA tower at Kurar, near Ijmima Complex behind Goregaon Sports Club. She worked in the HR department of a company called Sealing solution in Malad.
"While Rahul was in a relationship with Nidhi for the past five years, he was furious after she got engaged to another person on November 30. Nidhi was to get married on May 21," said a source, adding Yadav had also threatened her fiance.
The police said Yadav, who hailed from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, faced nine cases, including attempt to murder. He had spent three months in jail and was out on bail during lockdown. He was back in Mumbai from his hometown on January 3.
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Mumbai: Commuters upset over steep climb up new foot over-bridge at Dombivli station
Mumbai: No second arm in Bandra, but Rs 91-crore skywalk in Borivli
While the BMC rejected the second arm for the Bandra flyover over a funds crunch, it is going to build a Rs 91-crore skywalk connecting the east side of Borivli station to the Metro station at WEH. With BMC facing a revenue crunch, the high cost of the skywalk has made corporators raise eyebrows. The Metro line 7 goes from Andheri East to Dahisar East. The designing and tendering of the skywalk started two years ago.
The skywalk will connect a Metro 7 station on the Western Express Highway with Borivli station. File pic
While the estimated cost was Rs 70 crore, the lowest bidder pegged the cost at Rs 64 crore. Other components, including a 10 per cent alteration cost, Rs 25 lakh for transfer of utilities and water, sewerage taxes, increased the cost to Rs 91.31 crore. The deadline to complete the skywalk is three years, including the monsoon months.
The Bandra skywalk, which is slated to have just one arm due to cash crunch, would have cost around Rs 50 crore to have both its arms goin..
Acquainting you with Satish again
Later on, even I would step out straight from the bathroom, to 'sahab, ab ghar par nahin hain (sir's not home)," says actor-filmmaker Satish Kaushik, 64, of the time in the early '80s in Bombay, when he'd been chasing down director Shekhar Kapur. The attendant on the phone only had multiple excuses to ward off such phone calls.
Having heard once from a spot-boy that Kapur had gone to the airport to drop off someone, he went there straight, to introduce himself, asking for a job of an assistant director (AD). There was a position available, but going to be filled by one Rajkumar Santoshi, he was told later.
To which, instead of regretting that he'd miss working with Kapur, he said: You will miss working with me! "There was a slip in my English," Kaushik laughs. Kapur was evidently intrigued/impressed.
This is how he landed up as an assistant on the milestone movie, Masoom (1982). He got to co-write memorable dialogues for Kundan Shah's landmark film Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983) next. Also ..
Mumbai: Traffic cop helps solve autorickshaw theft case, history-sheeter arrested
Mumbai: MMRDA begins work to make Kandivli landslide-free
Five fliers with new COVID-19 strain isolated in Mumbai
The new strain of novel Coronavirus, which is said to be 70 per cent more infectious, had sneaked into Mumbai even before the state government announced mandatory quarantine for UK fliers on December 21. Eight passengers from Britain, including five from the city, who arrived between November 25 and December 21, have tested positive for the new variant.
Among the eight passengers confirmed with the new strain, one each are from Mira-Bhayandar, Thane and Pune, besides the five from the city. They are among the 43 international fliers who tested COVID-19 positive on their arrival in the state before December 21, State Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Monday.
"Eight passengers from Maharashtra returning from the UK have been diagnosed with the new corona, five from Mumbai, one each from Pune, Thane and Mira Bhayandar. All of them are being segregated and their contact tracing is underway," Tope tweeted.
Passengers at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. File pic/Sameer Ma..
Mumbai Diary: Tuesday Dossier
Meet the Tech Entrepreneur of India: Parmarth Mori, ready to take over the industry with his expertise
A founder of a Tech Company PM Communications, a leading web designing and app development company in India, shares a few future technologies for 2021 that would get mainstream.
Since a couple of years, the tech industries have reshaped the world in ways more than one. This is a fact that other industries and businesses have accepted looking at the ever-growing technological advancements that have taken place, changing many industries dynamics for the better. Major credit must also go to professionals and experts who have led the industry from the front with their innovative ideas and concepts for tech tools, apps, programs, etc. These professionals make relentless efforts for leaving a huge mark in the industry, making people's lives better with their latest tech discoveries and creations. Parmarth Mori, hailing from Wadhwan (Vardhman Puri) in Gujarat is one such name who is gradually taking over the IT industry of Gujarat. As a tech expert from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Parmarth Mori has d..
Indian restaurant in US gets a generous 2,020 dollar tip, internet applauds
How much will heritage walk cost? BMC does not know
Mumbai Diary: Wednesday Dossier
Khar murder: One accused starts to reveal the chain of events
Accused Diya Padalkar, arrested in the murder of her friend at a New Year's Eve party, has finally started to spill the beans. She has told the Khar cops, who have taken blood and urine samples of all guests at the party, that the other accused, Shree Jogdhankar, had smoked marijuana before coming. Cops claim to have figured out the chain of events.
The victim's parents at the Mumbai police headquarters to meet the CP
A senior police officer said, "We will wait for the forensic reports to find out whether drugs were used at the party. However, accused Diya said that Shree used to take marijuana and he had smoked up before coming to the party." However, the officer said that they hadn't found any traces of drugs at the venue after the body was recovered from the ground floor.
Sequence of events
According to the police, Shree was not invited to the party. He went there along with the victim and Diya at 12:05 am. Some witnesses have told the police that around 12:20 am the victim and Shre..
Khar murder: Teen girl's parents meet Mumbai Police Commissioner, seek speedy justice
Parents of the 19-year-old psychology student, who was murdered at a New Year party in Khar, met Mumbai Commissioner of Police Parambir Singh and Joint Commissioner (Law and Order) Vishwas Nangre Patil on Tuesday and sought speedy justice in the case, said police sources.
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The victim’s family also sought to send the case to a fast track court. Singh assured them of a speedy investigation, added the sources.
Victim's parents at the Mumbai Commissioner of Police's office. Pic courtesy/Faizan Khan
The family will now meet state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in relation with the case, said sources.
The victim, a Santa Cruz resident, was found in a pool of blood at a house in Khar where she went to celebrate the New Year with her friends.
The Khar police have registered a murder case against the victim's two friends, Diya Padalkar and Shree Jogdhankar.
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