Budget 2018-19

  Bombay High Court will be hearing Shilpa Shetty’s husband and businessman Raj Kundra’s plea challenging police custody and seeking bail on Tuesday in connection with pornography racket. Bombay High Court will be hearing  Shilpa Shetty ‘s husband and businessman Raj Kundra’s plea challenging police custody and seeking bail on Tuesday in connection with pornography racket. His police custody in the case ends today. Kundra, 45, was arrested by the police on July 19 along with 11 other people on charges related to the alleged creation of pornographic films. Meanwhile, Crime Branch has appointed a financial auditor to probe the money trail of  Raj Kundra  and Shilpa Shetty and their alleged involvement in the pornography racket case. “In the investigation, the Crime Branch has found transactions worth crores were done from the joint account of Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra. The Crime Branch suspects that the earnings from ‘Hotshots’ and ‘Bolly Fame’ app used to come into...

  The Mumbai police on Monday arrested one more person in connection with the TRP manipulation racket, taking the number of those in custody in the case to five, official said arrested one more person in connection with the TRP manipulation racket, taking the number of those in custody in the case to five, official said. Vinay Tripathi, a former employee of Hansa Research agency, was arrested from Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh by the Mumbai police’s Crime Branch, they said. He earlier worked as a relationship manager at Hansa Research, they said. Meanwhile, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Hansa Pravin Nizara and the company’s deputy manager Nitin Deokar were questioned on Monday by the Crime Branch here in connection with the alleged scam, the officials said. Chief Financial officer (CFO) of  Republic TV  Shivam Sundaram is likely to appear before the Crime Branch on Tuesday, they said. According to the officials, Tripathi is the person who used to pay money to watch some se...

  Those responsible, Mumbai Police Commissioner said, would be arrested, be it a director, promoter or any other employee of the channel Mumbai Police on Thursday claimed to have busted a Television Rating Points (TRP) manipulation racket, and said it had arrested four persons in the case.Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh told reporters that Republic TV channel, facing flak over its attack on Mumbai Police and Maharashtra government in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, was among the three channels involved in the racket. Those responsible, he added, would be arrested, be it a director, promoter or any other employee of the channel. Singh said the Mumbai Police crime branch, which unearthed the racket, had arrested the owners of two Marathi channels — Fakt Marathi and Box Cinema. Another police official said two former employees of Hansa agency, involved in the process to determine the TRPs, had also been arrested. The bank accounts of these channels are being probed, th...

Union leaders said that drivers in other cities like New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune among others would also be participating in the strike The transport wing of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has called for an indefinite strike of drivers of cab aggregators Uber and Ola starting Monday midnight. Scores of commuters could be inconvenienced due to the indefinite strike starting from Monday. The strike has been called by the Maharashtra Navnirman Vahtuk Sena which has claimed that several drivers are not being able to cover costs due to falling business. Union leaders said that drivers in other cities like New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune among others would also be participating in the strike. "Ola and Uber had given big assurances to the drivers, but today they are unable to cover their costs. They have invested Rs 500,000 - 700,000 and were expecting to make Rs 150,000 a month. But drivers are unable to make even half of this because of t...