MUMBAI: Every morning traders at Zaveri Bazar start their day by discussing market volatility over some quick snacks at the variety of food joints dotting area`s narrow lanes. But a day after an explosion rocked the commercial hub killing six and injuring as many as 50, the morning hustle-bustle had given way to an uneasy, [...]

MUMBAI: The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), which has taken over the investigation of the triple blasts case, is questioning two Indian Mujahideen (IM) suspects arrested last week. Mubeen Khan, 32, and Ayyub Shaikh, 28, are residents of Khazrana in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, who are accused of stealing four cars, two of which were used in the [...]

GURGAON: The managing committee of a housing society here has banned its residents from keeping pets. The committee of Kanchunjunga Cooperative Group Housing Society (CGHS) in Sector 56 has justified its move citing a by-law that it claims exists in the original allotment letter issued to occupants. It has even issued a circular terming the [...]

MUMBAI: Barely five hours after the Mumbai blasts, Union home minister P Chidambaram rushed to the city here around midnight Wednesday-Thursday for a spot assessment of the triple blasts which left 21 dead and 141 injured. He was accompanied by chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and newly-appointed MoS from Mumbai, Milind Deora, and other high-ranking home [...]

SURAT: Diamond merchants in Surat, each of whom has an office in the twin buildings of Panchratna Chambers or Prasad Chambers at Mumbai’s Opera House area, are a shaken lot. And almost all of them believe the blasts are an attack on the diamond industry. Chandrakant Sanghavi, chairman of Sanghavi Exports, says, “This is an [...]

NEW DELHI: They travelled in an Audi car, charged Rs 4 lakh a month for their “services” and liked to “operate” from farmhouses and flats owned by their pimp at the Chattarpur Farms, Malviya Nagar and Kalkaji. They even had a customer profile wing that engaged Mumbai-based models for high-paying customers, while poor girls from [...]

Three blasts took place at Dadar in central Mumbai and Opera House and Zaveri Bazar in south Mumbai. (TOI Photo ) MUMBAI: Like most evenings, Khau Galli at Zaveri Bazar was teeming on Wednesday with people snacking at the wide array of food joints, when around 6.54pm a bomb planted in a scooter went off, [...]

PANAJI: A day after 42-year-old Poornima Pednekar was murdered at the Panaji KTC bus stand, it has now come to light that the accused, Rohan Gurung, 26, killed her because he was upset with the victim for resisting his moves to have sex with her, the police said. Gurung, a resident of Sikkim, was arrested [...]

NEW DELHI: Over 6,500 people, who had booked their flats with builders in Greater Noida, where projects are in jeopardy due to a dispute over the acquisition of land, will get back their investments with interest, the Supreme Court has said. Those who had watched with horror their dream of owning a flat in Noida [...]

CHENNAI: For the first time in last four years, one of the 10 engineering seats earmarked for the children of freedom fighters will be filled because J Sivakumar decided to get a degree 18 years after his higher secondary examination. At 38, he is also the oldest candidate to aspire for an engineering seat this [...]