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MUMBAI: Two senior employees of a company have been booked for cheating the company of Rs 4.86 crore by forging company documents and misusing their position of trust. The accused fabricated a fake board resolution and other company papers and submitted them to a bank without authorisation, securing loans of Rs 2 crore and purchase of luxury cars (Audi Q7) for personal purposes.Marine Drive Police...

Chennai: Jaya Hind Industries, a supplier of precision aluminium die-cast components, is investing ₹200 crore to expand its aluminium die-casting facility near Chennai. The move will raise the plant's installed capacity to about 20,000 tonnes per year and add advanced, vertically integrated manufacturing capabilities.The company, which is part of the Dr. Abhay Firodia Group, is undertaking a...

Director Aditya Dhar’s spy action thriller ‘Dhurandhar’, starring Ranveer Singh and Akshaye Khanna, continues its historic run at the box office despite registering its first noticeable drop in collections. Nearing the end of its second week in theatres, the film has already rewritten several records and stands among the biggest Hindi successes of 2025.Dhurandhar Movie Review‘Dhurandhar’ box...

Chennai: The Munich (Germany)-headquartered €7.9 billion Knorr-Bremse Group, a leading manufacturer of braking systems and supplier of safety-critical subsystems for rail and commercial vehicles, will establish a new manufacturing unit on the Sriperumbudur industrial corridor, with an investment of ₹1,907 crore.The proposed greenfield facility will be established by its Indian arm,...

CHENNAI: Chennai Customs has busted a gold-smuggling syndicate involving airline crew at Chennai airport, seizing a total of 9.46 kg of gold worth Rs 11.5 crore and arresting five persons.The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Chennai Customs, acting on specific intelligence, intercepted an Indian male crew member of Emirates flight EK-544, which arrived at the Anna International Airport, Chennai from...

Chennai: Chief minister M K Stalin said the DMK will garner at least 2.5 crore votes in the upcoming assembly election due to the welfare measures rolled out by his govt across the state.Addressing the DMK district secretaries via video conference from Chennai, Stalin said the DMk govt's welfare programmes have directly benefitted 1.86 crore people, which would help the party improve its perfomence in...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Friday urged Union minister Giriraj Singh to release total wage liability of Rs 2,697 crore under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) immediately.In a letter to the minister, a copy of which was released to the media, the chief minister recalled the representations made by the public and public representatives in...

MUMBAI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) provisionally attached assets worth Rs 70.4 crore of erstwhile DHFL promoters Kapil Wadhawan and Dheeraj Wadhawan, including paintings, sculptures and two flats at Bandra in Mumbai. The attached assets are in the form of paintings, sculptures worth Rs 28.58 Crore, watches worth Rs 5 Crore, diamond jewellery worth Rs 10.71 crore, 20% stake in a helicopter to the tune...

KOLKATA: Bengal’s Durga Puja economy could well have touched the Rs 50,000-crore mark this year with puja organisers, advertisers, retailers and restaurants registering a 20% hike in businesses over 2022. Kolkata is expected to account for around 20% of the pie at Rs 10,000 crore. Last year, total transactions were estimated to be around Rs 40,000 crore, up from Rs 32,377 crore in 2019.The 2019 figure...

MUMBAI: The air intelligence unit (AIU) of customs arrested a 20-year-old man for smuggling 3.5 kg of gold worth Rs 1.67 crore in Mumbai. On specific intelligence, the officer of AIU intercepted Alsiban Majed who arrived from Bahrain and walked the green channel without disclosing that he had brought dutiable goods.Officials said that due to festival season, the huge differences of price as compared to...