HAJI MASTAN

Indrajit hazra talks about how an Allahabad Bank account-holding man-child, at last, felt plugged into the Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers on Dalal Street,

Gold gets smuggled into the country in a hundred ways. A carrier can hide it in their body, stitch it inside their clothing, conceal it in their shoes, jackets or special belts, or simply carry it in their pockets.

Even his name — from the staid Alokesh Lahiri to the ‘daaknaam’ Bappi, his Bombay nom de guerre emphasising the p’s that the pet name by which he is still called in Bengali does not — is redolent with a rhythm that upends any tradition of treating u...

Reel turned real for years, as actresses became object of affection of the underworld.

The RSS’s media head, Ambekar, distanced himself from the Panchajanya write-up that alleged that Infosys may be trying to deliberately destabilise the Indian economy by helping Naxals, leftists, the tukde-tukde gang, and the Italian mafia… right, so...

The entry of AIMIM in Seemanchal region, particularly in districts like Kishanganj and Purnea, is proving to be a cause of trouble for both the ruling NDA and the opposition alliance.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut should have refrained from saying that former prime minister Indira Gandhi used to meet yesteryear gangster Karim Lala, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said here on Friday.

"Sanjay Raut has made a major expos about late PM Indira Gandhi. Why was she visiting Mumbai and whether the Congress was funded by the underworld of Mumbai? Was it the beginning of criminalisation of politics?" former Maharashtra CM queried. Was th...

Recalling days of the underworld in Mumbai, Raut, who was earlier a journalist, said gangsters like Dawood Ibrahim, Chhota Shakeel and Sharad Shetty used to have control over the metropolis and adjoining areas.

Jethmalani would take up high-profile cases that many other prominent lawyers would loath to accept.

Reaching out to Asaduddin Owaisi’s Majlise-Ittahadul Muslimeen early on and renewing the Dalit-Muslim axis, he has set the stage for a three-cornered contest in the state.

Shiv Sena also said that Indira Gandhi was "pro-democracy" as she called for elections in 1977 after lifting Emergency which she lost.

The ingenuity of smugglers deserves a silver screen acknowledgement.

He has been a teacher of law to judges, advocates and politicians since he took part in the murder trial against K M Nanavati in 1959.

A warning letter from Sundar Shaekhar, who claims that he is an adopted son of the don, has asked superstar Rajinikanth not to depict Haji Mastan as a 'smuggler and an underworld don' in the movie.Haji Mastan's foster son threatens superstar Rajinik...

Haji Mastan was a major player in the smuggling of precious metals in the 1955-75 period and later became a celebrity in Bollywood for film production.

Spearheading MIM's Maharashtra foray is Akbaruddin Owaisi, MLA from Chandrayan Gutta, Hyderabad, and a member of the Telangana assembly.

High import duties, at 10% now, compared to the earlier level of 2%, have led to a steep fall in gold imports.

Today, the underworld operates like a group of large diversified conglomerates with its fingers in scores of businesses from drugs to real estate.