With Deva’s death, Byculla zoo is now left with three hippopotamuses Mumbai: Thirty-five-year-old hippopotamus Deva died at Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan on May 13, due to age-related complications. Deva was among the few exotic animals born at the Byculla zoo; he was born there in 1991.With Deva’s death, the zoo is now left with three…
Mumbai: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry continued to dominate as the most opted and highest-performing subjects across Cambridge International’s IGCSE and International AS (11 grade) & A (12 grade) Level examinations in India’s March 2026 session, reflecting sustained student preference for science and quantitative disciplines across secondary and senior secondary education. As many as 2000 Cambridge…
Mumbai: The state cabinet on Tuesday approved the allotment of 15 acres in Panvel to Ritanand Balved Education Foundation, the parent institution of Amity University.According to a govt press release, various educational courses are taught in 18 branches at Amity University. Currently more than 5,000 students are studying there and the institution had requested land…
Priyanka KakodkarMumbai: The state cabinet sub-committee for OBCs, which met on Monday, has recommended raising the non-creamy layer limit from Rs 8 lakh to Rs 15 lakh and directed that a meeting be held with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on the issue.Incidentally, in Oct 2024, when assembly polls were due in Maharashtra, the state cabinet…
Mumbai: A 77-year-old Ghatkopar resident was duped of Rs 50 lakh by cyber fraudsters posing as Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials in a digital arrest scam, according to an FIR registered at East Region Cyber Police Station.The complainant, a labour law advisor residing in Garodia Nagar, told police that between May 12 and 14, he received…
Mumbai: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) city unit on late Tuesday caught a private individual who allegedly demanded and accepted a bribe on behalf of a police constable in connection with passport verification work.The ACB arrested Sanjit Kumar, who allegedly collected a bribe of Rs 1,000 for police constable Basavaraj Gwaminath Dhamgunde attached to Khar police…
The court observed that the case rested almost entirely on the alleged confession and disclosure statements, without any independent corroborative evidence Thane: A 33-year-old man, Himanshu Gujale, who had walked into a police station four years ago and allegedly confessed to killing a woman, was acquitted by a Thane court due to lack of evidence.The…
Several IAS officers were transferred Chaitanya.MarpakwarMumbai: IAS officer Tukaram Mundhe was on Tuesday appointed commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This is his 25th transfer in a 21-year career and his second in less than two months. In April, the 2005-batch IAS officer was transferred as secretary of the disability welfare department and…
Mumbai: The Supreme Court Collegium on Monday approved appointment as permanent Judges, six Additional Judges of the Bombay high court. The six who become permanent HC Judges are Justices Nivedita Mehta, Prafulla Khubalkar, Ashwin Bhobe, Rohit Joshi, Advait Sethna and Pravin Patil. The HC has an approved strength of 94 Judges and a vacancy of…
Bella JaisinghaniMumbai: With petrol price in Mumbai Rs 107.59 per litre and diesel Rs 94.08 in the wake of the latest rate increase on Tuesday, the cumulative fuel hike over the past four days comes to Rs 4 per litre. As fuel costs feed into transportation and essential goods, the increases, it appears, have begun…
