Mumbai: The Fee Regulatory Authority (FRA) has slashed the fees for undergraduate professional courses such as BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration), BCA (Bachelor of Computer Applications) and BMS (Bachelor of Management Studies), cutting them in many cases to one-third of the amounts proposed by colleges. Some colleges claimed they had sought annual fees of Rs…
Mumbai: The late-night meeting that senior NCP politicians Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare had with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday continues to reveal faultlines within the party as it has now emerged that NCP chief and deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar was unaware about the meeting. NCP (SP) politician Jayant Patil was also present…
Mumbai: BJP MLA and the party’s Mumbai chief Ameet Satam, along with local residents, has opposed BMC’s plan to lease a 12-acre open space housing the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Sports Complex on Veera Desai Road in Andheri (W) for 10 years under the public-private-partnership (PPP) model to the Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal.According to BMC’s…
A construction crane collapsed from a high-rise building on Mira Road. The incident killed one person and damaged several parked vehicles below (Photo credit: X) MUMBAI: A 21-year-old man was killed and another sustained serious injuries after a nearly 120-ft-tall tower crane collapsed at an under-construction building in the JP North residential complex in Mira…
Senior leaders Jayant Patil (left), MLA Jitendra Awhad and Priya Patil met Maharashtra chief election officer on Thursday. MUMBAI: Senior leaders of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), led by Jayant Patil, on Wednesday met Maharashtra chief electoral officer S. Chockalingam to raise concerns over difficulties being faced by voters during the ongoing Special Intensive…
Police have intensified the hunt for the alleged main accused, Bijendra Gupta Bhiwandi: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the Maharashtra Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) 2026 paper leak, has claimed that the alleged mastermind, Bijendra Gupta, had lured two employees of an Agra-based printing press that printed the question papers by promising them a plot…
Navi Mumbai: The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Navi Mumbai crime branch busted an international drugs cartel and arrested six people from different parts of the state. Around 1,307 gm of hydro ganja and 5 gm of cocaine collectively worth Rs 1.4 crore were seized. Two accused are wanted by the police, including a drugs supplier…
The IEA Global EV Outlook 2026 is broadly in line with NITI Aayog’s advocacy of a technology-neutral strategy for decarbonising transport. (AI-generated image) MUMBAI: India’s transition to cleaner mobility is expected to follow a technology-agnostic path rather than an exclusively electric vehicle (EV)-led route, with industry experts and policy think tanks indicating that EVs, hybrids,…
According to the notice issued by the assistant commissioner of A ward, the civic body has directed the hotel to pay ₹4.97 crore towards road occupancy charges and ₹22.15 crore towards footpath occupancy charges, taking the total demand to ₹27.12 crore. The amount includes interest and charges up to March 2026. Mumbai: BMC has issued…
Mumbai: High drama was witnessed in the BMC general body on Thursday after the BJP-led house sought to accord urgent status to a proposal to widen a road in Ghatkopar (West), triggering a confrontation over voting procedure that ended with the opposition staging a walkout.The urgent proposal pertained to revising the regular road line of…
