A university official clarified that the issue would be taken up in the next meeting of the council Mumbai: The Mumbai University’s management council, in a meeting held this week, decided not to seek a CID probe in the alleged BCom paper leak, days after the higher education minister, Chandrakant Patil, announced the decision in…
Mumbai: “Asato ma sad gamaya, tamaso ma jyotir gamaya, mrityor ma amritam gamaya—lead me from untruth to truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.” The ancient Sanskrit mantra for enlightenment and peace echoed as 11-year-old Vihan Srivastav, who died when a roadside tree fell on his school bus on Chembur’s Road No 11,…
Mumbai: Heavy rain continued to lash Mumbai on Wednesday, inundating several low-lying areas, triggering tree fall incidents and pushing rainfall in parts of the eastern suburbs well past the 150 mm mark within 12 hours.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a red nowcast warning for Mumbai around 12.30 pm on Wednesday, warning of intense spells…
Mumbai: To tighten the legal framework for recovery of investor assets, virtual digital assets (VDAs) like cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-based digital instruments can be now attached in cases involving financial fraud. Maharashtra legislature on Wednesday passed amendments to the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) Act, 1999 (MPID Act). The Bill, introduced…
Mumbai: BMC’s additional municipal commissioner Prajakta Verma-Lavangare, who is also additional district election officer, has directed that strict action will be initiated against officers and employees who fail to report immediately for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) programme of electoral rolls. She also instructed assistant commissioners and zonal deputy commissioners of the BMC and the…
Eleven accused have been arrested Mumbai: Mankhurd police have busted a fake call centre operating from Dehradun in Uttarakhand that allegedly duped unemployed youths from across the country with airline job offers in Mumbai. Eleven accused have been arrested.Police said the case was registered on February 27 under Sections 319(2) and 318(4) of the Bharatiya…
Bombay high court will hear the matter finally after two weeks Mumbai: The state government on Wednesday submitted before the Bombay high court an expert technical panel report for eco-friendly dissolution of PoP idols, which recommended two separate artificial immersion ponds: one for idols made of environmentally unfriendly material and another for those made of…
Pic used for representation purpose Mumbai: Five families of brain-dead patients donated the organs of their loved ones over five days last week, taking Mumbai’s cadaver organ donation tally to a record 35 in just the first six months of 2026 — among the fastest the city reached the milestone since its deceased organ donation…
Mumbai: A day after 11-year-old Vihaan Srivastav died in a tree crash in Chembur, the BMC suspended three officials–Jagdish Bhoir, assistant garden superintendent of M-West ward, Arun Mundhe, sub-engineer from its roads and traffic department, M-West ward, and Yogesh Parte, assistant engineer of M-East ward–for alleged negligence, pending a departmental inquiry.Following Tuesday’s tragedy, BMC commissioner…
Mumbai: The Bhoiwada Police arrested three men for allegedly stealing donation boxes from a temple in Dadar East and recovered the entire stolen property worth Rs 9,000.According to police, the theft took place between 9 pm on June 28 and 6 am on June 29 at the Vyagheshwar Mahadev Mandir on Sadanand Jadhav Marg, Naigaon.Following…
