A grand Military Pipe Band display celebrated 80 years of India’s Independence. MUMBAI: As part of celebrations marking 80 years of India’s Independence, a grand Military Pipe Band display featuring 15 JAK LI and the Artillery Centre Band was held in Mumbai, drawing a gathering of over 40,000 people.15 JAK LI and the Artillery Centre…
Mumbai: Bombay high court has dismissed a student’s petition challenging cancellation of his provisional admission to the three-year LLB course. It held that his three-year undergraduate law degree from a foreign university cannot be treated as a qualifying ‘first degree’ for admission in India.Justices Riyaz Chagla and Farhan Dubash on Friday said the three-year LLB…
Mumbai: The fortunes of Alexandra Cinema, a famous single screen theatre in Nagpada, rose and ebbed like ocean tides in the last 105 years since it was founded by Ardeshir Irani and Abdulally Esoofally in 1921. Once a favourite haunt of movie-goers for its Sunday Hollywood classics, it gradually fell into disrepute for showing X-rated…
Mumbai: A retired college principal from Deonar lost Rs 17 lakh on Aug 8 after a scammer posing as an Election Commission official forced him to download an APK file on the pretext of updating his Special Intensive Revision (SIR) through an online form, warning him he could not vote in the next election if…
Mumbai: The state nodal cyber police have registered an offence against unknown fraudsters after several Maharashtra home department officials received WhatsApp messages from foreign numbers impersonating additional chief secretary (home) Manisha Mhaiskar to seek financial assistance.An official from home department has lodged an FIR alleging that the impersonator used Mhaiskar’s name and profile photograph to…
Mumbai: A junior college student was killed after the bike he was riding pillion on was hit by a speeding tempo near Jari Mari Maxus Cinema in Sakinaka, and he was thrown in the air before landing on the road and suffering severe chest injuries, police said.Sakinaka police said they arrested the tempo driver, Mohammed…
Pratibha Patil inaugurated the Women Graduates Union hostel in 1974 Not far from the bustling fish market in Sassoon Dock sits the Women Graduates Union building in Colaba, with its offices and working women’s hostel tucked into a leafy lane. The organisation, established in 1915, turns 111 this year.It plans to celebrate with a host…
Navi Mumbai: A 42-year-old man killed his 65-year-old widowed mother residing in Vashi by strangling and banging her head on the floor on Sunday. The man allegedly murdered her as she was preventing him from staying with his estranged wife, who had seperated from him due to frequent quarrels with his mother.Shashikant Chandekar, senior inspector…
Mumbai: BJP’s plan to provide tablet devices to all 237 corporators appears to have hit a procurement hurdle, with the civic administration finding it difficult to buy the devices through Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal.According to a BJP functionary, the tablets proposed to be purchased are of Chinese make. Since the particular Chinese-made tablets are reportedly…
Admission procedures, reservation policies, fee fixation, grievance redressal mechanisms and recruitment and pay norms for teaching and non-teaching staff will also come under its review Mumbai: The state govt has set up a high-level expert committee to review and overhaul the norms governing the establishment and functioning of private universities in the state in a…
