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MUMBAI: Wedding celebrations and banquet events in Mumbai and Maharashtra could become less complicated and potentially less expensive after the Centre clarified that no music licensing charges would apply to marriage-related functions and initiated steps towards a single-window music copyright licensing system.The development emerged from a stakeholder meeting convened by Union commerce and industry minister…

MUMBAI: Glitches plagued the first-year junior college (FYJC) centralised admission process (CAP) portal for the second consecutive day on Friday, forcing the state education department to once again extend the deadline, till 6pm on Monday, to fill and lock parts 1 and 2 of the online admission form for regular round 1.Day 1’s snags had…

The fee on CBSE’s photocopy verification re-evaluation service portal first dropped from Rs 100 to just Re 1 late on Thursday and then rose to Rs 69.67. By Friday morning, the number zoomed to Rs 8,000. Closer to noon, it surged to Rs 69,420 Mumbai: Class 12 students applying for photocopies of their answer booklets…

Priyanka KakodkarMumbai: Citizens in the state who have been successfully mapped (from the 2002 voter list to the latest voter list) ahead of the special intensive revision (SIR) in Maharashtra will not be required to furnish documents when the enumerators visit. However, those whose mapping showed anomalies or citizens who did not participate in this…

MUMBAI: BMC has begun soil investigation ahead of the proposed 52-MLD (million litres per day) reservoir project at Malabar Hill, marking the next step in its plan to create an alternative to the ageing underground water reservoir while attempting to preserve the iconic Hanging Gardens above it.Civic officials said the geotechnical investigation will help determine…

CBI has named firm directors Kishor Gupta and Vijay Agarwal, along with an unknown public servant, in the case Mumbai: The CBI conducted searches at the premises of the promoters of Shri Hari Extrusion Pvt Ltd in connection with the alleged defrauding Punjab National Bank (PNB) of Rs 62 crore. CBI has named company directors…

Mumbai: A 49-year-old senior officer attached to a credit cooperative society died nearly three weeks after suffering serious head injuries in a road accident on the Eastern Express Highway near the Airoli Bridge landing. Police have registered a case against the accused driver for causing death by negligence and rash driving.Navghar police said according to…

Mumbai: Observing that the fraud “damaged” students’ education and caused them to suffer, a sessions court on Friday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of the principal of a Bandra architecture college accused of cheating students by offering unapproved vocational degrees through unrecognised universities.The court rejected the plea filed by Sunil Magdum, principal of Dr Baliram…

Residents across Naupada-Kopri, Wagle, Savarkarnagar, and Majiwada-Manpada wards affected. Thane: The Thane Municipal Corporation on Friday announced a 10% water cut in areas located along the Thane-Mumbai fringes primarily serviced with water sourced and supplied from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.Areas under the Naupada-Kopri, Lokmanya Savarkarnagar, Wagle Estate and parts of Majiwada-Manpada Ward Committee will be…

Thane: Shiv Sena MP Naresh Mhaske on Wednesday pitched for the transfer of the defunct Mogli Dam at Ilthanpada in Digha from the railways to the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC), claiming the reservoir could help mitigate water shortages in parts of the rapidly expanding satellite city.The demand was raised during a joint inspection of…