As per new rules, security guards will no longer frisk students before exams MUMBAI: Putting its July 2026 rules on penalties for academic misconduct on hold and reverting to the (milder) April 2015 policy for two pending mid-semester examinations on Oct 10 and 11, IIT-Bombay’s senate, at its emergency meeting on Wednesday, agreed on an…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Nodal Cyber Police, probing an alleged racket in which foreign medical graduates obtained Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) registration without clearing the mandatory Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE), have arrested a 36-year-old tout from Nashik.The accused, identified as Rahul Gopal Patil, allegedly lured foreign medical graduates who had failed or not cleared the…
Mumbai: Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) and MSRTC on Wednesday inaugurated bus services to the airport from Dadar, CSMT, Borivali and Pune. The first phase will operate 16 daily services on the NMIA-Dadar/CSMT corridors, 8 to Borivli and 2 to Pune using key routes, including Atal Setu, said the airport in a press statement. The…
West Cyber police registered an FIR against an unidentified person on Sept 28 and are trying to trace the scammer who allegedly gained remote access to the homemaker’s mobile phone and deleted links, WhatsApp numbers, messages and transaction history. Mumbai: A 79-year-old widow from Juhu lost Rs 11.7 lakh after ordering dry fruits worth Rs…
Mumbai: The rainfall deficit in Maharashtra has not only caused widespread drought in the state, it has led to a sharp fall in groundwater levels, pointing to a looming water crisis. As many as 87% or 3,321 of the 3,816 observation wells surveyed in the state have reported a fall in the groundwater level, TOI…
Khopoli police registered an FIR against the grandfather and eight to 10 unidentified persons for allegedly assaulting the doctor and damaging hospital property. They also registered an accidental death report and sought the newborn’s postmortem report from JJ Hospital Navi Mumbai: After his seven-day-old granddaughter died while under treatment for jaundice, a 59-year-old man allegedly…
Mumbai: “They are students, not anti-socials,” Bombay high court observed orally while hearing a plea against the ongoing protests by thousands in Pune against alleged malpractices in Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) exams.A bench of Chief Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi and Justice Advait Sethna said students have the right to protest if there are genuine…
Nepal called off its search operation on Oct 5, 40 days after the flash floods Mumbai: With Nepal suspending all non-essential search and rescue operations on Monday, 40 days after the devastating floods on Aug 26, the state govt has begun the process for families of those still missing from Maharashtra to get death certificates.It…
Mumbai: The All India Khilafat committee has cited four fatwas it has secured to back its claim that the iconic Khilafat House in Byculla is not a waqf property.Its chairman, Sarfraz Arzoo, said on Wednesday the panel wrote to four different religious organisations, both Sunni and Deobandi, seeking fatwas on whether a “leased property can…
Mumbai: Mayor and BJP corporator Ritu Tawde and two co-accused were granted exemption from personal appearance by a sessions court on Wednesday, but each was ordered to pay Rs 1,000 due to their repeated absence from proceedings in the 2016 Shastri Nagar municipal school assault case.Additional sessions judge Gopal G Bhansali directed Tawde, Zakiruddin Sayyed…
