Navi Mumbai: Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s commissioner Kailas Shinde directed that pre-monsoon works in Navi Mumbai should be completed by May 15 and asked all authorities to coordinate so citizens do not face problems during the monsoon and the system remains ready for relief work. Various govt agencies attended a review meeting recently under the…
Mumbai: “I don’t see him worried any time,” says Sunil Jain about his son Vihaan. For most fathers that may sound reassuring. For Sunil, it reflects something far deeper.Vihaan Jain, a student of Jai Hind College who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic disorder, scored 73.33% in the Arts stream this year — a result…
Mumbai: For Tanush Shantaram Nalawade, a student of Valia Junior College, this year’s result is more than just a number. Scoring 62.67%, Tanush says the achievement carries deep personal meaning after he lost his father during the academic year.“Initially, I was deeply confused and shaken by what I went through, but my family members, friends…
MUMBAI: The trial in the attempted murder of actor Salman Khan commenced recently before the special MCOCA court, with the testimony of a private security guard who submitted that the “firing was an attempt to kill the actor.”The witness who served as the actor’s personal bodyguard for eight years provided a detailed account of the…
Mumbai: The identity of the angry woman who confronted minister Girish Mahajan over a traffic jam during the reservation agitation on April 21 was revealed on Saturday. Worli resident Teena Choudhary released a statement on social media.She said she wanted to pick up her daughter from music class when her car got held up for…
Mumbai: In the ISC exam results declared on April 30, the number of students in Maharashtra scoring 90% and above rose by over 30%, from 1,211 to 1,597. In comparison, the number of high scorers in HSC have declined. Although ISC students constitute a smaller pool overall, they are likely to intensify competition for popular…
Mumbai: A special court on Saturday directed the Additional Director General (Prisons) to conduct a necessary inquiry into the assault allegations made by an undertrial lodged in Taloja jail against four prison officers.The accused Sarvar Khan alleged that he was targeted as he had complained against them and become a witness in the alleged custodial…
Sudesh Kumar, who played the protagonist of the tragic love story, ‘Saranga’ (1961), still remembered for its melancholic title track, who became a familiar face as supporting lead in money-spinning Southern productions like ‘Chhoti Bahen’ (1959), ‘Bharosa’ (1963) and ‘Khandan’ (1965), and who went on to produce absorbing thrillers like ‘Uljhan’ (1975), passed away at…
Navi Mumbai: Two men from Dombivli were safely rescued using robotic watercraft at the Kashid beach in Murud taluka on April 29. The two had entered the sea but were drowning when the robotic buoy was pressed into service. This is the first such successful operation after three robotic watercrafts were deployed at Nagaon, Kashid…
In Sept 1927, Khwaja Abdul Hamied (1898-1972), returning from Germany with a doctorate in chemistry, reached Bombay from Columbo. Completely broke, he went to the Khilafat House to see Maulana Shaukat Ali who gave him Rs 50 for the train journey to Aligarh. Hamied went on to found Cipla, the pharma company he and later…
