Mumbai: State’s higher and technical education department has proposed launching an integrated portal for facilitating admissions to the top 500 QS-ranked international universities for students from Maharashtra.The proposed portal intends to provide credible information to aspirants, including brochures, fee structures, admission procedures, eligibility criteria and other key details. State govt also plans to reach out…

Mumbai: Almost two years after govt asked various state-run corporations to undertake slum redevelopment at 228 locations through joint ventures (JVs) with Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), 181 projects have been scrapped as the agencies made little progress and many were found not feasible.Of its 77 planned JVs, BMC will now implement only 44, Mhada two…