The Times of India’s Happy Streets initiative transformed Chembur’s RCF Road into a vibrant, vehicle-free community hub on February 1. Residents of all ages enjoyed a morning filled with fitness, art, and shared experiences, including a Zumba session with actress Dipshikkha Nagpal and a refreshing laughter club session. Happy Streets, an initiative by The Times…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday launched a sharp attack on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat over his recent remarks describing linguistic assertion and agitations as a “kind of disease”, calling the statement dismissive of India’s federal and linguistic realities.Reacting to Bhagwat’s comment made at an event in Mumbai on February 8,…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra deputy chief Minister Sunetra Pawar on Tuesday assumed charge at the state secretariat, Mantralaya, 13 days after the death of her husband and deputy CM Ajit Pawar.She was accompanied by senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders and her elder son, Parth Pawar, as she took her seat in the deputy chief minister’s office,…
MUMBAI: Just two days after being named the Mahayuti candidate for the upcoming mayoral election, Ghatkopar corporator Ritu Tawade is set for an unopposed victory, paving the way for her to take charge as Mumbai’s mayor. The election is scheduled to be held on Wednesday at noon. Tawade is poised to become the city’s eighth…
Ritu Tawde to take charge as Mumbai Mayor on February 11 MUMBAI: BJP corporator Ritu Tawde is all set to become Mumbai’s next mayor after being elected unopposed in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls. The mayoral election, scheduled for Wednesday at noon, will formally mark her taking charge as the city’s eighth woman mayor,…
A special court denied bail to Armen Garun Ataian, a Ukrainian national, in a major money laundering case. The court cited serious allegations of using a fake birth certificate and the large scale of the economic offense MUMBAI: Observing that there were serious allegations that the accused procured and used a fake birth certificate to…
City pauses as 64 step into ascetic life in landmark Jain diksha at Borivali Mumbai woke up on Sunday to a sight rarely witnessed in a modern metropolis: 64 mumukshus stepping away from worldly attachments and into the austere discipline of Jain diksha. The occasion — Sanyamrang Utsav at Chikuwadi Ground, Borivali West marked one…
Mumbai: The Narendra Jadhav-led language committee submitted its final report to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, and it is expected to be placed before the cabinet at an upcoming meeting.Committee chairman Narendra Jadhav said the submission went beyond recommendations on the language formula. “Along with the main report on the language policy, I submitted a supplementary…
Woman with hormonal disorder dies after ward boy posing as doctor gives her injections at her Vashi residence NAVI MUMBAI: Police have arrested a quack after a 21-year-old woman, who was suffering from hormonal disorder, died allegedly after he administered injections at her Vashi residence on Feb 5.The accused, Sandesh Pashte (30), is a Mankhurd…
Pune: Veteran politician and NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar was on Monday evening admitted to a private hospital in the city with chest congestion. Doctors in the hospital said Pawar’s condition is stable.The 85-year-old Rajya Sabha member was accompanied by wife Pratibha Pawar, daughter Supriya Sule, son-in-law Sadanand Sule and grandnephew Rohit Pawar to Ruby…
