MUMBAI: In a fresh twist to the political drama in Ambernath municipal council, a day after 12 suspended Congress councillors joined BJP, all four councillors from NCP withdrew support to the BJP-led front and backed Shiv Sena. Sena, whichhad emerged as the single largest party with 27 seats, now has the support of 32 councillors…
MUMBAI: Regional carrier India One Air’s Caravan 208 aircraft carrying six people force-landed near Jalda, around eight nautical miles short of Rourkela, on Saturday afternoon. All passengers and crew survived and are under medical observation, officials said.The Directorate General of Civil Aviation said that the Caravan 208 aircraft (VT-KSS) was flying from Bhubaneswar to Rourkela….
MUMBAI: The conversation on artificial intelligence in healthcare is often dominated by grand promises — faster diagnoses, scalable access, precision medicine at population scale. But at the inaugural Winter Dialogue on RAISE (Responsible AI for Synergistic Excellence in Healthcare) at Ashoka University last week, the focus shifted quietly but firmly to a harder set of…
MUMBAI: The BJP and Shiv Sena bargained for every seat in the BMC and the negotiations dragged on for over a week but in the end the Mahayuti is not fighting on four seats in the civic polls. Political observers said that this was surprising as the Mahayuti is pitted against the Shiv Sena (UBT)-MNS…
MUMBAI: AIMIM leader Waris Pathan strongly reacted to remarks by BJP leader Nitesh Rane, asserting that threats and criticism will not intimidate him and expressing support for Asaduddin Owaisi’s dream of a day when a hijab-clad woman will rise to become the Prime Minister of India.Speaking on the controversy, Pathan said, “The Constitution of India…
MUMBAI: January is being observed as National Road Safety Month, but the urgency behind this year’s theme — ‘Zero-Fatality Month’ — is less commemorative and more corrective. With over 1.7 lakh people dying on Indian roads every year, the equivalent of more than 450 deaths a day, road crashes have quietly become one of the…
MUMBAI: When S Krishnan, Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, inaugurated the PARAM SHAKTI supercomputing facility at IIT Madras earlier this month, it marked more than the launch of a machine. It signalled a maturing phase in India’s scientific infrastructure — one where scale, sovereignty and scientific ambition are beginning to converge.At…
In an exclusive pre-poll interaction with the Times group on Friday, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis spoke on a range of subjects. Excerpts:Q: The Thackeray cousins questioned your right to speak about Mumbai saying you were not born here.A: Who understands Mumbai? One of the great names that comes up is the late Balasaheb Thackeray, but…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only MUMBAI: Three members of a family, including a 19-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy, died after a fire broke out in a residential structure at Bhagatsingh Nagar in Goregaon (West) in the early hours of Saturday.According to the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB), the fire was reported at around 3.06…
Thane: State govt is developing a network of waterway routes spanning nearly 200 nautical miles to connect farflung suburbs in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) with the newly opened Navi Mumbai International Airport and Nariman Point, said chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said at an event on Wednesday. “Once operational, the network is expected to benefit…
