Mumbai: Major General Vivek Tyagi, recently appointed as Additional Director General of the Maharashtra NCC Directorate, made a courtesy call on Advocate Manikrao Kokate, Hon’ble Sports & Youth Affairs Minister of Maharashtra, at Mantralaya in Mumbai. The meeting briefed on important ongoing NCC initiatives, including the expansion being undertaken to increase the enrolled strength of…
Navi Mumbai: Nerul police booked three miscreant transgenders for performing an obscene dance after stopping vehicles at a traffic signal under the Nerul flyover on the Sion-Panvel highway on Tuesday morning.Nerul police said that the accused transgender persons were detained and escorted to the police station, where an FIR was registered against them under Bharatiya…
Mumbai: Metro passengers can now book a single QR ticket for journeys involving multiple lines, ending the hassle of juggling different apps. The new OneTicket app has been launched on the govt-backed Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) network to provide unified ticketing across the city’s Metro corridors.At present, Mumbai has around 70 km of…
Mumbai: The MIDC police apprehended Arvind Arogyaraj, a 31-year-old resident of Bengaluru employed as a delivery boy with an online food ordering and delivery company, and seized two endangered baby gibbons from his possession. Arogyaraj was handed over to the Thane Forest Department for further investigation after authorities discovered that he acted as a courier…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to use reserve funds from the state health insurance schemes for the treatment of nine critical diseases where the cost exceeds Rs 5 lakh.The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.Under the expanded Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Jan Arogya Yojana and Ayushman…
Mumbai: In a huge setback for National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Kolkata, Bengal govt has declared its land registration “irregular”, leaving the premier institute stranded mid-construction and half-legal.In 2022, Bengal Chemicals, founded by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, handed over 20 acres in Kolkata to NIPER in lieu of an approximate Rs 100…
Thane: Police have registered a case against four persons for allegedly cheating an interior decorator here of Rs 97.75 lakh under the pretext of arranging a business loan through CSR funds, officials said on Tuesday.The accused lured the 45-year-old victim, living in the Badlapur area of Maharashtra’s Thane district, by promising him a business loan…
MUMBAI: The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has demanded that the govt immediately constitute a judicial probe—hold a Court of Inquiry, that is—into the crash of Air India Flight AI 171. In a letter to the ministry, FIP alleged that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s (AAIB) inquiry was “irrevocably compromised” by bias, unlawful leaks, and…
MUMBAI: Seven persons sustained severe burn injuries after a fire broke out in Ram Kisan Mestri Chawl, opposite ESIC Hospital in Kandivali East around 9am on Tuesday. Officials suspect that a leak in an LPG cylinder triggered the blaze inside a ground-plus-one shop.The fire was doused within half an hour, but not before it left…
Mumbai: SNDT University is quietly scripting a story of expansion, with its student rolls swelling to nearly 90,000 this year—the highest in four years. The figure, up from last year’s 84,000, is double what Vice Chancellor Prof Ujwala Chakradeo inherited when she took charge in 2021.The reasons, she says, are not hard to find. A…
