Navi Mumbai: In Raigad’s 10 municipal councils, Sena won three posts of president, the two NCP factions two each, and BJP, Sena (UBT) and Bharatiya Shetkari Kamgar Paksha (BSKP) a post each. NCP suffered a blow in strongholds of Mahad and Shrivardhan. In Uran, where BJP and Sena had governed for years, Sena failed to…
Thane: A case has been registered against four persons for allegedly creating eight fake GST-registered firms and claiming input tax credit of more than Rs 22 crore, police said on Sunday. No arrests have been made so far. Based on a complaint lodged by an official from the SGST department, the case was filed against…
Mumbai: Thanking the people of Maharashtra for BJP’s resounding victory in the municipal council and nagar panchayat elections on Sunday, chief minister Devendra Fadanvis said: “I had predicted that 75% of the nagar [council] presidents will be from the Mahayuti and the results endorse it. Nearly 3,300 corporators are from the Mahayuti. Once again, BJP…
Mira Bhayandar: Twenty-three-year-old Anjali Tak was asleep on her bed when a leopard entered her flat from the open balcony and pounced towards her. The animal’s claw cut through the Bhayander (E) resident’s scalp, left eyebrow, eyelid, nose, upper jaw, and lips.“In some spots, we could see right to the bone,” said Dr Vinita Puri,…
Mumbai: The residents of Worli’s Sagar Darshan and Chaitanya Sai Janata Colony SRA Housing Societies protested on Sunday against the Slum Rehabilitation Authority’s (SRA) decision to terminate the current developer just over a year after issuing a Letter of Intent (LoI) and attempting to appoint a new developer.The slum tenants stated that 2,500 families would…
Mumbai: In a cross-border child custody battle, the Bombay high court on Thursday dismissed a father’s petition for habeas corpus (to produce a person from unlawful custody). The court found no basis in his plea that the minor was being illegally detained abroad, as a court in Germany granted sole custody to the mother five…
MUMBAI: As workplaces become increasingly shaped by algorithms, dashboards and predictive models, the role of human resources is quietly undergoing a fundamental shift. No longer confined to administration and compliance, HR is being recast as a strategic, data-led function — one that sits at the intersection of people, technology and organisational foresight. It is against…
MUMBAI: At a time when India’s drug addiction crisis is deepening even as access to care remains uneven and stigmatised, researchers at Nagaland University have put forward a proposal that seeks to reframe rehabilitation for the digital age. Scholars from the university’s Department of Law have advanced the idea of a ‘Digital Rehabilitation Law’ —…
MUMBAI: As artificial intelligence steadily embeds itself into the machinery of governance, from welfare delivery to regulatory oversight, the question confronting India’s public sector is no longer whether to adopt AI, but how to do so responsibly. Responding to this inflection point, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras has announced a new national capacity-building programme…
MUMBAI: On a campus better known for case studies, midnight debates and restless ambition, an institution as old as independent India quietly reinvented itself for a generation that has grown up swiping screens rather than licking stamps. The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow on Thursday inaugurated Uttar Pradesh’s first Gen-Z post office, marking a symbolic…
