Mumbai: Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has appealed establishments and its employers to complete registration under the Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana or PMVBRY. New employees earning up to Rs 1 lakh per month, registered with EPFO for the first time, are eligible for a cash incentive of up to Rs 15,000 (disbursed in…
Mumbai: The BJP on Friday will observe 150 years of ‘Vande Mataram‘ as a national song by holding programmes at 150 locations across the country. In Maharashtra, the state BJP has organised functions at 15 places, including five in Mumbai: Colaba, Sion, Andheri, Malad East, and Mankhurd.Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis will lead the programme in…
Mumbai: The immigration officials at the Mumbai International Airport stopped 18-year-old Jorawar Singh of Ludhiana, Punjab, from boarding a flight to Fiji via Singapore on Wednesday after finding discrepancies in the visa on page six of his passport. They uncovered a counterfeit Greece visa that Singh had obtained in May.Immigration officer MA Ansari and other…
Thane: A Marathi medium school in Thane has launched an innovative initiative to introduce its students to farming and environmental awareness through practical, field-based lessons.Saraswati Secondary High School, Naupada, on Wednesday took 80 students from its English and Marathi sections to a farmland in nearby Yeoor, where the students harvested paddy crops sown by their…
The world of Jung Kook, member of BTS and one of contemporary pop’s most recognisable voices, will be showcased in Mumbai this December. ‘GOLDEN: The Moments’, an exhibition centred on his first solo album, will make its India debut at Mehboob Studios from December 12, 2025, to January 11, 2026. Organised in collaboration with HYBE…
MUMBAI: A leading art gallery in Worli, Mumbai, is celebrating its 21st anniversary with a unique, month-long exhibition beginning Nov 11.The exhbition ‘Fuel to the Fire’ celebrates “collaboration as the heart of creation”. Curated by Adil Writer and Shayonti Salvi, it includes 11 leading painters and ceramic artists from across India, “pairing them to co-create…
MUMBAI: Drug discovery has long been a billion-dollar, decade-long race between chemistry and chance. Now, a team of researchers from the Wadhwani School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (WSAI), IIT Madras, and The Ohio State University, U.S., has built an artificial-intelligence framework that could dramatically shorten that race — by teaching machines to think…
MUMBAI: At the edge of Hyderabad’s fast-growing tech corridor, a quiet revolution in rural empowerment is taking shape. The Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) has inaugurated a Skill Development Centre under its Rural Development Centre (RDC), a space designed to equip rural and semi-urban youth with the confidence, creativity, and capabilities to thrive in…
MUMBAI: In a city that prides itself on resilience and reinvention, Mumbai’s municipal schools are learning a new language — that of empathy, awareness and responsibility. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has partnered with Rangeet, a social enterprise focused on life skills and wellbeing, to introduce the Social Emotional & Ecological Knowledge (SEEK)© curriculum across…
MUMBAI: At a time when the conversation on India’s green transition is dominated by finance and technology, a quieter revolution is gathering force — one that begins with people. Ashoka University and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) convened the Climate Workforce Summit at the Mumbai Cricket Association Recreation Centre to mark five years of the…
