Kalyan: A new chain-snatching pattern has triggered fear among residents of Kalyan (East), after a gang using a four-wheeler targeted two elderly women during their morning walks and fled with their gold ornaments. Unlike the usual bike-borne chain-snatchers, this gang used a car to commit the crime and escape, leaving citizens shocked and concerned about…
Mumbai: Nearly a decade after its inception, the Maharashtra National Law University (MNLU), Mumbai, is finally a step closer toward establishing its permanent campus in Pahadi, Goregaon Village, near Versova metro station. The university, which has been operating out of a rented govt building in Powai since 2015, will soon see the launch of its…
Mumbai: In wake of the repeated complaints by motorists on the poor road condition of roads on flyovers at Aarey, Vakola and Vikhroli, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry and local MP Piyush Goyal in a meeting held with civic officials on Sunday directed the civic body to take up resurfacing roads on the flyovers…
Mumbai:The Bombay High Court rejected the anticipatory bail application of UK based businessman who is accused of rape, on the grounds that he has been declared an absconder and that a proclamation had already been issued, observing that an absconding accused cannot ordinarily claim anticipatory bail.Justice Madhav J. Jamdar, while hearing anticipatory bail application of…
Mumbai: Over 50% of private unaided institutions offering professional courses in the state are yet to submit their fee revision proposals to the Fee Regulatory Authority (FRA), even as the deadline ended on Oct 31. Some of the colleges claimed they were unable to process the proposals due to exams and Diwali vacation.While FRA had…
Mumbai: Come 2026, Japan’s Globis University will plant its flag in BKC, Mumbai—its seventh hub in the world and first in India. Here, students can dip their toes into management through a pre-MBA, stack credentials with a nano-MBA, ease into a part-time programme, or opt for the full-fledged English MBA in Tokyo.For Globis, this isn’t…
Mumbai: Starting today, the strike called by the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) will hamper non-emergency services at govt hospitals across the state. Doctors believe their demand for an impartial probe into a colleague’s suicide in Phaltan—following her allegation that she was raped by a police official—remains unmet.This strike will also affect services at…
Mumbai: A fire broke out on Sunday morning within the civic run Nair Hospital premises at Mumbai Central.The incident was reported around 11.24 am behind the hospital’s G building on Anandrao Nair Marg. The blaze was confined to garbage, foam, thermocol material, drainage pipes, electric wiring, and AC compressor units located in the open space…
Bhiwandi: Accusing him of hurting national sentiments, several organisations staged protests in Bhiwandi on Sunday against SP MLA Rais Shaikh for opposing the state’s directive to all govt schools mandating the singing of ‘Vande Mataram’ from Oct 31-Nov 7 to mark its 150th anniversary.The organisations asserted that the national song is meant to evoke patriotism…
Navi Mumbai: An unusual incident occurred at a container terminal in Uran, where a foreign species of snake was discovered inside a tyre container. The snake, identified as a corn snake or red rat snake, scientifically known as Pantherophis guttatus, is native to North America and is considered an exotic species in India. The incident…
