Kalyan: Several parents of Kalyan’s Smt K C Gandhi English School’s students alleged the school administration has barred students from wearing tilak, bindi, bangles, rakhi and sacred threads. The decision has triggered anger among parents, prompting the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) education department to step in and demand an explanation from the school authorities.In response…
Mumbai: SP MLA Rais Shaikh has demanded that EC carry out a special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Maharashtra after the local body polls. In a letter to EC, he said if SIR is carried out during the elections, many voters’ names may get deleted. Pointing out that the administration will be…
Mumbai: The state cabinet on Tuesday approved the Maharashtra Global Competence Centre Policy 2025, which focuses on creating infrastructure and administrative agility for inclusive development in urban and rural areas.This policy aims to establish 400 more new global competence centres by 2030, generate an investment of Rs 50,600 crore, create four lakh skilled jobs, create…
MUMBAI: Noted Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi has said ” if cow progeny survives, Sanatan Dharma will survive too.”Oberoi said this at the 11th anniversary celebrations of “Gau Bharat Bharti,” India’s first national newspaper dedicated to the cow lineage, in Mumbai.It was celebrated with the “Rashtra Seva Samman Samaroh” (National Service Award Ceremony).The event was held…
Senior leader Haji Mudassar Patel joined the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Tuesday. MUMBAI: In a big blow to the city Congress, senior leader Haji Mudassar Patel joined the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Tuesday. Patel, who was the city Congress minority cell vice-chairman, had been with the party for over…
MUMBAI: Bombay High Court on Wednesday expressed its disinclination to permit Elgar Parishad Maoist-links case accused Anand Teltumbde, an academic, to travel to Amsterdam and the United Kingdom to give academic lectures, saying he could always give them virtually. Teltumbde, who is on bail, in the 2018 case, then withdrew his plea, and the court…
MUMBAI: A 14-year-old school-going boy died by suicide at his Malad residence on Tuesday. Police said no suicide note was found and the reason isn’t clear.The child (name withheld) was found hanging at his home in the morning. After the Malad Police was informed, they rushed him to a hospital where he was pronounced dead….
Representational Image (AI) MUMBAI: Garba dancers are flocking to the western suburbs to enjoy the extended deadline for loudspeakers from 10.00 pm to midnight over Ashtami-Navami Sept 30-Oct 1. This year indoor dandia events have an advantage as they are insulated against heavy rain. Outdoor venues have fortified themselves using tarpaulin and plastic covers.Tuesday marked…
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has formally approved budget allocations for the newly constituted Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF), with 346 posts created to strengthen the state’s crackdown on drug-related crimes.According to the Government Resolution, the Cabinet has sanctioned ₹19.24 crore as recurring expenditure and ₹3.12 crore as non-recurring expenditure for the new ANTF office. The expenditure…
Mumbai: The CID must take the report of the judicial magisterial inquiry into custodial death cases into consideration before filing a closure report in such cases, stated a govt resolution issued on Tuesday.Both CID/police and judicial magistrate conduct separate independent probes into custodial death cases under Criminal Procedure Code Section 174(1) or BNSS Section 194(1),…
