Mumbai: The Maharashtra Association of Minority Educational Institutions has written to the school education department requesting the immediate withdrawal of the social and constitutional reservations imposed on minority colleges for admissions to first-year junior colleges (FYJC) in minority institutions. The association has also asked the department to correct the calculation of management and in-house quota…
Mumbai: In a rare case, an FIR was registered after stones were thrown at the Metro One car shed in Andheri (E) on Tuesday. The Amboli police lodged a case against an unidentified individual after small stones, comparable to marble balls in size, were thrown onto the glass roof of the car shed. Workers inside…
Mumbai: A man who was getting off a train from the wrong side, trying to slip in between two iron bars alongside the tracks died after his neck got wedged between two vertical iron bars at Mumbai Central railway station, a little after 9.30 am on Wednesday. He was left dangling between two bars of…
Mumbai: The city witnessed an exceptionally wet May this year, with south Mumbai recording its highest rainfall for the month in over a century.While the IMD’s Colaba observatory broke the all-time rainfall record for May by logging 503 mm — surpassing the previous record of 279.4 mm set in May 1918 — area-specific data from…
Mumbai: Even as degree colleges prepare to declare their third merit list on Thursday, many have got requests from aspirants who have missed out on the deadline to apply. Principals claimed they are getting requests from even students who have scored above 90%.Though the Mumbai University (MU) portal will re-open for admissions after the third…
Mumbai: After a 35-year-old woman lost her life and another was injured following the collapse of a portion of an unauthorised structural extension of a rehabilitated tenement (RT) building at Byculla (W), the Mumbai Building Repairs and Reconstruction Board is issuing warning notices to tenants of such buildings in the city to remove unauthorised extensions….
MUMBAI: Over five years after she first moved the Bombay High Court to intervene and ensure the state gives her a house, Devika Rotawan, the youngest victim of the 26/11 terror attacks and a prosecution witness, was allotted a Mhada house and will soon be moving in.Rotawan, now 25, was a first year BA student…
ULHASNAGAR: On the occasion of World Environment Day today, the first Waste Management Bio Gas Plant in Ulhasnagar city was unveiled by the city’s BJP MLA, Kumar Ailani, and BJP Ulhasnagar District President, Rajesh Vadhrya.This bio gas plant was built by the developer in a private Regency Antilia complex. The waste from hundreds of flat…
MUMBAI: Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Interior and Chairman of the Supreme Haj Committee, reportedly attended the Ministry of Interior’s annual ceremony of the security forces participating in the Haj season. Lakhs of Muslim pilgrims from across the world are currently in Saudi Arabia for the annual Haj being currently…
MUMBAI: A 27-year-old man died after his neck got entangled in an iron fence while attempting to alight from a train on the wrong side at Mumbai Central station on Wednesday morning.The incident took place around 9.44am at Platform No. 4. The deceased, identified through his Aadhaar card as Dhila Rajesh Hamira Bhai, was found…
