MUMBAI: In a move poised to reshape the global gem trade, the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has announced it will no longer apply the 4Cs grading system-cut, colour, clarity, and carat weight-to laboratory-grown diamonds. Instead, beginning from later this year, GIA will issue simplified descriptors for such stones-broadly classifying them as ‘premium’ or ‘standard’-…
Mumbai: Minority colleges in the city are preparing to move court against the “sudden” implementation of social reservations such as SC/ST and OBC quotas for their non-minority seats. The state govt is in the process of releasing the provisional merit list for the ongoing first-year junior college (FYJC) admissions on Thursday.While the state govt did…
Mumbai: State health officials on Wednesday reported two more Covid-linked deaths in MMR, taking the region’s fatality count to seven. While a 76-year-old cancer patient from Dombivli who had tested positive for Covid died during treatment on Wednesday, a Navi Mumbai resident who had diabetes, hypertension and a history of stroke died on June 2.Officials…
Mumbai: Devesh Bhaiya, All India Rank 8 this year in the fiercely contested JEE Advanced, has decided to turn his back on India’s elite engineering institutions and head for MIT instead.He won’t be alone. Ved Lahoti, last year’s Rank 1 and the candidate who has scored the highest in the entrance exam (352/360) in recent…
Mumbai: The three-lane Mumbai-bound arm of the new Thane creek bridge at Vashi will be commissioned by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and his two deputies, Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar, on Thursday at 1 pm through an online ceremony from Igatpuri, where they will throw open the 76 km Bhiwandi-Igatpuri stretch of the Mumbai-Nagpur super…
Mumbai: A special court Monday closed criminal proceedings against developer Niranjan Hiranandani and others in the alleged Rs 30,000 crore Powai Area Development Scheme (PADS) land scam case. The judge observed that prosecuting the accused would not be in keeping with justice and that there was no prima facie case after the state Anti-Corruption Bureau…
Mumbai: A 20-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stealing Rs 7.77 lakh forgotten on a train.A senior citizen from Kandivli had lodged a complaint of theft with the railway police, stating that he had boarded a Churchgate-bound fast train at Ram Mandir, and was to get off at Charni Road. Mid-journey, it was announced…
Thane: Thane Police’s Economic Offenses Wing arrested a businessman, Parag Shah, on Wednesday for allegedly defrauding 124 investors of Rs 91.6 crore through a fake investment scheme that promised high returns through search engine advertisements. Shah was the complainant in the case, but the probe showed him as the key conspirator. He was arrested from…
Navi Mumbai: A major fire broke out in a 20-storeyed residential building Geetanjali Tower in Sector 34, Kharghar, reportedly due to a short circuit in the electrical duct on the seventh floor around 1pm on Wed. Fortunately, there was no casualty as the fire did not spread to the apartments. The Kharghar fire brigade team…
Nashik: Shiv Sena (UBT)’s deputy leader Sudhakar Badgujar was expelled on Wednesday for anti-party activities. Saha samparka pramukh of UBT’s Nashik district unit Datta Gaikwad made the announcement during a press conference at the party’s office in the city on Wednesday. He said party MP Sanjay Raut had called him to inform about Badgujar’s expulsion….
