Mumbai: Dindoshi police last week arrested three labour contractors for allegedly taking a 14-year-old boy from Mumbai to Rajasthan and employing him despite knowing that he was a minor. The arrested accused, Kasim Mursharafali Khan, Mahendra Kashyap and Sanjay Sacheti, all of whom aged between 30 and 35, were nabbed from a temple in Rajasthan,…
Maharashtra’s ‘Aai’ tourism policy is empowering women entrepreneurs, with over 900 securing loans totaling Rs 72.49 crore MUMBAI: Maharashtra’s push to make tourism more women-led is gathering momentum, with over 900 women entrepreneurs securing loans worth Rs 72.49 crore under the state’s ‘Aai’ tourism policy, aimed at boosting women’s participation in the sector.Launched by the…
Mumbai: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has extended the deadline for submitting the online application form for NEET-UG 2026 up to 9 pm on March 11, 2026. The payment of fees can be made up to 11.50 pm on the same day. The notice added that no further extension will be granted. Several students were…
Navi Mumbai: A mangrove cleanup drive near Sarsole jetty in Navi Mumbai, led by Environment Life Foundation and supported by the state govt and the civic body, marked its 290th consecutive week on International Women’s Day by dedicating the entire effort to ‘women mangrove soldiers’—volunteers who quietly protect coastal ecosystems week after week. More than…
India’s first ‘musical road’ MUMBAI: Less than a month after the city’s first melody road was inaugurated the BMC has decided to check the decibel levels of the noise coming off it at the nearest residential building in the vicinity. This comes after residents from Breach Candy wrote to Municipal Commissioner, raising strong objections to…
Mumbai: Following an assault by a mob on a BMC team carrying out a drive against unauthorised hawkers and encroachment at Lokhandwala Circle area in Kandivli East, municipal commissioner Bhushan Gagrani visited the area on Sunday and issued directives to take strict action against all unauthorised hawkers in the area as well as against shopkeepers,…
Few know Nepean Sea Road as Lady Laxmibai Jagmohandas Marg or that Thane’s Smt Gladys Alvares Marg was renamed. Of Mumbai’s 2,000 km of roads, under 150 km honour women, per BMC data. Exclude goddesses and famous figures, and fewer than 300 remain. This Women’s Day, Sharmila Ganesan Ram traces real trailblazers.Pandita Ramabai Marg, GamdeviNow…
Thane: Thane Rural Crime Branch team have arrested a 21-year-old engineering student for the alleged murder of a cab driver whose body was found in a remote area of Ahilyanagar district after he had gone missing for four days.The accused, identified as Adarsh Chandrakant Bhalerao, was apprehended from Titwala following an investigation by the Thane…
Mumbai: A sessions court convicted and sentenced a 45-year-old labourer to life imprisonment for the brutal 2020 murder of a man and the attempted murder of an eyewitness using an iron hammer. The court found the accused Subal Choudhary, also known as Bangali, guilty of killing Javed Siddiqui Shaikh and grievously injuring Ayaz Khan following…
Mumbai: Bombay high court recently directed the state govt to pay Rs 50 lakh compensation under a May 29, 2020 Govt Resolution (GR) within 16 weeks to the widow of a peon in the Goods and Services Tax Department who died due to Covid-19. Justices Makarand Karnik and Shriram Modak on Feb 23 said that…
