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Mumbai: Nearly one in five high school students in India rarely feels calm, motivated, or excited, according to the 2025 Student Well-being Pulse Report released by the IC3 Institute and the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE). The nationwide survey of 8,515 adolescents offers a sobering account of the pressures driving student stress,…

Mumbai: With Ganeshotsav barely five days away Aug 27, a flurry of activity is visible in pandals as well as portals of govt. On Friday, state culture minister Ashish Shelar announced a purse of Rs 4.5 crore for 1,800 bhajan mandals in the state to purchase new musical instruments for the festival.Shortly thereafter, the Brihanmumbai…

Mumbai: An Air India flight from Mumbai to Jodhpur returned to the bay due to an operational problem on Friday.An Air India spokesperson said flight AI645 returned to the bay after the pilots decided to discontinue the take-off run. They followed standard operating procedures and brought the aircraft back. “Alternative arrangements were made to fly…

Mumbai: Governor C P Radhakrishnan recently sent the controversial Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill 2024, which aims at targeting Naxalism in urban centres by focussing on ‘left-wing extremist organisations’, to President Droupadi Murmu for her consideration. BJP had on Sunday announced Radhakrishnan as NDA’s candidate for the Vice-President election scheduled for Sept 9.Confirming that the…

Mumbai: City’s elevated Metro corridors—Line 2A (Dahisar West-Andheri West) and Line 7 (Dahisar East-Gundavali)—set a new ridership record on Aug 21, carrying 3.3 lakh passengers in a single day, the highest since the two lines became operational in April 2022.The twin corridors, spanning 35 km along the western suburbs, were built to decongest the city’s…

Palghar: A day after four employees of a pharma company were killed following a gas leak in the unit located at Boisar-Tarapur MIDC, police registered a case against the chairman and three others for culpable homicide not amounting to murder under the BNS.Palghar superintendent of police Yatish Deshmukh identified the accused as Medley Pharmaceuticals’ chairman…

Mumbai: With local body polls around the corner, state govt has started appointing top bureaucrats as directors to community welfare corporations that were announced last year before the assembly elections to woo various communities and castes.A day after naming additional chief secretary (planning) Dr Rajagopal Devara, principal secretary finance (expenditure) Sourabh Vijay, industry department secretary…

Mumbai: The city crime branch’s investigation into an international gang involved in generating mule accounts found that the fraudsters sold 945 accounts, which were used to siphon off more than Rs 60 crore, officials said.A mule account is a bank account utilised by criminals to conceal and transfer illegally obtained funds or to launder money,…

Thane: Three men were arrested, and two country-made pistols along with two live cartridges were seized in coordinated raids by Thane Crime Branch Unit-1 in Badlapur and Ambernath late on Aug 8. The arms were worth Rs 50,200. Acting on a tip-off, a team led by officer Vijay More, carried out the operations. The initial…

MUMBAI: The Mulund police have registered a case of forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy against Akshay Bardapurkar, founder of OTT platform Planet Marathi, and three others of Rs 85 lakh.The FIR was registered on the directions of the Bombay high court on a petition filed by film producer Soumya Vilekar, who alleged that Bardapurkar and…