Mumbai: Hundreds of commuters were left in the lurch when a track relaying train (TRT) used during the megablock derailed near Nerul station on Central Railway’s Harbour line on Sunday, leading to suspension of services on both Up (towards CSMT) and Down (away from CSMT) lines between Vashi and Panvel.A resident of Nerul stated that…
Mumbai: An FIR was registered against a 16-year-old boy for the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl. Police said the accused, who was detained, filmed the girl and further sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions, threatening to circulate the video clip if she did not meet him. Charges were also applied against unknown persons…
Mumbai: An accused in the 1993 Mumbai communal riots case on the run for the past 32 years has been held from Wadala area of the metropolis, a police official said on Sunday.The Wadala police station official identified him as Arif Ali Hashmulla Khan (54).“After the communal riots of 1993, a case was registered at…
Mumbai: A day after Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin tweeted to back the rally by the Thackeray cousins in Mumbai and said BJP had been forced to retreat for the second time against Hindi imposition in schools, Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday welcomed his support. However, he said his party was…
Mumbai: After the state culture department asked Urdu Sahitya Academy to vacate its premises in a govt building in Fort and look for a rented office, SP MLA Rais Shaikh urged deputy CM Ajit Pawar and minority development minister Datta Bharane to stay the eviction notice. The academy will mark its golden jubilee this year….
Mumbai: A day after the estranged Thackeray cousins shared a political stage, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut cautioned Raj Thackeray against straying from the path of unity while reminding him that past forays into the BJP camp had brought him no dividends.Raut’s comments in a column in the Sena (UBT) mouthpiece, coming after a…
Uddhav and Raj Thackeray, estranged cousins, united for a ‘victory rally’ after the state government withdrew its Hindi language policy. Sharing a stage after two decades, they hinted at a potential political alliance for upcoming civic elections, emphasizing their newfound unity. MUMBAI: In an indication that the coming together of the estranged Thackeray cousins could…
During the last census in 2011, the surveyor who showed up at Yasmin Shaikh’s doorstep did what people often do when they hear her name—he assumed. “Urdu,” he wrote in the mother tongue column without asking. “My mother tongue is Marathi,” Shaikh demurred.Seated at her dining table just days after turning 100, the grammar veteran…
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court Chief Justice Bhushan Gavai visited his old school, Chikitsak Samuh High School in Girgaon, Mumbai, on Sunday. He studied there from standards 3 to 7 in Marathi medium. The CJI praised his teachers for shaping him, crediting the debating skills he honed there and the values of equality and social benevolence…
It was April 20, 1975. Excitement filled Durbar Hall at Raj Bhavan, the governor’s majestic, sea-facing residence in South Mumbai. A galaxy of stars from the city’s literary firmament descended to witness a momentous event: the inauguration of the Maharashtra State Urdu Academy.“Marathi is my mother tongue. It runs in my veins. But I also…
