Mumbai: For the police, it was a seemingly straightforward elopement case where the charge of kidnapping was attracted as it involved a 13-year-old girl from Mumbai Central. They never imagined it would evolve into a six-month cross-country pursuit as the 19-year-old man ditched his and the girl’s mobile phones and kept moving from place to…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Tuesday refused to interfere with the state govt’s decision to set up a memorial for late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray at the mayor’s bungalow in Shivaji Park.“We do not find that any valid ground of challenge is made out…” said Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sandeep Marne,…
Mumbai: With the monsoon picking up, the city reported 884 malaria cases last month, nearly double of June 2024’s 443 cases, shows BMC’s data. Chikungunya saw a concerning jump—from zero to 21 cases in the same period.According to the BMC data, Mumbai recorded 105 cases of dengue and 936 of gastroenteritis last month. Doctors said…
Kolapur: Maharashtra’s school education improved in 2023-24 compared to the previous year, according to the Union ministry of education’s Performance Grading Index (PGI) report for 2023-24. Kolhapur district claimed the top spot in Maharashtra in learning outcomes in the Centre’s PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan report released on Tuesday and it also secured the first rank among…
Mumbai: The MNS on Tuesday released a poster with names of both Uddhav and Raj Thackeray as hosts of the July 5 “victory rally” to be held at the NSCI Dome in Worli to celebrate the scrapping of the government resolutions (GRs) making Hindi the third language to be taught in state schools from Class…
Mumbai: Bombay high court has directed Yes Bank Ltd to pay Rs 50,000 in compensation to a private company for delay in opening its bank account after Supreme Court’s Sept 2018 judgment that Aadhaar is not a mandatory requirement for opening bank accounts.“The bank account was ultimately opened in Jan 2019. Therefore, for a period…
Pune: The govt-appointed committee to define the policy for implementing the three-language formula in schools across the state under educationist Narendra Jadhav has three months to submit its report.A govt notification issued on June 30 officially announced the cancellation of the controversial GR issued on April 16 regarding the introduction of Hindi from Class 1,…
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday announced the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by a woman IPS officer to investigate the sexual harassment case in Beed. “Considering the sensitivity of the case and the possibility of the harassment of more girls by the accused, the state has decided to form the…
Thane: A case has been registered against a 40-year-old man who allegedly sexually harassed a woman and threatened her at gunpoint in Navi Mumbai, police said on Tuesday. Based on a complaint, the Taloja police on Saturday registered an FIR under sections 75 (sexual harassment) and 351(2) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against…
Mumbai: Criticising senior bureaucrats for skipping key discussions in the assembly related to their own departments, BJP MLA Sudhir Mungantiwar on Tuesday said that if secretaries do not attend even after being summoned, they should be tied up and brought to the legislature like it was done in the British Parliament.Panel Speaker Chetan Tupe mentioned…
