Thane: The academic year of thousands of students from 19 authorised schools in Diva could be affected if their managements go ahead with their plans to indefinitely shut their schools starting July 1 to protest the alleged civic inaction on illegal schools.There are 81 illegal schools operating in Thane and its suburbs, with around 65…
Navi Mumbai: A day after a newborn was found abandoned on a street outside an oprhanage in Panvel, the biological parents were traced on Sunday. The police identified the child’s father as a 23-year-old Bhiwandi resident, Aman Kondkar, an engineer who is currently unemployed. He told the police that he was in a relationship with…
Mumbai: A sessions court refused to grant interim relief from arrest to former CEO of the New India Co-operative Bank Ltd, Abhimanyu Bhoan, in the bank scam case. The city’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) had registered a case of cheating and criminal breach of trust against Percept Ltd founder-director Harinder Pal Singh, New India Co-operative…
Mumbai: The monopoly of state power utility MSEDCL in Mulund-Bhandup, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Kalyan, Vasai, and other parts of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) faces potential competition. Besides Tata Power’s recent parallel distribution licence application, both Adani Electricity Navi Mumbai Ltd (AENML) and Torrent Power await a public hearing at MERC on July 22 for…
Mumbai: Sixty-three-year-old former SIMI activist Saqib Nachan, who was arrested by NIA in the ISIS Maharashtra module case, died on Saturday morning while receiving treatment at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi. He was under treatment for six days following a brain haemorrhage.Nachan, convicted twice earlier in terror cases, was arrested in Dec 2023 for allegedly running…
Sami Kishore Masya’s tin-roofed tenement is so dark in the sunny afternoon that a volunteer has to turn on a mobile torch to converse with her. Sami speaks haltingly in Marathi. “My husband was our main breadwinner. Survival is hard as there are many to feed (five children, her mother, and herself) and income is…
Almost every Saturday since he was 10, Akash Balmiki would bunk school to chase a ball that looked like a dinosaur egg. “My parents were mad at me,” he recalls. Balmiki discovered rugby in 2007 when a friend introduced him to Khelo Rugby, a free training camp for underprivileged kids. “But when I told my…
Pune: Amid the call for a joint protest march by the Thackeray cousins on July 5 against the state govt over the alleged “imposition” of the Hindi language from Class 1, Mahayuti partner, deputy CM and NCP chief Ajit Pawar on Saturday said that he is also not in favour of making Hindi compulsory from…
File Photo (Vivek Bhimanwar) Mumbai: Transport Commissioner Vivek Bhimanwar on Saturday issued termination notices to 22 border check posts in the state. This indicates that the border check posts, which are allegedly a hub for malpractices, are finally being abolished in Maharashtra.The decision was in line with the central govt directives and the implementation of…
MUMBAI: Transport minister Pratap Sarnaik on Saturday launched the 45HP (horse power) electric tractor for farmers in Maharashtra. He said it will be eco-friendly and economical, and significantly transform the agricultural sector. The first such e-tractor — which Sarnaik claimed is the first of its kind in the country — was registered at the Thane…
