Mumbai: A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi made sensitive disclosures over voter lists in the Lok Sabha elections in Parliament, Congress workers, led by state party president Harshadwardhan Sapkal, on Friday staged massive demonstrations in central Mumbai over the failure of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take corrective measures.Congress workers resorted to…
The high priests of sound are about to descend upon the city. As a counterpoint to the deafening outdoor celebrations of the festive season, they will summon the hushed attendance of the cognoscenti indoors. On Tuesday, Aug 12, Andrew Litton, the music director of the New York City Ballet, will open the 35th season of…
Navi Mumbai: A 32-year-old woman teacher at a pre-primary school in Nerul has been booked by Nerul police for allegedly slapping a 4-year-old boy student in the classroom ‘for not studying’.Brahmanand Naikwadi, senior inspector of Nerul said the accused teacher has been booked under relevant sections of BNS for voluntarily causing hurt along with Juvenile…
MUMBAI: While Raksha Bandhan will be celebrated on Saturday, the handmade and eco-friendly rakhis produced by women participants of Tata Power’s flagship women empowerment programme Anokha Dhaga have garnered significant attention. These rakhis, developed under the initiative by the company that powers Mumbai, serve not only as festive ornaments but also as symbols of sustainable…
MUMBAI : While Raksha Bandhan will be celebrated on Saturday, the handmade and eco-friendly rakhis produced by women participants of Tata Power’s flagship women empowerment programme Anokha Dhaga have garnered significant attention. These rakhis, developed under the initiative by the company that powers Mumbai, serve not only as festive ornaments but also as symbols of…
Mumbai: A day after the Information and Broadcasting ministry suspended the Censor certificate granted to Marathi film ‘Khalid Ka Shivaji’ and stopped its release for a month, its director Raj Pritam More told TOI he was “saddened and disappointed” that the govt was “disowning” a film it had submitted to the Cannes Film Festival this…
Kalyan/Navi Mumbai: In back-to-back incidents highlighting tensions over the Marathi versus non-Marathi divide in the state, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers in Kalyan assaulted an idli vendor over alleged derogatory remarks about Marathi-speaking people, while a video from a Mumbai local train showed two women locked in a heated argument over the language.The Kalyan incident…
Mumbai: A lawyer was duped of Rs 6 lakh in a matrimonial fraud by a man posing as a “doctor working in Gaza.” The Borivli Police have registered an FIR and are probing further.In July, the complainant started an account on a matrimonial portal. She noticed the profile of a doctor named Mohit and sent…
Mumbai: Facing a severe shortage of both teaching and non-teaching staff, some state universities have started scrapping the lien period previously extended to employees seeking better career opportunities. In the city, both Mumbai University and SNDT Women’s University recently withdrew this benefit. This move comes despite a state govt directive from last year that increased…
Kolhapur: The NCERT has set up a committee of experts from educational institutions, led by its curriculum department head Ranjana Arora, to examine the content of CBSE textbooks. This comes in the backdrop of the criticism it is facing from descendants of Rajasthan royal families over a map in the Class 8 social science book…
