V.NarayanMumbai: A 41-year-old Lieutenant Colonel from the Indian Army fell victim to a cyber fraud, losing Rs 1.28 lakh while attempting to publish his thesis papers on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for his PhD. The officer, stationed in Delhi with family residing in Andheri, was at his Mumbai residence when he searched for journal publication websites….
Mumbai: The number of severely malnourished (SAM) children in Maharashtra has significantly declined over the last two years from 80,248 in 2023 to 29,107 in 2025.Similarly, the number of moderately malnourished (MAM) children declined from 2.12 lakh or 5.09% to 1.49 lakh or 3.11% over the same period.Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis attributed the achievement to…
Mumbai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested Sneh Dipakbhai Kakadiya, a Gujarat-based trader, for allegedly masterminding a Rs 44 crore customs duty evasion racket through under-invoicing of inshell walnut imports from Chile. Kakadiya, who was charged under various sections of the Customs Act, in partnership with his father Dipak Kakadiya, operated multiple firms, including…
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow inaugurated its academic year by welcoming 643 students into its flagship Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), Post Graduate Programme in Agribusiness Management (PGP-ABM), Post Graduate Programme in Sustainable Management (PGP-SM), and the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme. The commencement was marked by a comprehensive three-day induction…
By Shourya AvankhedkarMUMBAI: Four days after a cancer-afflicted woman was found on a street in Aarey Colony, the police on Wednesday arrested her grandson, her elderly brother-in-law, and an autorickshaw driver for allegedly abandoning her and endangering her life and safety. Police said her grandson, Sagar Shewale (33), was “fed up” of taking care of…
MUMBAI: Transport associations have announced that despite the state’s decision to disable the photo-uploading feature in the MahaTrafficApp following complaints of misuse, formal implementation is still pending. They have declared an indefinite strike starting from midnight on July 1, with tourist bus operators joining in—likely impacting goods transportation and inter-city bus services in and out…
NEW DELHI: When Zohran Mamdani announced his mayoral bid last October, few New Yorkers outside political circles had heard his name. Now, the 33-year-old state lawmaker is emerging as a potential frontrunner to lead America’s largest city—and could soon become its youngest mayor in generations and the first Muslim and Indian American to hold the…
MUMBAI: A 36-year-old woman was cheated of Rs 93000 while trying to book flight tickets online for her husband and six of his friends. Malad Police have registered an FIR and are probing further.The complainant works at a restobar in Malad while her husband works in Dubai. She regularly books flight tickets for him whenever…
MUMBAI: Amid reports that the Shiv Sena (UBT) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) could form an alliance for the BMC polls, netas from both parties came together against a private airline over alleged anti-worker practices. This added fuel to speculation of a potential reunion between the estranged Thackeray cousins. Sena (UBT) MP Arvind Sawant and…
MUMBAI: Your city has a big heart. A day after TOI published a photograph of an 8-year-old schoolgirl, Tanushka Raj Tate, studying outside her makeshift shelter on a footpath at Dadar, a benefactor funded the child’s education up to class 12. The donor, who did not wish to be identified, has issued a cheque of…
