MUMBAI: On a day marked by quiet revolutions and roaring applause, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras held its Convocation and Certificate Distribution Ceremony for the BS Degree programmes on 8 June 2025—a moment that didn’t just honour graduates but redefined who gets to be called one.In an auditorium humming with possibility, 867 students from…
MUMBAI: It begins with a scene we’ve seen too many times before. A quiet room, a pool of blood, a flashlight beam slicing through shadows, and the sharp gaze of a forensic scientist reading stories left behind. But beyond the grim glamour of prime-time crime shows, there lies a quieter marvel—one that unfolds not in…
MUMBAI: A 48-year-old man succumbed to his injuries after being hospitalized for more than a week after he was injured when a unknown speeding vehicle hit his vehicle in the early hours of June 2nd on the Eastern Express Highway in Vikhroli East.The deceased, Charan Singh Tejendrasingh Kukreja, a resident of Nalasopara in Palghar district,…
MUMBAI: We often imagine cells as tiny chemists—receiving signals, processing instructions, and producing proteins in a flurry of biochemical activity. But what if they were also quiet engineers, silently listening to the architecture around them, tuning in to tensions that stretch and pull, feeling their way into place?A new study from researchers at the Indian…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Tuesday questioned state govt on what basis had it issued the govt resolution (GR) including SC, ST and OBC reservations for FYJC admission in minority institutions in the state. “Justify your stand,” said Justices Makarand Karnik and Nitin Borkar and posted the hearing on Wednesday.They heard a petition by Solapur’s…
MUMBAI: Central Railway on Tuesday set up a five-member committee of senior officials to investigate the sequence of events leading to the Mumbra tragedy. The probe panel includes the senior divisional security commissioner, senior divisional mechanical engineer, senior divisional electrical engineer, senior divisional engineer, and the senior divisional operations manager. CR’s chief public relations officer…
Thane: A day after the Mumbra tragedy and after railways said they would introduce more AC and non-AC locals with closed doors, a number of angry passengers forcibly entered an AC local at 9.03 am at Dombivli railway station following the cancellation of their regular 8.59 am train. Overcrowding of the AC train resulted in…
Mumbai: Seven years after Central Railway (CR) proposed a Rs 900-crore plan to convert all 12-car rakes to 15-car ones on its fast corridor, the project remains largely unimplemented—even as overcrowding and fatal accidents persist on the Thane–Kalyan–Karjat/Kasara stretch.The push for longer trains gained urgency in 2015 when the Railway Board directed both CR and…
Mumbai: Nearly a decade after a fire at Hotel City Kinara, Kurla West, claimed 8 lives, Bombay HC Tuesday ordered BMC to pay 50 lakh each compensation to their families, nailing it for gross negligence in discharge of its duties.Justices Burgess Colabawalla and Firdosh Pooniwalla said Kinara was granted an eating housing license without it…
Mumbai: Construction of 10,000 rehab flats in up to 30-storey buildings is being undertaken under phase 1 of Dharavi redevelopment project (DRP) on railway land in Mahim and will be ready in the next three years, said project CEO SVR Srinivas.The 47.5-acre railway land is part of Dharavi notified area. DRP has physical possession of…
