Pune: MSRDC wants to transform the Mumbai-Pune Expressway into a 10-lane superhighway to tide over traffic snarls and cater to the future demands of vehicular movement along the corridor, one of the busiest in the country.“This is an upgrade from our earlier proposal to make the expressway an eight-lane facility. The latest upgrade will cost…
Mumbai: The world of medical research is battling its own version of cyber frauds: predatory or ‘pseudo’ journals, deceptive publications that claim to be scholarly but rarely follow ethical publishing practices and seek hefty payment from authors.On Friday, Dr Himmatrao Bawaskar (75), a Mahad-based physician who won a Padma Shri in 2022 and is known…
MUMBAI: Noting that a person running an elevator company would surely be “rolling in money”, a sessions court increased the compensation for a domestic violence survivor from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 1 crore. The judge said a substantial enhancement was needed to compensate for the 20 years of torture, humiliation and economic abuse the…
Vasai: The accident site where former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry lost his life will now be marked as a ‘go-slow and no-overtaking zone’ — measures being proposed only after the completion of a Rs600 crore white-topping project on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad National Highway (NH48).Ironically, this high-risk stretch — known to locals as a “black spot”…
Mumbai: Observing that if this court exercises discretion in favour of applicant it will give a wrong message to society, a sessions court on Monday rejected the bail plea of advocate Vinaykumar Khatu, who is accused of defrauding a Delhi-based 74-year-old woman, a client, of Rs 2.57 crore by allegedly presenting her with forged orders…
Mumbai: In what it said was a peculiar case of a dispute arising over a reimbursement claim by a central govt employee for a “heart transplant” conducted at a private hospital, the Bombay high court on Friday held that the affected man, a pensioner, was entitled to decide on a private hospital for the procedure…
Mumbai: Skill-integrated BA, B Com, and B Sc courses are likely to be rolled out by Mumbai University from the next academic year, 2026-27. With interest in traditional courses in the city declining, as seen in this year’s degree college admission cut-offs, skill-integrated courses may offer a meaningful shift. The skill-integrated courses, a scheme announced…
Mumbai: The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has asked its pro-vice-chancellor Prof Shankar Das to step down. While the official order only mentioned that he is relieved from the charge with immediate effect “upon the approval of the competent authority,” sources claimed there were allegations of financial misappropriation and irregularities in appointments of project…
Mumbai: An FIR has been filed against filmmaker-writer Manish Gupta for allegedly attacking his driver with a kitchen knife. Gupta had fired the driver on May 30, and the confrontation occurred after Gupta rehired the driver four days later, police said. According to Versova police, who filed the case on Friday, initial enquiries indicate the…
NAVI MUMBAI: Sanpada police have arrested eight accused from Bengaluru for kidnapping-cum-dacoity of an Angadia, whom they had looted of Rs 32 lakh cash, when he had gone to deposit the cash at an ATM in Juinagar on May 31 morning.Devidas Kathale, senior inspector of Sanpada informed that, six accused, including one posing as a…
