ULHASNAGAR: On the occasion of World Environment Day today, the first Waste Management Bio Gas Plant in Ulhasnagar city was unveiled by the city’s BJP MLA, Kumar Ailani, and BJP Ulhasnagar District President, Rajesh Vadhrya.This bio gas plant was built by the developer in a private Regency Antilia complex. The waste from hundreds of flat…
MUMBAI: Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Interior and Chairman of the Supreme Haj Committee, reportedly attended the Ministry of Interior’s annual ceremony of the security forces participating in the Haj season. Lakhs of Muslim pilgrims from across the world are currently in Saudi Arabia for the annual Haj being currently…
MUMBAI: A 27-year-old man died after his neck got entangled in an iron fence while attempting to alight from a train on the wrong side at Mumbai Central station on Wednesday morning.The incident took place around 9.44am at Platform No. 4. The deceased, identified through his Aadhaar card as Dhila Rajesh Hamira Bhai, was found…
NEW DELHI: A row has erupted in Mumbai over the naming of three newly hatched penguin chicks at the city’s Byculla zoo with BJP leaders demanding they be given Marathi names instead of English ones. The protest, led by BJP functionary Nitin Bankar from the Byculla assembly constituency, took place outside the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale…
MUMBAI: In a move poised to reshape the global gem trade, the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has announced it will no longer apply the 4Cs grading system-cut, colour, clarity, and carat weight-to laboratory-grown diamonds. Instead, beginning from later this year, GIA will issue simplified descriptors for such stones-broadly classifying them as ‘premium’ or ‘standard’-…
Mumbai: Minority colleges in the city are preparing to move court against the “sudden” implementation of social reservations such as SC/ST and OBC quotas for their non-minority seats. The state govt is in the process of releasing the provisional merit list for the ongoing first-year junior college (FYJC) admissions on Thursday.While the state govt did…
Mumbai: State health officials on Wednesday reported two more Covid-linked deaths in MMR, taking the region’s fatality count to seven. While a 76-year-old cancer patient from Dombivli who had tested positive for Covid died during treatment on Wednesday, a Navi Mumbai resident who had diabetes, hypertension and a history of stroke died on June 2.Officials…
Mumbai: Devesh Bhaiya, All India Rank 8 this year in the fiercely contested JEE Advanced, has decided to turn his back on India’s elite engineering institutions and head for MIT instead.He won’t be alone. Ved Lahoti, last year’s Rank 1 and the candidate who has scored the highest in the entrance exam (352/360) in recent…
Mumbai: The three-lane Mumbai-bound arm of the new Thane creek bridge at Vashi will be commissioned by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and his two deputies, Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar, on Thursday at 1 pm through an online ceremony from Igatpuri, where they will throw open the 76 km Bhiwandi-Igatpuri stretch of the Mumbai-Nagpur super…
Mumbai: A special court Monday closed criminal proceedings against developer Niranjan Hiranandani and others in the alleged Rs 30,000 crore Powai Area Development Scheme (PADS) land scam case. The judge observed that prosecuting the accused would not be in keeping with justice and that there was no prima facie case after the state Anti-Corruption Bureau…
