Mumbai: The state govt has decided to review and regulate the names of schools across Maharashtra that are misleading or misrepresent information. The decision follows observations by the school education department that several institutions are using terms such as ‘international’ and ‘global’ in their names without offering an international curriculum, thereby creating confusion among parents,…
NEW DELHI: Dense fog enveloped Delhi and the NCR on Saturday, significantly reducing visibility across key areas on Saturday. Key roads and residential neighborhoods were shrouded in fog, with visuals showing dense mist covering wide areas of the national capital.The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) reading stood at 380 at around 7 am, falling into…
Pune: Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) officials on Friday visited the site of an upcoming residential and commercial project in Baner to evaluate additional steps to keep the dust and noise level within the prescribed limit, as directed on Dec 8 by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Pune bench.MPCB’s Pune sub regional officer Kartikeya Langote…
Court Gives A Month’s Time To Comply CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: A division bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Hiten Venegavkar of the Bombay high court directed the Nanded district collector on Dec 12 to initiate action within one month in a case of alleged encroachment on 23 acres of govt land attached to the Nanded Sikh…
NEW DELHI: Dense fog enveloped Delhi and the NCR on Saturday, significantly reducing visibility across key areas on Saturday, Key roads and residential neighborhoods were shrouded in fog, with visuals showing dense mist covering wide areas of the national capital.The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) reading stood at 380 at around 7 am, falling into…
Pune: Hours after leopard sightings set off an alarm in Keshavnagar on Thursday, the animal was spotted once again early on Friday in Kumbharwada near a Shiva temple. CCTV footage captured the leopard around 4.55am near a private Aadhaar centre, following which forest and police teams were alerted. Forest officials confirmed that the sighting was…
From Pandharpur’s pilgrimage trails to the former US president’s 2025 playlist, a 13th-century Marathi prayer for universal brotherhood has leapt across time and tides to find a place in Barack Obama’s annual music recommendations.Amid high-energy international pop, hip-hop, and Afrobeats — from Lady Gaga and Blackpink to Kendrick Lamar and Burna Boy — Obama’s list…
New Delhi: The city remains among India’s high-burden dengue areas, with 3,746 cases and two deaths reported so far this year, even as govt data show that cases across India increased more than five times over the past five years.Figures placed by Union health ministry before Rajya Sabha show dengue cases in the country climbed…
Pune: For the first time in 17 years, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) has increased service charges in Hinjewadi, Talegaon, and Chakan industrial areas.The revision is aimed at funding massive infrastructure upgrades across these critical industrial hubs. Under the revised rates, an industrial unit with a land allotment of 500 square metres would see charges…
Thane: A 57-year-old taxi driver was convicted for procuring a minor girl but acquitted of rape and aggravated sexual assault charges by the Additional Sessions Court in a case that kept him in custody for nearly four years.The court sentenced the man to the period already undergone in jail and imposed a fine of Rs…
