Mumbai: The Maharashtra government will take over the historical India House in London, once the abode of freedom fighters, including Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, and preserve it as a memorial, state cultural affairs minister Ashish Shelar said on Wednesday.He said Indian residents in London had drawn the state’s attention to the importance of the property during…
Pune: Dr Rajani Panchang, assistant professor in the department of environmental science of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), was awarded the Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship for academic and professional excellence 2025.The fellowship, administered by the United States–India Educational Foundation (USIEF), supports Indian researchers working on climate-related studies in America for 8 to 12 months. Panchang will…
NEW DELHI: The strategically significant Mudh-Nyoma airbase in Ladakh was on Wednesday operationalised with Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal A P Singh landing at the base on board a C-130J transport aircraft. The airbase is located at a height of around 13,000 feet and is about 25 km from the Line of Actual…
TIFR mathematician Sabyasachi Mukherjee has received two major science awards MUMBAI: Within a span of just two weeks, 39-year-old Sabyasachi Mukherjee, an associate professor from the TIFR’s School of Mathematics, has been honoured with two of India’s most prestigious recognitions in science – the Vigyan Yuva Puraskar in the last week of Oct and the…
Pune: The long-pending recruitment for dean positions in four major faculties of SPPU has finally moved forward, after these crucial posts remained vacant for nearly three years. Now, the varsity administration has issued a fresh advertisement for the positions of faculty of dean and director, board of innovation, dean of research and dean of incubation….
Officials are now piecing together those missing 10 days that may hold the key to how the 29-year-old doctor prepared for the deadly blast. FARIDABAD: For 10 days after the arrest of his close associate Dr Muzammil Ganaie, the trail of Dr Umar Un Nabi — the man now identified as the Red Fort bomber…
A 38-year-old man tragically died after his scooter collided with a JCB machine illegally parked on a no-parking zone MUMBAI: A 38-year-old man died after his scooter collided with a JCB machine illegally parked on a no-parking stretch along Zakaria Bunder Road in Sewri in the early hours of 8 November. Police have registered a…
Pune: A special court in the city has rejected the second bail plea of five accused in a case of murder & Rs2 crore extortion bid on a govt contractor. The Pune Rural police have invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) provisions in the case. Special judge (MCOCA) SR Salunkhe, while…
NEW DELHI: Nisar Ul Hassan, a doctor dismissed by J&K lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha in November 2023 from Srinagar’s SHMS Hospital over alleged terror links, has emerged as a key suspect in the probe into the JeM module behind Monday’s Delhi car blast. The J&K CID had described Hassan as a “potential time-bomb” that could…
MUMBAI: Fatalities on Samruddhi Mahamarg rose by 16% between Jan and Sep compared to the same period last year, but fell by 29% on Mumbai-Pune Expressway. Latest transport department data, released on Wednesday, showed fatalities on the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi go up from 92 to 107, and on Expressway fall from 72 to 51. Why the…
