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Mumbai: Mumbai: Following repeated demands from concerned citizens and environmentalists, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) allotted the civil work on diverting the sewer water flow from Powai Lake and floated a tender for setting up a treatment plant near the site at a cost of over Rs 71 crore.Members of the BMC-appointed Advanced Locality Management…
Mumbai: Women’s rights activist Varsha Deshpande, founder of the Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal of India, has won the 2025 United Nations Population Award in the individual category. Deshpande was set to receive the award at the UN’s New York headquarters on Friday. The only two earlier Indian recipients of the award in this category have…
Nagpur: Around 300 junior colleges in the state did not see a single enrolment from students in the first round of admissions. Yet, money for salaries running into crores streams into these colleges from govt coffers.This has left many wondering whether another scam has been unearthed where students would have been registered earlier “on paper”…
According to AQI.in, this weather data represents the beginning of a significant seasonal shift in Mumbai’s climate pattern.Mumbai is experiencing a typical monsoon day on July 12, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 27.1°C and 29.6°C, accompanied by a 97% chance of rain and light winds at 22 kph. The weather forecast indicates cloudy conditions with…
MUMBAI: In a landmark moment for Maharashtra, 12 forts associated with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj were inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage List during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris Friday. “The ‘Maratha Military Landscapes’ represent extraordinary fortification and military systems envisioned by the Maratha rulers,” says the citation. While 11 on…
MUMBAI: If the pilots didn’t cut off the fuel, then how did the fuel supply to both engines cut off during the most crucial phase of flight? Was it a technical problem with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner?The 15-page preliminary report released by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the Air India AI-171 crash, which…
A preliminary report on the Air India flight AI-171 crash that killed 270 reveals a chilling detail: fuel supply to both engines cut off shortly after takeoff. Pilots denied responsibility, raising questions about technical malfunction or deliberate action. MUMBAI: About three seconds after Air India flight AI-171 lifted off Ahmedabad runway on June 12, the…
MUMBAI: The state government took a step back on its decision to allow homeopaths to prescribe modern medicine by setting up a 7-member committee that will decide on the matter within two months. Interestingly, neither the homeopaths nor doctors with the Indian Medical Association (IMA) have said they will accept the committee’s decision if it…
Mumbai: Thousands from the Christian community participated in a daylong sit-in at Azad Maidan Friday, protesting threats issued by the BJP MLA from Sangli, Gopichand Padalkar. The MLA in a public speech on June 17 had allegedly offered a bounty ranging from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 11 lakh for acts of violence against Christian…
Mumbai: After a probe report exposed corruption running into crores through a bogus employee racket at the Shani Shingnapur temple in Ahilyanagar, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has directed that FIRs be filed against the shrine’s staff and management.The probe found the temple had 2,447 bogus employees whose “salaries” were being pocketed by existing staff and…
