MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) union leader Nitin Nandgaonkar on Friday said the ongoing BEST workers’ agitation reflects growing unity among employees, blaming the undertaking and the government for the crisis.“BEST failed to initiate dialogue and instead approached the court. As per directives, they should have invited us for discussions. The contempt lies with BEST,” he…
Mumbai University’s QS World University Rankings 2027 performance has seen a sharp decline in overall standing, slipping from the 664th position last year to the 901-950 band this year – its lowest ranking in four years.However, the university has delivered a striking contrast in the employment outcomes indicator, where it has surged 70 places to…
MUMBAI: For nearly four decades, physicists across the world have relied on a deceptively simple idea proposed by an Indian scientist to explain one of the strangest behaviours ever observed in the quantum world. This week, that insight earned Prof. Jainendra K. Jain one of the highest honours in science.On June 18, at a ceremony…
The student has sought the relief to prepare and sit for the NEET exam scheduled for June 21. (Representational Photo) MUMBAI: A special Pocso court on Wednesday granted temporary bail to an 18-year-old student currently held in judicial custody at Taloja Central Prison, allowing him to appear for the upcoming NEET re-examination. The student, who…
Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde MUMBAI: As if a Shiv Sena claim that at least 25 corporators from the Shiv Sena (UBT) were ready to cross over was not bad enough, Uddhav Thackeray’s party lost a corporator, Deepak Sawant, to disqualification on Thursday.On a day that it became clear that six Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs…
Mumbai: The Andheri Police registered a case against a youth, Abhinandan Sule, for trespassing on Metro tracks and causing a delay in services, after metro services between Dahisar and Versova were suspended for 17 minutes.The complainant, a security guard at the Metro One Andheri station, was on duty on Wednesday afternoon when he received a…
Mumbai: The combined water stock in the seven lakes catering to Mumbai dropped below 10% on Thursday. Civic officials said an additional 10% cut may be imposed in the first week of July, if rainfall doesn’t pick pace in the last week of June and reservoir levels fail to improve.With the BMC already imposing a…
Mumbai: The customs department has arrested the director of a pharmaceutical company and a broking firm director for allegedly attempting to export a controlled substance to the Czech Republic without a mandatory no objection certificate, or NOC, from narcotics authorities. The arrested were identified as Venkat Shinde, director of Veeprho Laboratories Private Limited, and Chandrashekhar…
Mumbai: An FIR was registered against the principals of 14 schools in Malwani by the local police after a complaint was given by the BMC’s private primary schools department that the institutions were illegal.As per the complaint, the BMC found a total of 164 primary schools in Mumbai in 2025-26 that were illegal. Of these,…
Navi Mumbai: In a combing operation by the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Navi Mumbai crime branch in various nodes across Navi Mumbai Thursday, as many as nine African nationals, including six men and three women, were detained for overstaying their visas and violating the Passports Act and Foreigners Act, apart from already being booked in…
