File pic of Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis Mumbai: “Hindus are naive and gullible, but they are not stupid. If someone is looting temples by taking advantage of our Hindutva, no Hindu will forgive them now,” said Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday evening as he kicked…
Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s (NMMC) Property Tax Department received an unprecedented response from citizens in its property tax collection campaign for the financial year 2026-27, collecting Rs 434.02 crore in the first quarter from April to June 2026, a record in the corporation’s history, said the civic officials. Technology-based administrative work played…
Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai crime branch Unit 1 arrested two men accused of a house-break theft at a locked apartment in Bonkode on June 7, where they decamped with gold ornaments worth Rs 15 lakh along with Rs 40,000 cash stolen from the neighbouring apartment. The arrested duo are both habitual offenders.ACP (crime) Prerana…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a health alert against three skin-lightening creams, including one allegedly manufactured in Pakistan, after laboratory tests found they contained mercury and lead far above the permissible limits, making them unsafe for use.An FDA release, issued on Saturday evening, ordered an immediate stop to the use,…
Mumbai: The delayed, fiercely-debated and much-litigated elections to the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, one of the city’s premier institutions of research and scholarship, finally took place on Saturday with former BJP Rajya Sabha member Vinay Sahasrabuddhe of the ‘Asiatic Tomorrow’ panel voted in as president and his group sweeping all the other 18 posts. The…
Bombay high court slapped a Rs 1 lakh penalty on a Kalyan college for admitting a student to a BMS course despite his ineligibility and then informing him late (Representative image) MUMBAI: Bombay high court has imposed costs of Rs 1 lakh on a college for belatedly informing a student last February, of his ineligibility…
This marks the city’s second fatal tree-fall incident in under a week, following a similar tragedy in Chembur. MUMBAI: A 63-year-old man died after a tree collapsed on a shop near BMC Hindi school, Gomes Gown Building, Naupada, Kamini Kurla (West) on Sunday amid heavy rainfall. This marked the city’s second fatal tree-fall incident in…
Mumbai’s daily commute has become a perilous journey, marked by recent tragedies including a fatal manhole fall, a schoolboy’s death from a falling tree, and violent attacks on trains. MUMBAI: The daily commute is tiring for most Mumbaikars as they negotiate crowds, delays and traffic snarls. But incidents over the last fortnight, an open manhole…
Researchers from IIT Bombay and the ICMR-National Institute for Research on Women’s Health (NIRWoH) have developed an indigenous placenta-on-chip platform that mimics the human placenta in the laboratory. MUMBAI: In a breakthrough that could make medicines safer for pregnant women while reducing animal testing, researchers from IIT Bombay and the ICMR-National Institute for Research on…
Visitors tread through light at an immersive installation in Second Nature Outside, Mumbai’s monsoon is doing what it does best… turning the city into an immersive installation of its own. Inside somewhere, visitors wander through forests of digital flowers, chase bubbles that pop into light, and find their own shadows swallowed and multiplied by the…
