MUMBAI: After Ashura ,10th of Moharram, the day of processions, prayers and public mourning for the martyrs of Karbala ended on Friday, hundreds of mourners in the city reached Rahmatabad, the sprawling Shia graveyard in Mazgaon in the evening.They assembled there to mark Shaam-e-Gharibaan (evening of the poor and oppressed) majlis or congregation to collectively…
Navi Mumbai: Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) commissioner Kailas Shinde presented the pilot model of the corporation’s Textile Reprocessing Facility (TRF), one of its kind in the country, at the National Summit on Textiles for Global Markets in New Delhi on Thursday. The presentation was made during a special session on Quality, Sustainability, Certification and…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only MUMBAI: The Maharashtra State Council of Examinations (MSCE) has postponed the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) 2026, which was scheduled to be held on Sunday, following a suspected question paper leak from Bhiwandi.According to an official notification issued by MSCE, the decision was taken after the council received confidential information…
Navi Mumbai: Around 5,000 saplings were planted at Birsa Munda Udyan, Warli Pada, in the TTC-MIDC area, Rabale. The state forest minister, Ganesh Naik, joined the plantation drive aimed to take one step towards a greener tomorrow. The former mayor, Sudhakar Sonawane, took the initiative as part of starting the Tree Plantation Drive 2026 in…
Navi Mumbai: The Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) approved a Rs 1,000 crore proposal to raise the height of Dehrang Dam by 20 metres, which will increase its storage capacity to 38 million cubic metres.Dehrang Dam, located at the foothills of Matheran, supplies water to the Panvel township.Currently, Panvel receives about 230 MLD of water,…
Photos of late Ajit Pawar and NCP chief Sunetra Pawar were found missing from a poster of party’s event in Raigad attended by state NCP chief Sunil Tatkare recently Mumbai: The NCP, which is a constituent of the Mahayuti government, has distanced itself from the remarks of its MLA Sana Malik on the issue of…
Mumbai Fire Brigade has made history by appointing Pallavi Patil, 29, as its first female driver-cum-operator. MUMBAI: When you see a fire engine racing through Mumbai’s crowded streets with its sirens blaring next time, it could have a trailblazer at the wheel. On June 18, Mumbai Fire Brigade appointed Pallavi Patil, 29, as its first-ever…
Train murder victim Mayank Lohar’s funeral was carried out on Friday Mumbai: Friends, relatives and neighbours gathered in large numbers at Virar on Friday to bid farewell to Mayank Lohar, the 21-year-old who was brutally murdered in a local train compartment by a co-traveller following an altercation on Tuesday night. Lohar’s parents and siblings were…
21-year-old Mayank Lohar was killed by a co-traveller on a local train over a trivial dispute on keeping the compartment door shut. His family has demanded the strictest punishment possible for the perpetrator Mumbai: “I had never seen such a ghastly crime and so much blood before… It haunts me.” TOI spoke to an eyewitness…
Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation disconnected the water supply and sewage connection of Amoli Co-Operative Housing Society in Sector 30, Sanpada, Navi Mumbai, after the building was declared a dangerous structure under the C-1 category. The building was declared dangerous in 2019-20 by the Municipal Corporation committee under category C-1 (highly dangerous, uninhabitable,…
