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MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) workers staged a protest outside the Congress’ Tilak Bhavan headquarters in Mumbai on Wednesday, dousing an effigy of Maharashtra Congress chief Harshvardhan Sapkal with a dark liquid and raising slogans over his alleged “gungi gudiya” (mute doll) remark against deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar.Visuals from the protest showed party workers…

The Bombay High Court ordered social media intermediaries to remove vile and abusive online content. MUMBAI: Observing that some of the content was “vile’’ “abusive’’ and “certainly defamatory’’, Bombay high court on Wednesday granted urgent interim relief to Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and directed Social Media intermediaries to remove posts including videos that linked…

Bombay high court ordered Meta and X Corp to remove defamatory content MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed social media giants Meta and X Corp to immediately take down all content, including Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated material, allegedly defamatory towards Union minister Nitin Gadkari regarding the government’s ethanol-blended petrol policy.Sandeep S Ladda, the advocate…

A civil contractor and a vegetable vendor were injured in knife attacks near the BMC F-North Ward office. MUMBAI: A dispute allegedly linked to a BMC contract tender turned violent in Matunga on Monday, with two separate complaints registered after a civil contractor and a vegetable vendor were injured in knife attacks near the rear…

A car fell about twenty-five feet down a parking lift shaft. MUMBAI: A car, with the valet attendant seated inside, tum-bled about 25 feet down a parking lift shaft at a housing society in Charkop Sector 3, Kandivli West, around 9.30 pm on Monday. The incident occurred at the ground-plus-21-storey Horizon Gold building near Ganesh…

The Nationalist Congress Party (SP) dissolved all spokesperson appointments immediately. MUMBAI: The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party on Tuesday dissolved all existing appointments to the post of party spokesperson with immediate effect and designated former MLA Vidya Chavan and Mahesh Tapase as the only authorised spokespersons until further orders.In a statement posted on X, the…

Maharashtra has banned unstandardised paneer statewide for one year. MUMBAI: Maharashtra has imposed an immediate one-year statewide ban on the manufacture, distribution and sale of all unstandardised analogue and non-dairy paneer, citing serious public health concerns and widespread consumer deception.The ban also applies to hotels, caterers, restaurants and other eateries, making it illegal to manufacture,…

The state government has reduced its Transport Department headquarters plan from sixteen stories (Image used for representational purpose only) MUMBAI: The state govt has cut down its grand plans of a 16 storey high-rise to house the Transport Department’s head quarters due to height restrictions imposed by the Navy.Instead, the state govt has approved Rs…

Doctors’ strike to intensify across Maharashtra today MUMBAI: Despite opposition from medical experts, Maharashtra Tuesday became the first state where a homeopath has been allowed to prescribe modern medicines by the state medical council based on a one-year certificate course.The move has raised alarm across the medical community who fear this would lead to life-threatening…

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has designated 23 additional special fast-track courts across Maharashtra to ensure speedy trials in examination paper leak and related malpractice cases. Among the newly designated courts is one in Bhiwandi, where the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) paper leak case surfaced last month.The move follows the High Court’s earlier decision to…