On Dec 29, 2017, a fire started at rooftop restaurants, 1Above and Mojo’s Bistro at Kamala Mills, where several patrons were enjoying a night out and claimed 14 lives Mumbai: Holding that he had prima facie violated earlier travel conditions by failing to mark attendance and surrender his passport after returning to India, in a…
In the last year, BMC has been embroiled in a series of transfer-related controversies regarding the postings of its civic engineers. Mumbai: Amid repeated allegations of favouritism in the transfer of municipal engineers, the BMC is planning to introduce a software-based randomisation system to allocate postings for engineers, significantly reducing human intervention in the process.Civic…
While around 130 colleges affiliated with the university currently enjoy autonomy, most are traditional arts, science and commerce colleges Mumbai: SVKM’s Pravin Gandhi College of Law, has become the first law college under Mumbai University to be granted autonomous status by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The college has been granted autonomy for a period…
It is alleged that several institutions submitted their fee proposals after the prescribed deadline Mumbai: Lakhs of students and parents across Maharashtra could face an additional financial burden running into crores of rupees after the Fee Regulating Authority allegedly approved fee increases for 1,272 unaided professional colleges beyond the statutory deadline.Yuva Sena has alleged that…
Siddhivinayak temple trustees said a staffer arrested for theft was affiliated with Shiv Sena (UBT) Mumbai: The trustees of Siddhivinayak temple have refused to resign in the wake of the controversy involving alleged embezzlement of temple funds and blamed staffers appointed by the erstwhile dispensation under Uddhav Thackeray for a series of thefts. MNS chief…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has granted bail to a visually challenged man (33) who was booked for raping a college student (17) on the false pretext of releasing her from possession of ghosts.Justice Shyam Chandak on July 30 found “substance” in the submission of his advocate Ashley Cusher that “prima facie, this is a…
Mumbai: BMC has initiated legal action against a housing society for allegedly violating tree conservation regulations by poisoning trees and another for carrying out pruning beyond the limits permitted by the civic body.According to the civic body, non-cognisable offence cases have been registered at the respective police stations against the office-bearers of DGS Shital Tapovan…
Mumbai: A dozen FIRs have been filed against slumlords in Aarey colony since March.Aarey colony CEO Shrikant Shipurkar, who filed these FIRs, is in the process of filing another 10 FIRs against anti-social elements responsible for the growth of illegal structures in the eco-sensitive zone.“We have filed these FIRs under the BNSS. We are also…
The plan follows the allotment of Toyota Innova Hycross hybrid vehicles to mayor Ritu Tawde (right) and additional municipal commissioners. Currently, the BMC chief Ashwini Bhide uses an EV (left). MUMBAI: Six new Toyota Innova Crysta vehicles, a fleet of old Mahindra Scorpio-N SUVs and a BJP leader who says he regularly travels by train…
The National Company Law Tribunal has cleared the sale of aircraft registered as VT-JES ($16 million), VT-JEV ($12.5 million) and VT-JEM ($17.5 million). (File Photo) MUMBAI: The first of three Jet Airways Boeing 777-300ERs that had been sitting idle at Mumbai airport since 2019 departed on Monday, more than seven years after the airline grounded…
