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…
Navi Mumbai: The patrolling team of APMC police station foiled a dacoity attempt by a five-member gang that was spotted suspiciously roaming on two bikes on the Turbhe village service road parallel to the Sion-Panvel Highway earlier this week.While three men on one bike escaped when the police team intercepted their way, police succeeded in…
Mumbai is experiencing relentless heavy rainfall, with the city receiving a significant portion of its average July rainfall in just four days MUMBAI: Heavy rain continued lashing the Mumbai region Saturday with the city receiving nearly 80% of its average July rainfall in just 4 days. Since July 1, the IMD’s Santacruz observatory has recorded…
Padmini Kolhapure returns to the stage as a vocalist for Hema Malini’s Diamond Jubilee Concert, celebrating a six-decade cinematic legacy. Reflecting on her own 50-year acting career, Kolhapure emphasizes music’s personal significance and the irreplaceable magic of live performance. Padmini Kolhapure is set to return to the stage as a vocalist at Hema Malini’s Diamond…
Navi Mumbai: Three separate FIRs of power theft were registered at APMC police station earlier this week against a landlord who has rented his three houses in a building in Kopri village in Sector 26A, Vashi, and his three tenants.The FIRs were lodged by MSEDCL’s assistant engineer (recovery squad), Jayesh Gaikar (25), on behalf of…
Turtles, rabbits and even a deer have passed through this crematorium Thane is about to get its second pet crematorium. The Kalwa facility, free like its predecessor, opens on August 15, with two more planned along Ghodbunder Road and in Kopri. Until then, the Thane Municipal Corporation’s pet crematorium in Majiwada remains the district’s only…
