Mumbai

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Mumbai: Strike by drivers of BEST’s private bus operators continues on 3rd day

Mumbai: The strike by the drivers of private bus operators hired by the BEST – Mumbai’s civic transport utility – intensified on the third day on Friday with more than 1,300 buses…
Watch: Student dances on convocation stage, draws faculty’s ire

Hyderabad: Arya Kothari, a student from Mumbai was criticized on the convocation dias when he made his way to receive his degree singing ‘tenu leke mae jawanga…’, from Salman Khan-starrer ‘Salaam-E-Ishq’. This…

Girl in burqa denied entry in Mumbai college, allowed after protest

Mumbai: A college in Mumbai stopped girl students from entering the premises while wearing burqa, but relented after a protest by parents and students and intervention by senior police officials. The security…
Violence in Manipur, Haryana shows BJP cannot run govt: Uddhav

Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday slammed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the violence in Manipur and Haryana, saying the development proves that the party cannot run…
Will probe ‘sudden glorification’ of Aurangzeb: Maha dy CM Fadnavis

Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said if necessary, a dedicated SIT would be set up to probe whether the “sudden glorification” of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb by some elements…
UAE: Indian expat turns crorepati overnight, wins Rs 44 cr in Mahzooz draw

Abu Dhabi: A 47-year-old United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Indian expatriate from Mumbai won the grand prize of Dirhams 20 million (Rs 44,96,20,246) in the latest Mahzooz draw. The winner Sachin, who works…
Train firing victim Saifuddin’s body moved to his hometown Bidar

Hyderabad: Dead body of Syed Saifuddin was shifted from Bhagvati Hospital in Borivili to his home town Bidar in an ambulance on Wednesday, July 2. Saifuddin was one of the four victims…

Maharashtra: KCR demands Bharat Ratna for social reformer Annabhau Sathe

Mumbai: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday said he will write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to confer Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, on noted Marathi poet and…
Maha: 16 killed after crane collapses on Samruddhi Expressway

Mumbai: Fifteen workers were killed and three injured as a crane fell on a bridge slab during construction of the third phase of Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra’s Thane district on Tuesday, an…
Clamour grows to nab Bhide for slur on Mahatma, FIR in Thane

Mumbai: After Amravati, a fresh FIR was lodged by Thane Naupada police against Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide for his alleged derogatory remarks targeting Mahatma Gandhi, with clamour for his arrest from the…
Owaisi calls train shooting by RPF constable a ‘terror attack’

Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday termed the gruesome incident in which a Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable shot dead four persons on a train in Maharashtra as a “terror attack…
If all 3 MVA partners decide, there can be change in Maha: Sharad

Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar has said if his party, the Congress and the Shiv Sena (UBT) decide, they can usher in a change in Maharashtra. The NCP, Congress…
Ex-judge who faced flak for controversial POCSO Act judgements moves HC over pension

Mumbai: Former High Court judge Pushpa Ganediwala, who faced flak over a series of controversial judgments for the interpretation of what constitutes as sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual…
Oppn bloc INDIA’s Mumbai meeting may be deferred to September

New Delhi: The opposition alliance INDIA is likely to defer its third meeting in Mumbai to the first week of September after some leaders conveyed they may be unavailable on August 25-26…
Centre notifies appointment, elevation of judges in different HCs

Delhi: The Central Government on Saturday notified the appointment and elevations of several Judges in Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Bombay Calcutta, Gauhati, Kerala and Chhatisgarh High Courts. According to the Centre’s notifications, the…