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'Racecourse underground plan may weaken city's flood resilience'

Mumbai, Feb. 21 -- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC's) plan to construct a large underground sports complex and parking facility beneath the Mahalaxmi Racecourse-which HT first reported i... Read More


Sena (UBT), MNS spar over co-opted member seats

Mumbai, Feb. 21 -- All is not well, it seems, between cousins Uddhav and Raj Thackeray, who had come together "to stay together" ahead of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls in the name... Read More


Prabhakar Shinde is 1st BJP standing committee chief

Mumbai, Feb. 21 -- BJP corporator Prabhakar Shinde on Friday assumed office after being elected unopposed as chairman of the Standing Committee of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Shinde ... Read More


Line of Code, the new LOC in battle against China

India, Feb. 21 -- What if the next war over Arunachal Pradesh is not fought on a mountain, but on a motherboard? The signs are on the wall. At the recently concluded India AI Summit, Lt. Gen. Dinesh S... Read More


New teacher approval rules may shut down 620 schools in state

MUMBAI, Feb. 21 -- The state government's revised teacher approval policy has sparked alarm among education activists and teachers' representatives, who warn that nearly 90 government-run secondary sc... Read More


court refuses to discharge salim fruit in extortion case

MUMBAI, Feb. 21 -- A special court under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) has refused to discharge Salim Iqbal Qureshi, also known as Salim Fruit, in a high-profile extortion cas... Read More


Man held at airport for fake yellow fever vax certificate

MUMBAI, Feb. 21 -- A 47-year-old man from Dehradun was arrested at Mumbai airport on Wednesday after immigration officials found that the Yellow Fever vaccination certificate he submitted on arrival f... Read More


Man held for duping senior citizens at ATMs

MUMBAI, Feb. 21 -- The Kasturba Marg police on Friday arrested a 37-year-old man for allegedly duping senior citizens at ATM kiosks by swapping their debit cards and siphoning off money. Police said 7... Read More


Rajesh Narvekar is new transport commissioner

Mumbai, Feb. 21 -- The Maharashtra government on Friday appointed senior IAS officer Rajesh Narvekar as the state's new Transport Commissioner, replacing Vivek Bhimanwar, who retired at the end of Jan... Read More


Writer who transformed shades of mundane urban life into iconic tales

Kolkata, Feb. 21 -- Bengali novelist Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, known to millions by his pen name Sankar whose works transformed the mundane realities of a fast changing urban life into timeless narra... Read More