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MU graduates still awaiting certs nearly a month after convocation

Mumbai, Feb. 12 -- Nearly a month after the University of Mumbai (MU) awarded degrees to over 1.72 lakh students at its main convocation on January 17, many graduates are still waiting for their print... Read More


Shetty house firing: Police say intention was to create terror

MUMBAI, Feb. 12 -- The police have invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in the case related to the firing at filmmaker Rohit Shetty's residence in Juhu, claiming in... Read More


Relief denied to Altamount Road society over 30-ft height cap

Mumbai, Feb. 12 -- The Bombay High Court has refused interim relief to a co-operative housing society on Altamount Road in Malabar Hill, stalling its proposed redevelopment plan due to a restrictive c... Read More


Tawde vows crackdown on illegal Bangladeshi hawkers

MUMBAI, Feb. 12 -- Mumbai's new mayor, Ritu Tawde, 52, says high on her list of priorities is clearing the city's footpaths of illegal Bangladeshi hawkers, restoring pavements to pedestrians and senio... Read More


Naik targets 6-yr NMMC administrator rule

Navi Mumbai, Feb. 12 -- Forest minister and BJP strongman Ganesh Naik met the newly elected mayor of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC), Sujata Patil, and directed the civic body to release ... Read More


BJP's Ritu Tawde elected unopposed

MUMBAI, Feb. 12 -- Ritu Tawde, 52, was elected Mumbai's 78th mayor on Wednesday, fulfilling the BJP's promise that the city's first citizen would be a Marathi, while the Shiv Sena's Sanjay Ghadi was e... Read More


ZP, Panchayat celebrations turn violent; 11 PEOPLE BOOKED

NAVI MUMBAI, Feb. 12 -- Post-election celebrations following the declaration of Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti results spiralled into violence in Raigad district on Sunday, with a group of Shiv S... Read More


TIFR Survey finds Indian students lacking basic understanding of astronomy

Mumbai, Feb. 12 -- Indian students, although curious and fascinated by astronomy, struggle to understand the basic concepts of the subject, revealed a nationwide survey of more than 2,000 secondary sc... Read More


120-ft DP Rd greenlit as 167 families rehabilitated

Mumbai, Feb. 12 -- A key hurdle in the construction of the proposed 120-ft Development Plan (DP) Road connecting Lokhandwala Township to Thakur Village in Kandivali (East) was cleared on Wednesday, wi... Read More


Five injured as lift plunges in byculla building

Mumbai, Feb. 12 -- Five persons were injured after a lift plunged from the fourth floor to the ground floor of an 18-storey residential building in Byculla late on Tuesday night. The incident, reporte... Read More