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BMC to resume water supply to pools as lake levels rise

Mumbai, Aug. 13 -- The city's swimming pools can get their water supply back, as the city's seven reservoirs now hold nearly 90% of their maximum stock. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) ha... Read More


Pawar meets NCP (SP) MPs, Sule takes car ride with BJP's Tawde

Mumbai, Aug. 13 -- Amid speculation over a possible reunification of the two factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Sharad Pawar, president of the NCP (SP), held a meeting with all eight of... Read More


Nisha da Cunha, writer and beloved literature professor, dies at 92

India, Aug. 13 -- Veteran author and educator Nisha da Cunha passed away at her residence on Tuesday evening at the age of 92, leaving behind a literary legacy as rich as her fiction. Remembered for h... Read More


Minister's kin held for duping man seeking Kumbh tenders

MUMBAI, Aug. 13 -- Two relatives of senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and water resources minister Girish Mahajan have been arrested by the Nashik police for forging documents to collect a Rs... Read More


FDA cancels licences of 10 Ayurvedic drug firms

MUMBAI, Aug. 12 -- The state Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has permanently cancelled the licences of ten companies manufacturing ayurvedic products after serious violations of the Drugs and Cosme... Read More


2 years on, 7.5k candidates for German jobs scheme still await language classes

Mumbai, Aug. 12 -- Two years after the Maharashtra government signed an agreement with the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg to provide skilled manpower, around 7,500 candidates selected for the progr... Read More


HC revokes stop-sale order against Cadila

MUMBAI, Aug. 12 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted relief to Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd while pulling up the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for stopping the sale and distribut... Read More


1/3RD OF TRAINEES UNDER SKILLING SCHEME UNPLACED

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- Since the Centre launched its rural skilling programme in 2014, over 1.8 million youth have been trained, but nearly one in three did not secure a reported placement, according t... Read More


u.s. criminal case against gautamadani dismissed

New York, Aug. 12 -- A US judge has dismissed conspiracy, securities and wire fraud charges against Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani, ending a blockbuster case that threatened the expansion of the bi... Read More


TISS student held for Maoist links sent to judicial custody

MUMBAI, Aug. 12 -- The Esplanade court on Tuesday remanded a Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) student, who was arrested by the Crime Branch on August 7, to judicial custody. The 32-year-old po... Read More