Court rejects DRI plea to cancel bail in Rs 30 crore furniture scam (Representative image) MUMBAI: The Sessions Court rejected the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) plea seeking cancellation of bail granted to accused Falgun Yogendra Shroff in Rs 30 crores imported furniture scam.The case pertains to August last year when the DRI arrested businessman…
Mumbai: Autonomous colleges affiliated to Mumbai University will have to ‘mandatorily’ seek approval for all their programmes and courses from the university’s academic council. Till date, colleges were only expected to ‘inform’ the university of the new courses they planned to offer. Additionally, these colleges will have to submit their examination committee minutes and status…
Mumbai: Mumbai has recorded a 28% drop in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases over the last three years, with annual resistant cases falling from 5,698 in 2022 to 4,080 in 2025.A total of 1,093 drug-resistant patients were on the newly introduced BPaLM regimen, which cuts down treatment time from 18 months to six months. Others…
Mumbai: Days after a bonnet macaque was shot with an arrow in Thane’s Upvan area, two more monkeys of bonnet macaque species have been injured in a similar fashion with arrows by an unknown persons in the region.The state forest department has lodged a preliminary offence report against an unknown person under the Wildlife Protection…
Mumbai: Former NCB Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede told the Bombay High Court on Monday that he never demanded or took a bribe from actor Shah Rukh Khan to spare his son Aryan Khan following the latter’s arrest in a cruise drugs case.Wankhede’s counsel, Aabad Ponda, was arguing the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer’s plea…
Autonomous colleges surge in Maharashtra amid UGC relaxations (Representative image) MUMBAI: The number of autonomous colleges in Maharashtra has more than tripled over the past five years, rising from 100 in 2020 to 314 in 2025. Mumbai University accounts for the highest number in the state with 130 autonomous colleges, followed by Savitribai Phule Pune…
Quick-thinking resident foiled a kidnapping attempt in Vikhroli’s Damodar Park. MUMBAI: The presence of mind shown by a resident prevented a man from kidnapping two minor girls from a housing society in Vikhroli. Mohammad Zakaria Qamar Naeem Shamsi (21), a resident of Damodar Park, Maitri Co-operative Housing Society, who helped police arrest Suraj Prasad Banwasi,…
IWSA’s urban rainforest brings biodiversity alive “A tropical rainforest,” says naturalist Vijaya Chakravarty, “is like a multi-storey building. You have the ground cover, the shrubs, the creepers, and, towering above them, the trees.” And every ‘floor’, she continues, motioning up a trunk, forms a distinct ecological niche inhabited by some species or another, from orchids…
MUMBAI: The city’s hospitality and food supply chains are feeling the heat as Mahanagar Gas Ltd’s partial curtailment of 20% of piped gas to commercial and industrial users begins to cause ripples across the city. Around 30-35% of hotels in Mumbai that depend on piped gas have been affected, forcing many establishments to reduce items…
Mumbai: IIT Bombay is investigating an allegation of plagiarism reported against a professor from the institute. A mail alleging plagiarised content in his thesis and a few of his published papers, along with the original source, was sent to the institute’s administration about three weeks ago. While institute authorities refused to divulge details, they said…
