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The candidates had reportedly obtained their medical degrees from foreign countries but had not cleared the FMGE screening examination conducted by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences Mumbai: The Maharashtra Nodal Cyber Police have registered an FIR against 22 foreign medical graduates for allegedly uploading fake and suspicious documents on Maharashtra Medical Council…

Mumbai: Interviews for the recruitment of 5,012 assistant professors in Maharashtra’s aided senior colleges will now have to be recorded on CCTV, with the footage preserved for at least a year, as the state govt tightens oversight of the hiring process.Fresh guidelines issued by govt place greater responsibility on universities, colleges and selection committees to…

The incident occurred in the afternoon opposite Jijamata Garden on John Baptist Road, when Ansh Ravindra Gupta was crossing the road (AI Image) MUMBAI: An eight-year-old boy was run over and killed by a speeding car in Mumbai’s Bandra area on Sunday, allegedly driven by a 45-year-old woman who was prima facie distracted while talking…

Mumbai: Three men were arrested by Kandivli police for taking a gold loan from a financial institution, splurging the funds and then resorting to cybercrime to repay the institution. The trio was involved in a malicious APK file fraud, in which they duped two suburban residents of Rs 6.2 lakh collectively.The accused were identified as…

The incident occurred around 7.30 pm when 140 metric tonnes of cargo was being unloaded from the Barbados-flagged vessel Vienna using two cranes. MUMBAI: A crane collapsed during a lifting operation at the BPS terminal of city port on Sunday evening, leaving two crane operators injured.The incident occurred around 7.30 pm when 140 metric tonnes…

The city has 150 padel courts spread across 40 venues. MUMBAI: In a city where every square foot is fiercely contested, even recreation must learn to adapt. As Mumbai’s playgrounds shrink and open spaces become increasingly scarce, padel is finding room to flourish. The fast-paced racquet sport that is a mix of tennis and squash,…

(L-R) Karim Lala, Haji Mastan and Varadarajan Mudaliar. MUMBAI: Long before Dawood Ibrahim became synonymous with Mumbai’s underworld, the city had already produced a generation of crime bosses who controlled smuggling routes, gambling dens, illicit liquor networks and local rackets.They were different from the gangsters who followed them.Their power was often rooted in particular neighbourhoods…

Mumbai recorded its third-lowest August rainfall in ten years after a very wet July. MUMBAI: After experiencing its fourth-wettest July in nearly a decade, Mumbai saw an unusually subdued month, recording its third-lowest Aug rainfall in 10 years.The IMD’s Santacruz observatory (the city’s benchmark) recorded 315.3mm of rainfall between Aug 1 and 30. Only two…

Auto-rickshaw and taxi fares will increase across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region starting September 1. MUMBAI: Auto-rickshaw and taxi rides will cost more across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) from midnight on Monday, with revised fares coming into effect from September 1. The state transport department on Sunday released the new tariff cards, giving commuters and…

The Bombay Milk Producers Association has decided to raise the wholesale prices of buffalo milk, effective from September 1st MUMBAI: Buffalo milk prices in Mumbai are set to rise from Sept 1, with the wholesale rate increasing by Rs 9 to Rs 102 per litre, Bombay Milk Producers’ Association said.Retail prices are likely to range…