State to enter ‘highly vulnerable’ red zone for aerosol pollution in 2023: Study

The study has identified thermal power plants, solid fuel burning and vehicular emissions as main sources of aerosol pollution posing a host of health problems for citizens Mumbai: Aerosol pollution in Maharashtra is likely to move to 'highly vulnerable' red zone...

Justice Chandrachud takes oath as India’s 50th CJI

Justice DY Chandrachud formally takes oath as the new Chief Justice of India. He will have a tenure till November 10, 2024. Supreme Court judges retire at the age of 65. Justice Chandrachud is the second most senior judge of the...

Sanjay Raut’s bail plea hearing today

A special court in Mumbai is likely to pronounce its order on Wednesday on the bail plea of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut in a money laundering case pertaining to the Patra Chawl redevelopment project. Special Judge M G...

India indebted to Manmohan Singh for liberalisation: Gadkari

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said the country is indebted to former prime minister Manmohan Singh for the economic reforms. India needs a liberal economic policy with the intention to provide its benefits to poor people, Gadkari said while speaking...

Maha CM asks railway officials to reconstruct Gokhale bridge at earliest

Mumbai, June 30 (ANI): Eknath Shinde takes oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra during the swearing-in ceremony, in Mumbai on Thursday. (ANI Photo) Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday asked Western Railway officials to reconstruct the dilapidated Gokhale...

Earthquake Jolts Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad; Epicentre In Nepal

India’s Covid tally lowest since April 2020

India recorded its lowest single-day rise of 625 fresh Covid-19 cases since April 9, 2020 and reported no death in a 24-hour span, the first time since March 2020, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday. The country's infection...

Verdict on prayers at ‘Shivling’ at Gyanvapi on Nov 14

A Varanasi court adjourns the hearing of a plea seeking worship of the 'Shivling' in the Gyanvapi mosque premises to November 14. The verdict will be based on the plea of the three main demands by the plaintiff which include the...

Shinde Fadnavis government transfers 104 IPS and State police officers in Maharashtra

Mumbai: In a major reshuffle, the Shinde Fadnavis government on Monday transferred a record 104 IPS and State Police Service officers in the state. These transfers are mainly of the rank of deputy police commissioner or superintendent of police. A...

Bengaluru court orders blocking Twitter handles of Congress party, Bharat Jodo Yatra in copyright infringement suit

A commercial court in Bengaluru on Monday directed Twitter to temporarily block twitter handles of Indian National Congress (INC) and its mass movement, Bharat Jodo Yatra in a copyright infringement suit initiated by MRT Music (plaintiff) alleging that the handles...

SC in 3-2 verdict upholds 10% quota for economically weaker sections

The Supreme Court of India, by a majority view of 3:2, on Monday upheld the validity of the 103rd Constitution amendment providing 10 per cent reservation to people belonging to the economically weaker sections (EWS) in admissions and government jobs. The...

Twitter impersonators will be permanently suspended: Musk

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted that the microblogging site will permanently suspend any account that impersonates another. "Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying "parody" will be permanently suspended," Musk wrote. In a...

AirAsia India’s Pune-Bengaluru flight aborts take off at last minute

A Bengaluru-bound AirAsia India flight from Pune aborted take off at the last minute on Sunday due to a technical issue. The number of passengers on board the A320 aircraft ...

Uddhav camp’s Rutuja Latke wins Andheri bypoll, NOTA comes 2nd

Rutuja Latke, the candidate of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), secured a comfortable win in the bypoll to Andheri (East) Assembly seat in Mumbai on Sunday, while votes polled in favour of the None of the Above (NOTA) option...

RSS cancels Nov 6 events in TN, to appeal against HC verdict allowing route marches with riders

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Saturday said it will not hold its proposed route marches on November 6 as certain conditions laid down by the Madras high court in this connection were "not acceptable" to it. An appeal will be...

Massive Fire Breaks Out At Fashion Street In South Mumbai

A massive fire has broken out in a few shops at the Fashion Street in South Mumbai's Churchgate area on Saturday, November 5. It is pertinent to mention that the firefighters immediately rushed to the spot and managed to douse...

Death toll rises to 2 in Chennai building collapse

The death toll in the building collapse on Chennai's Mint Street on Friday has gone up to two after a man succumbed to his injuries at a city hospital, the police said on Saturday. "The death toll in Chennai building...

Maha CM Shinde calls on Sharad Pawar in hospital

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday visited Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar at the Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai. Pawar has been undergoing treatment at the hospital for the last few days. ''The chief minister called on Pawar...

HC dismisses plea on Musk with 25K fine

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed with Rs 25,000 costs a plea seeking to implead Twitter's new owner Elon Musk as party to a petition challenging suspension of a user's account for an alleged violation of its rules. ...

36 XBB, 33 with XBB.1 Covid cases in Mumbai

All 234 swab samples tested in the 16th genome sequencing series in Mumbai have been detected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus, including 36, or 15 per cent, with the XBB subvariant, a civic official said on Friday. A...