Bribe shock at Mantralaya: FDA clerk nabbed red-handed in Rs 35,000 payoff trap
Mumbai: In a dramatic Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) crackdown inside the corridors of power, a clerk attached to the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was caught red-handed while allegedly accepting a Rs 35,000 bribe at Mantralaya, sending shockwaves through the...
Part I of Budget session ends, LS to meet on March 9
The stormy first part of the Budget session, which saw heated exchanges over the India-US interim trade deal and unpublished memoir of former army chief M M Naravane, concluded Friday and the House will now reassemble on March 9. The...
Goa nightclub fire: Court denies bail to Luthra brothers
A court in Goa on Thursday dismissed the bail applications of Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra, both owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub where 25 people were killed in a devastating fire in December last year. The fire broke...
RERA doing nothing except facilitating defaulting builders: SC
The Supreme Court on Thursday said it is high time all states rethought the constitution of the real estate regulatory authority (RERA) as the institution is doing nothing, except facilitating defaulting builders. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and...
India to procure 114 Rafale jets
The defence ministry on Thursday cleared a long-pending proposal to procure 114 Rafale fighter jets under a government-to-government framework from France, nearly 13 years after a similar acquisition was almost firmed up. In total, capital acquisition of military hardware worth...
Big relief: Maharashtra scraps separate NA permission in major land reform
Mumbai: In a landmark reform aimed at simplifying land conversion procedures and reducing bureaucratic hurdles, the Maharashtra Government has abolished the requirement of obtaining separate Non-Agricultural (NA) permission for converting agricultural land for non-agricultural use. Announcing the major decision on Wednesday,...
IndiGo Prepared To Implement FDTL Rules: DGCA
IndiGo has informed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that it is fully prepared to implement the new Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) rules from Wednesday, following the expiry of a one-time temporary exemption granted to the airline after...
Grounded Jet Airways to sell 3 aircraft frames, 6 engines for $46 mn
Grounded Jet Airways has executed an agreement for the sale of three aircraft frames and six engines to a Malta-based entity for USD 46 million. Jet Airways flew for 25 years before stopping operations in April 2019 due to debt...
Construction of Babri-style mosque begins in Bengal
Suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir on Wednesday began the construction of the much-hyped mosque -- modelled on Ayodhya's Babri Masjid -- in West Bengal's Murshidabad district. Kabir, who recently floated Janata Unnayan Party (JUP), announced that the mosque at Rejinagar...
Bharat Bandh on February 12: What’s open and what’s not
Nagpur: India is preparing for a large nationwide shutdown on Thursday, February 12, 2026. Central trade unions and farmer organizations are joining together for a 24-hour Bharat Bandh. The strike, expected to include over 30 crore workers, protests against the...
Digital Evaluation Of Class 12 Board Papers: CBSE
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday announced the introduction of on-screen marking (OSM) for the evaluation of Class 12 board examinations, scheduled to begin on February 17. In a letter to the principals and heads of all...
Maha to fill 70,000 Govt posts with new skill-based recruitment model
Mumbai: In one of the largest recruitment drives in recent years, the Maharashtra Government on Monday announced that over 70,000 vacant posts across State departments will be filled through a reformed, skill-oriented and fully transparent recruitment process, Chief Minister Devendra...
Maha Dy CM Sunetra Pawar takes charge of official duties
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar on Tuesday assumed her ministerial duties at the state secretariat Mantralaya, 13 days after the death of her husband and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar. She was accompanied by senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders...
BJP, Shiv Sena ahead in Maharashtra Zilla Parishad polls
The Bharatiya Janata Party and its Mahayuti ally Shiv Sena were ahead of their rivals in the early trends of the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti polls in Maharashtra as counting of votes began on Monday morning. The BJP established an...
Rohit Pawar flags doubts over Ajit Pawar crash, plans Feb 10 reveal
Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar leader Rohit Pawar on Saturday said everyone has doubts about the circumstances surrounding Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's death in an air crash, and he would provide a detailed presentation about it on February 10. Speaking to...
Ritu Tawde is BJP’s Mumbai Mayor pick, Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Ghadi is her Deputy
Mumbai: BJP Corporator Ritu Tawde has been named the Mahayuti alliance’s candidate for the Mumbai Mayor’s post, BJP President Ameet Satam announced on Friday. She is expected to file her nomination shortly for the top post of Asia's richest civic...
Shinde-Uddhav’s Senas join hands for Maha ZP poll
Bitter rivals, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena-UBT, have come together to form a front in Barshi taluka of Maharashtra's Solapur district along with two Nationalist Congress Party factions ahead of the local polls. Elections to 12...
Cognizant To Pay 100% Bonus
Cognizant has given 100 per cent bonus to its employees after the company reported better-than-expected full year numbers, and said it has reached the winners circle earlier than it anticipated. The term, being frequently used over the last year by CEO...
RBI pauses rate cuts, retains interest rate at 5.25%
After a 25 basis point rate cut in December, the RBI on Friday decided to pause on the policy rate front amid geopolitical uncertainties. This is the first monetary policy review after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the...
After Rahul, Kharge stopped from quoting Naravane
The Opposition led by Congress staged a walkout on Thursday from the Rajya Sabha after Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge was not allowed to quote from a "memoir" of former Army chief M M Naravane on the 2020 India-China conflict. ...
Tri-city study flags lack of safe cycling infrastructure
Pune: The culmination of the Pune Grand Cycling Tour has put cycling back into public focus in Maharashtra, offering an opportunity for all cities to ensure local cyclists have the best infrastructure to cycle on. In this context, a multi-city...
