Union Minister’s daughter harassed at fair in Jalgaon, 1 arrested
Mumbai: A junior minister in the Union Cabinet has raised questions over women's safety in Maharashtra after her minor daughter was harassed at a fair in Jalgaon district, giving ammunition to the Opposition Congress over the law-and-order situation in the...
Oscars 2025: ‘Anora’ wins Best Picture, Mikey Madison Best Actress, Adrien Brody Best Actor
Los Angeles: “Anora” won the Best Picture at the 97th Oscar Awards at the iconic Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, closing out a fairy-tale night for Sean Baker’s raw and irreverent tale of a Brooklyn sex worker. The film picked...
Harrison Ford to skip Oscars 2025 due to illness
Hollywood veteran Harrison Ford will give the 97th Academy Awards a miss after being diagnosed with shingles. The 82-year-old actor's representative confirmed Ford's diagnosis and his absence from the ceremony to the entertainment news outlet Variety. Ford, whose latest film appearance is...
Budget session: Will Mahayuti keep its flock together to counter MVA heat?
Mumbai: The Maharashtra budget session, set to begin on March 3, will serve as a crucial test for the Mahayuti government led by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. Despite holding a comfortable majority, the coalition faces internal discord and mounting pressure...
No fuel to 15-yr-old vehicles in Delhi from April 1
The Delhi government will stop providing petrol to vehicles older than 15 years at fuel stations across the city after March 31, Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa announced on Saturday. Following a meeting with officials to discuss measures to...
CM Fadnavis receives bomb threat from Pakistani number
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has received a bomb threat from a Pakistani number, prompting a swift police investigation. The threat was relayed through a WhatsApp message to the Mumbai Traffic Police on Friday, officials confirmed. According to Mumbai Police,...
Drones, dogs track Pune rape accused after 75 hours of manhunt
Pune: Dattatraya Ramdas Gade, the man accused of allegedly raping a 26-year-old woman inside a bus at Pune's Swargate bus station, has been arrested on Friday. Gade was arrested from the Shirur Tehsil after nearly 75 hours of a manhunt....
Modi reflects on Maha Kumbh, calls it a ‘Maha Yagya of Unity’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to social media on February 27 to reflect on the conclusion of the Maha Kumbh, describing it as a "Maha Yagya of unity." In his post on the social media platform X, PM Modi expressed...
Pune rape incident exposes the dire state of Maharashtra’s law and order situation: Harshavardhan Sapkal
Mumbai: The shocking incident of a young woman being raped inside a state transport bus at Pune's Swargate station has once again raised serious concerns about women's safety. The Home Minister is preoccupied with shielding corrupt officers while the security...
Maharashtra Extends HSRP Deadline to April 30, 2025
Mumbai-Nagpur: The Maharashtra government has extended the deadline for installing High-Security Registration Plates (HSRPs) to April 30, 2025. The deadline was initially set for March 31, 2025, but authorities decided to push it further to prevent a last-minute rush and...
More delay: SC defers hearing on Maharashtra civic polls till March 4
New Delhi: Maharashtra's long-awaited civic elections will be further delayed as the Supreme Court has decided to hear the matter on March 4. The delay stems from a petition regarding OBC reservation, which has held up the polls. Political parties,...
CBSE Class 10 Board exams twice a year from 2026
Nagpur/New Delhi: Students taking the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class X Board exams will be able to select between two exam sessions beginning in 2026: One in February 2026 and another in May 2026. Additionally, candidates will have...
Credit Card Spending Rises To Rs 1.84 Trn
Credit card spends grew by 10.8 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to Rs 1.84 trillion in January 2025, even as there was a marginal drop sequentially, latest data released by the RBI showed. Credit card spend of the leading card issuer HDFC...
Maha Dy CM Shinde gets death threat, email threatens to blow up his car
Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has received a death threat, police said on Thursday. According to police, the threat was sent via email from an unknown account. According to a media report, the sender has threatened to blow up...
Rahul Gandhi Seeks Conversion of Defamation Case into Summons Trial to Present Historical Facts on Savarkar
Pune: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has moved a special MP/MLA court in Pune, requesting the conversion of a summary trial in a defamation case against him into a summons trial. The case stems from Gandhi’s alleged defamatory remarks about late...
High-flying way: Running late for exam, this Maha student paraglides to college to dodge traffic
Mumbai: A student from Maharashtra's Satara district found a high-flying way to dodge traffic and make it to his exams on time, by paragliding to his college. No, you read that correctly. A video of the incident has gone viral...
15 dead as Kumbh crowd leads to stampede at New Delhi Railway Station
New Delhi:Severe overcrowding at New Delhi Railway Station on Saturday night led to chaos, resulting in at least 15 fatalities and multiple injuries, according to officials. The incident, which occurred around 10 PM on platforms 13 and 14, was triggered...
10 killed as car collides with bus en route to Kumbh
Ten persons travelling in a Bolero car were killed in a head-on collision with a bus on a highway in the Meja police station area of Prayagraj late on Friday night, police said on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Vivek...
Poor show: India ranks 96 out of 180 countries in list of most corrupt nations
New Delhi: In a poor show, India ranked 96 out of 180 countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2024, according to a Transparency International Report released on Tuesday. India's score dropped by one point to 38 as per...
SC slams pre-poll freebies, ‘people won’t work’
The Supreme Court on Wednesday deprecated the practice of announcing freebies prior to elections, and said people were not willing to work as they were getting free ration and money. The observations came from a bench of Justices B R...
Maharashtra Confirms 167 Cases Of Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Reports Seven Deaths
The Maharashtra Health Department has reported a total of 192 suspected cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) across the state, with 167 cases confirmed so far, according to sources. Seven deaths have been recorded, of which one has been confirmed as GBS,...
