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BEST, crushed under financial woes, gets a mereRs.1,000 cr

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- The classic fable 'The Paper Kite' best describes the BEST Undertaking today: fluttering downward, losing its ability to steer and maintain stability. A decade and a half ago, the U... Read More


Rs.293 cr boost to BMC education budget

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- The BMC on Wednesday announced an education budget of Rs.4,248.08 crore for 2026-27, a significant increase of Rs.293 crore over the previous year. At present, 3,10,426 students stu... Read More


BJP to renominate Ramdas Athawale for Rajya Sabha

Mumbai, Feb. 26 -- With the numbers in the Maharashtra assembly to elect four candidates to the Rajya Sabha, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) state core committee has recommended more than a dozen... Read More


Two-year jail for horse handler for minor's fatal fall during ride

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- A city sessions court on Tuesday has sentenced a Colaba horse handler to two years' rigorous imprisonment for the death of a six-year-old girl who fell during a paid horse ride at C... Read More


Rs.1.4k-cr bank fraud: Forensic audit had many irregularities

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s money-laundering investigation into an alleged Rs.1,438-crore bank fraud involving a private trading firm has revealed that an earlier forensic au... Read More


'8 Maha districts recorded sex ratio of more girls than boys'

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- Even as the state's sex ratio stands at 913 girls to 1,000 boys, as many as 16 districts have recorded a ratio below 900:1,000 according to data tabled in the state assembly by the ... Read More


Biker dies after crashing into open luggage door of bus

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- A 37-year-old man died on Tuesday after his motorcycle rammed into the open luggage compartment of a private travel bus parked on Marve Road in Malad West, police said. The victim, ... Read More


HC denies revaluation relief to LLM student

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday refused to grant relief to a Mumbai University LLM student who sought to reopen the revaluation link for Semester-I backlog subjects, observing that... Read More


Relief for MMRDA as HC cuts Metro One award by 50%

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- Granting partial relief to the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA), the Bombay high court (HC) on Wednesday nearly halved the arbitral award of Rs.496.48 cror... Read More


Expert task force to study digital addiction among kids: Shelar

Mumbai, Feb. 26 -- Maharashtra Information Technology Minister Ashish Shelar on Wednesday said that an expert task force has been constituted to study digital addiction among children and the report w... Read More