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New teacher approval rules may shut down 620 schools in state

MUMBAI, Feb. 21 -- The state government's revised teacher approval policy has sparked alarm among education activists and teachers' representatives, who warn that nearly 90 government-run secondary sc... Read More


court refuses to discharge salim fruit in extortion case

MUMBAI, Feb. 21 -- A special court under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) has refused to discharge Salim Iqbal Qureshi, also known as Salim Fruit, in a high-profile extortion cas... Read More


Man held at airport for fake yellow fever vax certificate

MUMBAI, Feb. 21 -- A 47-year-old man from Dehradun was arrested at Mumbai airport on Wednesday after immigration officials found that the Yellow Fever vaccination certificate he submitted on arrival f... Read More


Man held for duping senior citizens at ATMs

MUMBAI, Feb. 21 -- The Kasturba Marg police on Friday arrested a 37-year-old man for allegedly duping senior citizens at ATM kiosks by swapping their debit cards and siphoning off money. Police said 7... Read More


Rajesh Narvekar is new transport commissioner

Mumbai, Feb. 21 -- The Maharashtra government on Friday appointed senior IAS officer Rajesh Narvekar as the state's new Transport Commissioner, replacing Vivek Bhimanwar, who retired at the end of Jan... Read More


Writer who transformed shades of mundane urban life into iconic tales

Kolkata, Feb. 21 -- Bengali novelist Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, known to millions by his pen name Sankar whose works transformed the mundane realities of a fast changing urban life into timeless narra... Read More


Monorail clears first of two safety nods

Mumbai, Feb. 21 -- The Mumbai Monorail has cleared the first of two safety clearances, mandated by MMRDA, following a spate of technical glitches in 2025. On Friday, the new rolling stock was certifie... Read More


INDIA JOINS PAX SILICA

New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- India on Friday became the 10th country to join the US-led Pax Silica initiative for secure global supply chains for AI technology and semiconductors, strengthening the bilateral... Read More


5 jailed for life in 2016 kerala lynching case

Malappuram(Kerala), Feb. 21 -- A local court on Friday sentenced five people to life imprisonment for lynching a 42-year-old man in 2016 in a suspected moral policing incident in Mankada. The five, co... Read More


ai must be used to strengthen truth: om birla

New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday warned against deepfakes and misinformation while outlining AI's potential to highlight threats to democratic discourse and the need for ethi... Read More