Mumbai: Maharashtra FDA’s crackdown on loose spices could put small retailers and women’s self-help groups in a bind, even as wholesale traders at APMC Vashi expect little disruption to their business. While traders say packaged spices dominate wholesale sales, loose spices account for an estimat...
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Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Drinking water supply in more than 800 authorised colonies in Bhopal is set to undergo a major change, with the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) planning to rope in private agencies to provide water connections to individual households. Under the propos...
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Mumbai, October 15, 2026: Former Supreme Court judge Justice Abhay Oka has urged the Supreme Court to reconsider its May 2026 judgment upholding the constitutionality of the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, questioning the ...
safety
Mumbai, October 15, 2026: Maharashtra Director General of Police (DGP) Sadanand Date has stressed the need for network-focused investigations into human trafficking cases, stating that probes should not be limited to the arrest of a single accused but must uncover the entire netw...
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Mumbai, October 15, 2026: The sessions court on Thursday set aside the chapter proceedings initiated against a group associated with Shiv Sena (UBT) after its members protested against MLA Mangesh Kudalkar for joining the party led by Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. In separ...
schools
Mumbai : The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has come out with 'Anti-Discrimination Guidelines', advising students, faculty members and staff against asking students about their birth, admission category or entrance examination ranks that may result in "conscious or s...
safety
Mumbai: The mystery surrounding the body of an unidentified man found stuffed in a sack and dumped on Versova beach has been solved, with Mumbai Police arresting six people, including members of the same family, in connection with the murder of a vegetable vendor. Crime Branch an...
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Mumbai: The Government of Maharashtra has constituted a task force to prepare a comprehensive plan for the expansion of railway networks, metro corridors and Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and other urban areas of the state. The i...
