Bollywood actress Swara Bhasker shared a video on social media, clarifying her controversial Padmaavat Jauhar comment. Swara claimed that her statement was being “wrongly” translated and that a false narrative was being circulated. “Maine kuch kaha tha jo ab sarasar galat tareeke...
Palghar, Maharashtra: A district-level review meeting on the implementation of the Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Shetkari Karjmukti Yojana 2026 was held in Palghar on Tuesday under the chairpersonship of District Collector Dr. Indu Rani Jakhar. Officials Review Scheme Progress The...
Mumbai: The guidelines governing the immersion of Plaster of Paris (PoP) idols in Maharashtra will continue to remain in force until further orders of the Bombay High Court, the state Environment and Climate Change Department said in a circular issued on Monday. Guidelines Issued...
Six suspects apprehended and released after notice served by Khar police
Palghar, Maharashtra: An FIR has been registered in connection with the deaths of two students at the aided Ashram School at Maswan in Palghar taluka, with allegations of negligence and failure to provide timely medical care to the children. Five School Officials Named The FIR, r...
Mumbai: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has traced and booked six people, including a 16-year-old boy, for allegedly performing dangerous stunts and graffiti activities on and around the Bhayandar railway bridge without permission. Five of them were produced before the Railway...
Mumbai: Nearly one-and-a-half years after Maharashtra established the Minority Research and Training Institute (MRTI) to aid the development of minority groups, the state government appointed Deputy Chief Minister and Minority Affairs Minister Sunetra Pawar as its chairperson and...
Mumbai: Shiv Sena has stepped in to address complaints from residents of Worli Koliwada over garbage accumulation and poor sanitation, with a year-long cleanliness campaign announced for the area. Maharashtra Legislative Council Deputy Chairman Sachin Ahir led a cleanliness and b...
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker Anna Bansode has directed the authorities to take positive steps to provide relief to 246 boat owners from Raigad district who were denied special financial assistance despite suffering losses due to Cyclo...
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: The Maharashtra government will take positive steps towards setting up a modern fish market, cold storage, fish vending centre and other essential infrastructure at Malegaon in Washim district, Fisheries and Ports Minister Nitesh Rane said on Tuesday. R...
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: Calling out the growing practice of telecom and cable operators using trees to support Internet, Optical Fibre Cable (OFC), broadband and cable TV networks, BJP corporator Adv. Siddharth Sharma has demanded immediate action to make Mumbai’s trees “cable...
Ramabai Ranveer is the sole breadwinner of the family, and works as a domestic cook to support her two daughters
Mumbai: Colleges across Maharashtra should take the lead in organising employment drives and connecting students with industry to create more job opportunities for young people, said Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil. The state government will organise the...
United Nations: Millions of people in Kolkata and Mumbai are at “immediate risk” of losing their homes due to rising sea levels and permanent inundation, a report by the United Nations said. “Rising seas are no longer a distant threat: they are happening now, faster than at any p...
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: At a time Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has appealed to Punekars to celebrate the upcoming 10-day Ganpati festival in a 'traditional and cultural manner' amid the protest in Pune to ban DJs and excessive sound systems causing noise pollut...
A Navi Mumbai-based developer Kamdhenu Realities has acquired a 4-acre prime land parcel from RPG Life Sciences on Thane-Belapur Road in a deal valued at around Rs 150 crore. Plot Near IKEA Offers High Development Potential The transaction, announced on September 1, marks one of ...
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: Dismissed police officer Sachin Waze has asked the court to call for the case diary maintained by the officers of the NIA while probing the Antillia bomb scare case and murder of Thane trader Mansukh Hiran. Waze has on Tuesday moved a plea pleading the ...
Maharashtra's chief minister has deferred enforcement action on loose edible oil sales for one year. Traders must comply with the law after this mandatory transition period ends. Joint committees will guide traditional traders in making necessary business practice changes. The go...
Mumbai: The Airline Pilots’ Association of India (ALPA India) has expressed deep concerns regarding operational risks, flight safety and rising attrition rates among senior flight crews across the Air India Group. The association raised the concerns in an open letter to Tata Trus...
New Delhi, Sep 1: Passenger vehicle dispatches to dealers in India are estimated to have reached a record high for August at around 4.5 lakh units, as leading carmakers reported strong double-digit growth ahead of the crucial festive season. The estimated volume is only around 1....
Mumbai: In a major development in the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) Drug Inspector examination paper leak case, the Property Cell of the Mumbai Crime Branch has arrested accused Rutuja Patil from her residence in Nandurbar. Meanwhile, the police custody of the six ...
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: Maharashtra will organise a statewide ‘Rojgar Mahakumbh’ on September 29, 2026, to provide young people with greater employment opportunities matching their educational qualifications, skills and capabilities, Higher and Technical Education Minister Cha...
In a recent decision, the Bombay High Court has approved bail for Vasai Virar corporator Sitaram Gupta, who stands as a key figure in a 2023 money laundering investigation. Following his arrest two years post-incident and a thirteen-month incarceration, the court highlighted Gupt...
India Women will next face Hong Kong, China in the Women's Asia Cup 2026 on Thursday, September 3. Harmanpreet Kaur's team will take on Hong Kong at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium as they continue their Group A campaign. The match will begin at 8 PM IST. India opened the...
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai Police has arrested 45-year-old Sarfaraz Jummasha Shah from Vadodara, Gujarat, in connection with an alleged Rs 16 crore share fraud involving the illegal dematerialisation and sale of 54,000 bonus shares ...
Mumbai: Western Railway's suburban services faced delays of up to 20-25 minutes on Tuesday, the first day of its revised timetable, due to a combination of trespassing, alarm chain pulling (ACP) incidents and delays caused by the closing of doors in air-conditioned local trains. ...
A senior WR official said the decision to suspend the Borivali halt of two rush-hour trains was aimed at redistributing passenger movement rather than deny connectivity for Borivali residents...
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: A 24-year-old chartered accountant from Antop Hill has approached the police after private photographs of him and his girlfriend were allegedly morphed and uploaded on an Instagram account, nearly seven weeks after his mobile phone went missing. Accordi...
The Navi Mumbai unit of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday caught a 62-year-old RTO agent while allegedly accepting Rs 4,500 as a bribe from a driving school operator in front of the Kharghar RTO office in Panvel. The accused, identified as Vilas Ganpat Sanagar (62), all...
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: The Maharashtra government has granted a one-year exemption from the state Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to prohibit the sale of loose edible oil, following objections from traditional oil traders and concerns over the impact on small bu...
The incident occurred around 3.25pm when the boy, Jash, had come downstairs with his father, Devang Shah, 43, and grandfather after lunch
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: Even after 14 years of having been accused of money laundering, the trial against the self-proclaimed scientist and miracle doctor Munir Khan could not begin. And now, due to Khan’s health condition, the court has decided to defer framing charges agains...
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is awaiting a technical recommendation from IIT Bombay on measures to cover the gaps between the two elevated guideways of the Mumbai Monorail before services can resume, officials said. The g...
With war still raging around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, the SCO is likely to become an alternative mechanism to find peace where Eurasia’s big three—China’s President Xi Jinping, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin—have a chance to shape talks toward...
The stand taken by the MCZMA, whose go-ahead is critical to the project, is a setback for the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA), which submitted its proposal to the coastal authority on August 11...
Uttarakhand: A 15-member media delegation from Uttarakhand is on a study tour to Hyderabad from 31 August to 4 September 2026 as part of the Hyderabad Press Tour organised by PIB Dehradun under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. The delegation is b...
Mumbai, September 1: Riyaa Dalal proved too strong for Dea Mehta and scored an authoritative 11-4, 11-0, 11-0 win in a Girls’ U-13 (round 16) match of the 49th Bombay Gymkhana Maharashtra State Open Squash Tournament 2026, played at the Bombay Gymkhana courts on Tuesday. Ariana A...
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: As the BMC intensifies its crackdown on footpath encroachments and unauthorised hawkers across Mumbai, contracts for vehicles used to transport discarded material have expired. The civic body is now appointing new contractors to deploy vehicles across t...
New Delhi: In a historic milestone for the Indian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Shakti Sharma became the first woman officer (non-medical) in the Indian Defence Forces to attain the rank of Air Vice Marshal (or equivalent). On September 1, she assumed the appointment of Assistant C...
Mumbai: The progress of the Airoli-Katai Naka Freeway and land acquisition for major infrastructure projects were among the key issues discussed during a meeting between the Janrajya and Kalyanphata Traffic Action Committee (JKTAC) and Thane district collector Dr Shrikrishna Panc...
Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik’s Claim ‘Ridiculous’, Says BJP MLA Narendra Mehta
Sonu Sood boarded a flight from Mumbai to Kathmandu at 11 am, accompanied by his Nepalese chauffeur and lieutenant of two decades, Chaudhary. Speaking to The Free Press Journal, the actor said, “Over the next two days, I am scheduled to visit around 5-6 areas that are among the w...
Mumbai, September 1, 2026: Mumbai Suburban Guardian Minister Ashish Shelar has directed authorities to take strict action against the contractor if violations are found in blasting operations being carried out for the construction of the Transport Hub at Dahisar East Octroi Naka....
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday, September 1, visited senior social worker Anna Hazare at Bombay hospital where he is undergoing treatment due to ill health. During the visit, Fadnavis inquired about Hazare’s health and extended his best wishes for his spe...
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