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Maharashtra Proposes Mandatory Marathi Knowledge for Cab Drivers
The Maharashtra government has proposed changes to regulations requiring cab drivers to possess practical knowledge of the Marathi language. Non-compliance could result in suspension or revocation of driving licences, officials stated. State Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik announced on Wednesday that the August 15 deadline for autorickshaw and taxi drivers to learn Marathi will not be...
Kerala High Court Quashes Compensation Award in Defamation Case Over Rajasthan Ambulance Scam
The Kerala High Court has overturned an order directing payment of five lakh rupees in compensation in a defamation lawsuit brought by Ravi Krishna, son of Congress leader and former Union Minister Vayalar Ravi, against BJP leader Kirit Somaiya. The case stems from statements made about the Rajasthan ambulance scam in 2010. A Division Bench...
Bombay High Court Faults FDA Approach in Cadila Drug Orders
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday provided relief to Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd and criticized the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration for its stop-sale directives against the company. The court stated that acting without prior inquiry follows rules of the Wild West rather than legal standards. After the court’s remarks, the Maharashtra FDA consented to withdraw...
Private Trainer Plane Veers Off Runway at Baramati Airstrip Without Casualties
A training aircraft from a private aviation academy left the runway during drills at Baramati airstrip in Maharashtra’s Pune district on Sunday afternoon, police reported. The incident took place around 12:30 p.m. with no injuries recorded. This follows a January crash at the same site involving a charter plane that killed all five aboard, including...
Earthquake of 4.3 Magnitude Strikes Nashik District in Maharashtra, Causing Minor Cracks
An earthquake measuring 4.3 struck Nashik district in Maharashtra on Saturday night, followed by aftershocks that caused cracks in some houses, officials said on Sunday. No loss of life was reported. The main quake occurred at 10 pm on Saturday, with a 3.3 magnitude tremor recorded at 5.33 am on Sunday by the National Centre...
Minor Earthquake Triggers Tremors and Cracks in Houses in Nashik, Maharashtra
A mild earthquake and subsequent tremors struck Maharashtra’s Nashik district, leading to cracks in houses in several areas, officials reported on Sunday, August 9, 2026. No loss of life occurred. The National Centre for Seismology recorded a 4.3 magnitude quake at 10 p.m. on Saturday, August 8, followed by a 3.3 magnitude tremor at 5:33...
Viral Video Captures Activist Confronting Police Officer at Residence
A video of a confrontation between Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and a police officer circulated widely on social media on Friday. The footage shows Dipke, who organized student protests at Jantar Mantar regarding the NEET paper leak, speaking with a police sub-inspector assigned to security at his home in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra. Dipke...
Bombay High Court Bails Shiv Sena Corporator in Hospital Assault Case, Speeds Up Trial
The Bombay High Court on Friday approved bail for Shiv Sena corporator Ramesh Mhatre, charged with assaulting doctors at a civic hospital in Maharashtra’s Thane area. The court also ordered the trial to proceed quickly and finish within a set period. Bail was likewise approved for four other individuals in the assault incident that caused...
Bombay High Court Convicts Tarun Tejpal in 2013 Sexual Assault Case
The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court convicted Tarun Tejpal, founder of Tehelka, on Thursday in a 2013 sexual assault case. The ruling overturned a 2021 acquittal by a Goa trial court. The incident occurred in November 2013 when a Tehelka staff member alleged Tejpal assaulted her in an elevator at a Goa resort...
Telangana Chief Minister Seeks Centre’s Help to Raise Tummidihatti Barrage Height
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has urged the central government to persuade Maharashtra to permit an increase in the height of the Tummidihatti barrage on the Pranahita river. He stated that this change would not cause any submergence problems for the neighbouring state. Accompanied by Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, the Chief Minister...
Raj Thackeray Questions Actors’ Move to Dubai Despite Backing Modi
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray criticized actors and industrialists for living in Dubai while publicly praising India’s progress under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At an event held by the party’s student wing in Mumbai, Thackeray referred to Bollywood actors Vivek Oberoi and R Madhavan, both of whom have voiced support for Modi in the...
Daily Briefing: Supreme Court Review, Student Protests and Pune Flood Rescue
Police urged vehicle owners to remove cars stranded on a flooded riverside road near the PMC headquarters in Pune after water released from the Khadakwasla Dam submerged the stretch due to continuous rainfall. Questions about the independence of public institutions returned to focus today, alongside political reactions to student protests across the country. The Supreme...
Six Killed in Four-Storey Building Collapse in Bhiwandi
At least six people died when a four-storey residential building collapsed late Thursday night in Bhiwandi, Maharashtra. Officials reported that several others may remain trapped under the debris. The structure had 48 rooms and fell around 11:30 pm. Municipal authorities had previously declared it unsafe, and repair work was in progress at the time. Residents...
Students in Rajasthan Demand Additional Teachers During Campus Protest
A video shared online shows students at a school in Rajasthan’s Jalore district protesting the shortage of teachers. The footage features a teenage girl in uniform explaining that the school has lacked second-grade teachers for a year and has only two first-grade instructors, one for history and one for Hindi. She notes that the history...
Bombay High Court Lifts FDA Order Suspending Navi Mumbai Hotel License Over Hygiene Findings
The Bombay High Court has advised the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration to take a practical view, noting that conditions in India require realism, and overturned its decision to suspend the operating license of a four-star hotel in Navi Mumbai for hygiene reasons. The court granted relief to the establishment after a bench led by...
BJP MP Received Rs 4.20 Lakh Subsidy for Lemon Farm, Centre Tells Lok Sabha
The government told Lok Sabha on Tuesday that Lumbaram Choudhary, a BJP MP from Jalore in Rajasthan, is another serving parliamentarian who obtained financial support under a central horticulture scheme in the past five years, besides Union Minister Bhagirath Choudhary. Records indicate that Lumbaram received Rs 4.20 lakh as subsidy to cultivate lemons on his...
Bombay High Court Allows Gadkari to Sue Platforms Over Deepfake Videos on Fuel Rules
Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari may pursue a civil case against Meta Platforms, X Corp, Google LLC and others regarding allegedly defamatory AI-generated deepfake videos and altered digital material tied to the ethanol-blended fuel debate, the Bombay High Court decided on Monday. The case requests removal of content that Gadkari claims wrongly links him to...
Goa Police Register FIR Over Protest Placard
Goa Police have filed an FIR against unidentified backers of CJP and demonstrators for unlawful assembly and staging the event without prior state approval. On Saturday evening officers detained a man at Azad Maidan in Panaji after he displayed a placard reading “Free Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Bhima Koregaon 16”. The gathering aimed to express...
Suspect in Maharashtra TET Paper Leak Case Detained in Bihar
Maharashtra authorities have detained Bijendra Gupta, identified as the main suspect in the Teacher Eligibility Test paper leak incident, from Bihar. A second individual was also taken into custody with him, though the specific district remains undisclosed. Bhiwandi police handled the arrest, after which Gupta was transported to Pune Airport for transfer to Bhiwandi. Investigators...
Mumbai Police Orders Probe Into Video of Officer Threatening Student Protesters
Mumbai Police has launched an inquiry after a video went viral showing a police driver warning detained student protesters that he would file false drug cases against them if they resumed demonstrations. The footage appears to have been recorded by the students while inside a police van following their detention on Wednesday. In the clip,...
Advanced Electrification System Installed on Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor
The Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor is receiving an advanced overhead traction system, among the most sophisticated electrification technologies used globally for high-speed railways, according to the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited on Wednesday. The 2×25 kV system, introduced in India for the first time, is designed to deliver stable power for trains running at...
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India’s Changing Global Role: Why Strategic Independence Matters More Than Ever
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India’s research retraction surge sparks call for reform
In the expansion of India’s scientific footprint lies an uncomfortable truth: the country now ranks third globally for life science research papers retracted from the record, according to a comprehensive…
Indian Science and Technology landscape: a leap for a better future
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