Mumbai: A new artificial intelligence (AI)-based programme will help Indian patients who have a difficult-to-treat cancer find ongoing clinical trials that could best help them. While “clinical trials” are often viewed with suspicion in India, patient support groups in the western world help gravely ill cancer patients access clinical trials. “Clinical trials are the only … Read more
Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar lodged a complaint with Mumbai Police against the “unauthorised” use of his name, photo and voice in misleading advertisements | file photo | Photo Credit: PTI Legendary former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar on Friday lodged a complaint with Mumbai Police against the “unauthorised” use of his name, photo and voice in “misleading … Read more
The SC directed activist Gautam Navlakha to deposit another ₹8 lakh as an expense for making available police personnel for his security while under house arrest in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. | file photo | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Supreme Court on Friday directed activist Gautam Navlakha, who is under house arrest … Read more
‘Waris Punjab De’ chief Amritpal Singh being brought to Dibrugarh Central Jail following his arrest from Punjab’s Moga, in Dibrugarh. | Photo Credit: PTI Amritpal shifted to Assam on Centre’s directive, to be in solitary confinement The Punjab government has decided to shift pro-Khalistan propagator Amritpal Singh to a jail in Assam, more than 2,600 km away … Read more
About 12 lakh to 15 lakh people migrate within Maharashtra, from dry Marathwada to western Maharashtra’s Sangli, Kolhapur, Pune, Satara, Solapur, and Ahmednagar — also known as the sugar belt. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI The Bombay High Court took suo motu cognisance of an article by The Hindu on the financial and sexual exploitation … Read more
The BJP’s Maharashtra unit believes the State’s governance record under Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis may take a while to translate into a feel-good factor. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Central leadership is mulling a proposal from its Maharashtra unit to advance the Assembly elections in the State from October 2024 … Read more
IPS officer and former Maharashtra Intelligence chief Rashmi Shukla. File | Photo Credit: PTI Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Rashmi Shukla has been appointed as the Director-General of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), a government order said on Thursday. SSB is the border-guarding force deployed along Nepal and Bhutan border. Ms. Shukla, a 1988 … Read more
Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray at a press conference at his residence ‘Matoshree’, in Mumbai on February 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday told his supporters that the party’s ‘bow and arrow’ symbol has been stolen and the thief needs to be taught a lesson, a remark aimed at … Read more
Maharashtra Minister for Women and Child Development Mangal Prabhat Lodha speaks to the media in Mumbai on December 14, 2022 on the State’s move to monitor interfaith and inter-caste couples. The Maharashtra Government has constituted a 13-member committee to collect details of couples in interfaith and inter-caste marriages, and the maternal families of the women … Read more
Maharashtra BJP President Chandrakant Patil | Photo Credit: PTI As the decades-old inter-State border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka continues to simmer, Ministers Shambhuraj Desai and Chandrakant Patil will meet pro-Maharashtra activists in Karnataka’s Belagavi on December 3 to discuss the ongoing issue. Mr. Desai on Monday said he and Mr. Patil, both coordinating Ministers … Read more