India’s Avinash Sable smashed a 30-year-old record of Bahadur Prasad in 5000m and a new national record with a timing of 13:25.65 at the Sound Running Track meet in San Juan Capistrano, USA. The 27-year-old from Maharashtra broke the old record of 13:29.70 set by Bahadur Prasad in 1992. ...

Renowned Film Director Shekhar Kapoor has inaugurated National Seminar titled 'Indian Cinema and Soft Power' in Mumbai Organized by: Indian Council for Cultural Relations (lCCR). Key topics: Cinematic colonialism, Indian Cinema as a Vehicle of spreading ...

Maharashtra Cabinet has given its approval for the ‘Maharashtra Gene Bank’ in order to conserve genetic resources in Maharashtra including marine diversity, seeds of local crops, and animal diversity. The government also sanctioned Rs 172.39 crore for implementing the action plan for the next ...

Maharashtra became the first state in India to develop a website-based Migration Tracking System (MTS) application to track the movement of migrant workers through individual unique identity numbers. The MTS project is envisaged to maintain the continuity of the ...

The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly passed a bill to make the use of the Marathi language mandatory in official works of local authorities. The Maharashtra Official Language Act, 1964, did not make compulsory to use Marathi for the local authorities to use Marathi ...

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will launch electric vehicle (EV) cell to bring together government officials, e-mobility experts and representatives from the electric vehicle industry. It will assist policy makers in the promotion of electric vehicles, build ...

Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar inaugurated India’s first Biosafety level-3 containment mobile laboratory in Nashik, Maharashtra. The mobile laboratory has been set up to investigate newly emerging and re-emerging viral infections that are highly ...

Fisdom, a wealth-tech company, has joined hands with Bank of Maharashtra, to offer wealth management products and services to over 29 mn customers of the bank. This partnership is to distribute the wealth products and services through the bank’s network of more than 2,000 ...

The Reserve Bank of India cancelled the licence of Nashik-based Independence Co-operative Bank Ltd and began the process for winding it up following the erosion of the bank's capital. The bank has stopped operation from the close of business on February 3, putting depositors of the bank in ...

Bhagat Singh Koshyari launched a book on the life of tribal hero Birsa Munda titled ‘Legend of Birsa Munda’. The book is written by BJP leader and author Tuhin A. Sinha and co-authored by Ankita Verma. The new book is about the lesser-known contribution of Birsa Munda to India’s freedom struggle.