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Mumbaicha Raja 2026 Idol Balances On One Leg In Ganesh Galli
The Lalbaug Sarvajanik Utsav Mandal unveiled its idol on Sunday, a day after Lalbaugcha Raja's own reveal set the city's Ganpati season in motion.
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Mumbai's Ganpati Idols Now Come With Anime Faces And Reels
Across Mumbai this Ganeshotsav, idol-makers are blending anime references, AI-generated designs and Instagram strategy into a festival that used to run on family craft and word of mouth alone.
13 Sept 20263 min
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Mumbai Ganesh Mandals Turn Pandals Into Shelters For Strays This Year
Mumbai's Ganeshotsav pandals are opening their doors to strays this year, with a Colaba mandal casting its idol as Kaalbhairav and a Kandivali mandal running vaccination and microchipping camps for street dogs.
11 Sept 20262 min
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Mumbai's Tallest Ganpati Idol Reignites Fight Over Height Caps
Mumbai's Ganeshotsav brings its tallest idol yet at 42 feet, but three tall-idol collapses during arrival processions this year, two of them fatal, have renewed calls for the state to cap idol height for good.
11 Sept 20262 min
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Uttar Pradesh Widens Free PM e-Vidya Digital Learning Access
Uttar Pradesh's Yogi government has expanded the PM e-Vidya platform, offering free digital study resources to students and teachers statewide through a single app on Android and iOS.
11 Sept 20262 min
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GCL Title Race Turns Into A Three-Way Dead Heat In Bengaluru
The Global Chess League's group stage in Bengaluru has boiled down to a virtual three-way tie, with Pipers, American Gambits and Grandmasters all on 15 match points heading into the final two rounds.
11 Sept 20262 min
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Assam Forest Team Frees Elephant From Tyre Stuck On Neck
A wild elephant in Assam's Golaghat district was rescued after a tractor tyre got jammed around its neck, in an operation involving Kaziranga's wildlife rehabilitation centre, forest officials and local villagers.
11 Sept 20262 min
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Madhya Pradesh Dairy Farmers Escalate Village-Level Price Protest
Dairy farmers across Indore district submitted memoranda at more than fifty Sanchi milk cooperative societies on Thursday, demanding higher prices, pending bonuses and warning of an intensified agitation ahead.
11 Sept 20262 min
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Indore's Devlalikar Kala Veethika Gets ₹75 Lakh Facelift Before Its Centenary
Indore's Devlalikar Kala Veethika, the city's oldest art institution, is getting a ₹75 lakh renovation ahead of its 2027 centenary, with the original 1927 building's architecture staying untouched.
10 Sept 20262 min
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NGT Survey Finds Road And Restaurants Choking Bhopal's Kaliasot Lake Zone
Day five of the Bhoj Wetland ground-truthing survey in Bhopal uncovered a road, restaurants and permanent structures encroaching on the Kaliasot water-spread area, alongside fresh boundary markers for land plotting.
10 Sept 20262 min
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Hyderabad's Lee-Chee Ka Raja Idol Uses 3.83 Lakh Diamonds
A Hyderabad Ganesh idol nicknamed Lee-Chee Ka Raja drew huge crowds on its arrival, decked in 24K gold and reportedly 3.83 lakh American diamonds, blending Lalbaugcha Raja's form with Tirupati Balaji styling.
10 Sept 20262 min
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MSRTC Sets Up Helpline For NCMC Travel Card Glitches
MSRTC has launched a dedicated helpline for passengers struggling with NCMC card activation, recharge and balance checks, as the state transport body rolls out the digital ticketing system across Maharashtra.
10 Sept 20262 min
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Thane Tribunal Awards ₹5.17 Lakh To Farmer Hit By ST Bus
A Thane tribunal has ordered MSRTC to pay ₹5.17 lakh with 9% interest to a farmer left permanently disabled after an ST bus rammed his motorcycle in 2019, rejecting the corporation's claim of shared blame.
10 Sept 20262 min
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Madhya Pradesh Cooperative Staff Booked In ₹13.34 Lakh Moong Scam
Three cooperative society employees in Madhya Pradesh's Raisen district face an FIR after the EOW found they bought cheap moong pulse and resold it to the government at inflated MSP rates, netting ₹13.34 lakh.
10 Sept 20262 min
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Apple Watch Series 12 Adds Readiness Score And Nonstop Heart Tracking
Apple's new Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 bring a readiness score and background heart-rate readings every five seconds, alongside far more frequent HRV sampling, closing the gap with dedicated wearables like Oura.
9 Sept 20262 min
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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Arrives With A20 Chip And Variable Aperture
Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and a passport-sized foldable called iPhone Duo at its Cupertino event, alongside a reworked Siri, a 2-nanometer chip and faster charging.
9 Sept 20262 min
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Uttar Pradesh Orders Daily Anti-Drug Pledge In All Colleges
The Uttar Pradesh government has rolled out a campus-wide anti-drug plan for universities, with daily pledges, weekly lectures, hostel checks and nodal officers meant to make de-addiction part of student life rather than a one-off event.
9 Sept 20262 min
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Vijay Mallya Says UK Law Bars Him From Returning To India
Vijay Mallya has denied fleeing India, claiming UK residency rules since 1992 legally prevent his travel, even as the Bombay High Court presses him to clarify his stance on returning to face trial.
9 Sept 20262 min
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Shashank And Padma Patil Launch Two Books In Mumbai
Shashank Patil's Rewired! and Padma Shashank Patil's Walk With Me Across the World were launched together in Mumbai on September 5, drawing former Times Network chief M.K. Anand among the guests.
9 Sept 20262 min
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Eight Arrested Over Rajasthan High Court Building Scam In Jodhpur
Jodhpur Police have arrested eight people, including former RSRDC officials and two contractors, over alleged irregularities in constructing the Rajasthan High Court's main bench building, years after cracks and fires were reported at the site.
9 Sept 20262 min
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IIT Indore Team Shows AI Can Learn The Physics Of Chaos
IIT Indore researchers used a technique called Reservoir Computing to show AI models can learn the physical rules behind sudden system collapses, not just replicate past data, a step toward more trustworthy AI.
9 Sept 20262 min
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Maharashtra Waives Highway Tolls For Konkan-Bound Ganeshotsav Devotees
Maharashtra's PWD has waived tolls on the Mumbai-Goa highway, Atal Setu and other Konkan routes for Ganeshotsav 2026, covering private vehicles and MSRTC buses from September 11 to 27, with return journeys included.
9 Sept 20262 min
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Mumbai Rail's Shareable Season Ticket Needs Photo And QR Now
Mumbai's RailOne app now lets one user book season tickets for up to five others, but the Centre for Railway Information Systems says only tickets carrying a passenger photo and readable QR code will pass inspection.
9 Sept 20262 min
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Mumbai Court Reserves Order On Mehul Choksi Fugitive Case
A Mumbai special court has reserved its order on the Enforcement Directorate's long-pending plea to declare Mehul Choksi a fugitive economic offender, refusing his lawyer's request for one more adjournment.
9 Sept 20262 min
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Maharashtra Forms Task Force To Curb Female Foeticide
Maharashtra has set up a state task force, chaired by Neelam Gorhe, to check illegal sex-selective abortions and sonography violations, with surprise inspections and quarterly reports over a three-year tenure.
9 Sept 20262 min
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Panvel Civic Body Rushes Pothole Repairs Before Ganeshotsav Rush
Panvel Municipal Corporation has stepped up pothole repairs ahead of Ganeshotsav, targeting Kalamboli's Sector 3 and other high-traffic stretches to keep roads safe as devotee crowds swell across the city.
8 Sept 20261 min
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Maharashtra Tourism Board Puts Five-Star Tadoba Resort Out To Tender
MTDC has issued a request for proposals to empanel an independent expert to oversee upgrades at five resorts, including a new five-star property at Tadoba, under public-private concessions running 30 to 60 years.
8 Sept 20262 min
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Two Cousins Drown At Mhow's Lodhiya Kund Waterfall
Two cousins from Indore drowned at the notorious Lodhiya Kund waterfall near Mhow after a weekend trek turned into a swim that went wrong, police said, reviving concerns about the spot's hidden currents.
8 Sept 20262 min
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Thane Residents Form Human Chain To Block Ring Metro Plan
Thane residents staged a second consecutive Sunday protest against the proposed Integral Ring Metro, forming a human chain on Pokhran Road over tree felling, displacement and traffic fears, with activists threatening court action.
7 Sept 20262 min
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DCP Nameplate Car Filmed Zigzagging Through Indore, Hitting Two
A car bearing a DCP nameplate was filmed swerving across an Indore road and hitting a child on a bicycle and an elderly scooter rider, both of whom escaped serious injury. Police have launched an inquiry.
7 Sept 20262 min