For IIT-B post-graduate student D. Udayakumar, July 15 will go down as the greatest day of his life. The Indian Cabinet and the finance ministry on Thursday gave the nod to the Indian rupee symbol that he had designed and

In order to avoid a repeat of Wednesday’s tragedy, the ports and transport minister Mr Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil directed the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) chairman to shift the hazardous warehouse from Sewri to a place outside Mumbai. The chlorine gas leaked from one of the cylinders that was stored in the warehouse.

Eight European countries have asked In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) clinics in Mumbai not to offer surrogacy-assisted treatment to their nationals without keeping their consulates in the loop, apparently keeping tricky citizenship issues in mind.

An antiquated cylinder containing highly poisonous chlorine gas started leaking at a Sewree warehouse in the early hours of Wednesday, affecting around 126 people in the vicinity. All 126 have had to be hospitalised.

The leakage of the poisonous chlorine gas from a cylinder inside the Bombay Port Trust premises early on Wednesday morning triggered panic among students of the maritime colleges who were living at a hostel in the vicinity.

The Maharashtra government on Wednesday announced that it would challenge the Bombay high court’s verdict in the Khairlanji killings in the Supreme Court and push for capital punishment for six convicts.

A Jet Airways flight from Chennai came dangerously close to an Air India aircraft over Mumbai after it was asked to descend to 11,000 feet by the ATC but a last minute alert averted a mid-air collision.

Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan on Tuesday demanded that the disputed district of Belgaum be made a Union Territory until the border dispute between Maha-rashtra and Karnataka is resolved. Mr Chavan made the demand while replying to a discussion held in the Legislative Council on the border dispute.

A Jet Airways flight from Chennai came dangerously close to an Air India aircraft over Mumbai after it was asked to descend to 11,000 feet by the ATC but a last minute alert averted a mid-air collision.

Home minister R.R. Patil on Monday told the state legislative Assembly that despite the Supreme Court lifting the state’s ban on James Laine’s book on Chhatrapati Shivaji — Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India — the book’s publishers, Oxford University Press, will not be printing the book in the state. Mr Patil also promised the Assembly that a stringent law would be devised to penalise anyone defaming iconic figures and playing with the sentiments of the people.