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Mumbai: Sixty-six years ago, when a young Mumbai pilot, Mohini Shroff harboured a dream of flying for India, she was told that she could not even apply for it. Last weekend, the world saluted that pioneering aviatrix with ‘The Ninety-Nines, Inc.’s 2026 Award of Achievements of a lifetime. Counted among India’s earliest women pilots and the first female pilot from the minority Sindhi community, Mohini Shroff, 90, was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award-2026 by the prestigious Ninety-Nines...

Mumbai: Setting the ball rolling for a legal battle, the Shiv Sena (UBT) has shot off missives to each of the six MPs who have announced allegiance to the Shiv Sena led by Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde pointing that ‘no merger’ has been permitted as claimed. Shiv Sena (UBT) Parliamentary Party (Lok Sabha) Leader and Mumbai South MP Arvind Sawant, has written the letters to six MPs - copies of which were also sent to Speaker Om Birla – which were released today, days ahead of the...

Mumbai: The simmering political storm over the Mahayuti government’s ‘Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladi Bahin Yojana’ intensified with the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) taking the recent CAG Report’s cautionary signals on state finances, to question if the state regime is a ‘gang of bandits’. State Congress President Harshwardhan Sapkal, Nationalist Congress Party (SP) National Spokesperson Clyde Crasto and Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut attacking the government over the CAG revelations pointing to Rs...