Professor Madhav Gadgil: The man who taught India to listen to the mountains Prof. Madhav Gadgil (1942–2026) Mumbai: With the passing of Professor Madhav Gadgil, India has lost more than a world-class ecologist; it has lost its environmental conscience. A man who bridged the ivory towers of Harvard and the rugged rain-shadow forests of the Western Ghats, Gadgil spent his life proving that science is meaningless if it does not serve the soil and the people who toil upon it. Bo

Mumbai/Pune : Fighter pilot-turned-politician Suresh S. Kalmadi and enfant-terrible of Pune politics – who once chucked a shoe (1977) at the then Prime Minister Morarji Desai – passed away early today following a prolonged illness, party leaders said.   He was 82 and breathed his last at a hospital around 3.30 am. He is survived by his wife Meera, a son, a daughter and other relatives. His body was kept for people to pay their last respects at Kalmadi House and later cremated

Veteran Congress leader and former union home minister Shivraj Patil Chakurkar, a towering figure in national politics for over six decades, passed away on Friday morning at 6.05 am at his residence, ‘Devghar,’ in Latur at the age of 91. Known as a close confidant of the Gandhi family, Shivraj Patil Chakurkar stood apart in national politics for one rare quality: absolute integrity. In a political career spanning 60 years, he carried no allegations, no scandals, and no hint o