Dipti Singh

A study by the Early Childhood Association (ECA) and Inspirenext Learning Foundation (ILF) has found that body shaming is no longer an isolated form of bullying but an accepted part of student culture. The findings are particularly concerning for Mumbai, where a majority of students reported either experiencing or witnessing appearance-based humiliation.

Mumbai is facing one of its driest starts to the monsoon in recent years, while large parts of Maharashtra are slipping deeper into rainfall deficit territory. Reservoir managers are monitoring water levels, farmers are delaying sowing, and weather experts warn that if the current lull persists, drought-like conditions could emerge across parts of interior Maharashtra before the peak monsoon months.

India's international-school boom is colliding with a classroom crisis: As more schools adopt global curricula and students pursue international qualifications, the supply of teachers trained and certified to deliver them is not keeping pace.

The long-running water-sharing dispute between Navi Mumbai and Panvel has reached the Bombay High Court, with four Panvel Municipal Corporation (PMC) corporators filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging that residents face recurring drinking water shortages because an additional 30 million litres per day (MLD) from the Morbe Dam system is being withheld.

Even as residents of Gorai continue to oppose the proposed relocation of the Airport Authority of India's (AAI) High Frequency (HF) Transmission/Reception (Tx/Rx) Station to their neighbourhood, the Maharashtra government has backed the project. It has called the move a matter of “larger public interest” and urged the Centre to expedite approvals for the shift from Dahisar to Gorai.

It wasn't a government order that weakened Maharashtra's state board ecosystem. It was a decision taken one admission form at a time.

A group of private school managements and teachers' organisations has accused the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) education department of allegedly coercing employees of aided and unaided private schools into carrying out voter roll revision work as Booth Level Officers (BLOs), despite court orders and Election Commission guidelines that, they claim, prohibit such appointments.

Every morning for the past two months, Harish Kumar has walked into his daughter's hospital room hoping for one thing – that his 21-year-old daughter, Harshita, will speak.

As Marathi-medium schools grapple with falling student count, the state education department has launched a state-wide social media campaign with one-minute reels on innovative government schools with the hope of boosting enrolment in vernacular education.

The legal battle over Govandi's controversial SMS Envoclean biomedical waste treatment facility has entered a new phase, with the Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal (NGT) issuing key orders that will shape the long-running dispute.