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In another generous gesture at alumni giving back to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Nakul Aggarwal and Ritesh Arora, co-founders of BrowserStack, have committed to contributing Rs 100 crore to their alma mater to enhance campus infrastructure, particularly pertaining to student residential facilities. The co-founder duo of BrowserStack, a cloud-based web and mobile testing platform, graduated from IIT Bombay in 2006 with BTech degrees in computer science engineering. Their donation will be directed towards two major initiatives – the reconstruction of Hostel 6, where they both resided at IIT Bombay, and Project Evergreen, a comprehensive initiative to modernise Hostels 7, 8 and 21. As per information shared by the institute, their donation is among the largest contributio...

The Bombay High Court recently observed that while encroachments on footpaths in Mumbai or any other city are making the lives of pedestrians “miserable”, problems of unlawful parking or dumping of seized vehicles occupying public roads and open spaces are adding to such “woes”.In doing so, the court directed the traffic police department in Mumbai and across Maharashtra to gather substantial information on such vehicles along with photographs of the ‘plight’ and submit a report on the same. A bench of Justices Girish S Kulkarni and Advait M Sethna passed an order on April 8, on a plea by Marathon Maxima Co. Op. Housing Society from Mulund (West), raising concerns over dumping/ parking/storing of vehicles seized by the police department occupying public roads, streets and/or the surroundin...

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BrowserStack co-founders pledge Rs 100 crore to IIT Bombay, aim to transform hostel facilities at their alma mater

Bombay HC says seized vehicles unlawfully parked on roads, footpaths adding to pedestrians’ woes, seeks state-wide policy