Mumbai: It’s 1 pm at the Goethe-Institut in Mumbai, and students of the German language course begin filing into their classroom. In this small group of around 15, there is a doctor, a chef, a neuroscientist, a chemical engineer and an IT professional — all united by a single goal: to one day live, study…
Mumbai: A 36-year-old woman was arrested on Dec 11 by Goregaon police for allegedly blackmailing and extorting Rs 1.5 crore from a prominent city lawyer. She is in police custody and is being interrogated in connection with the extortion case. Investigators have identified four family members as co-conspirators and launched a special operation to arrest…
Mumbai: Daily commuters at Dadar on the Western Railway (WR)are set to get relief from persistent congestion, with an elevated deck planned to improve passenger circulation at one of Mumbai’s busiest suburban stations. The project aims to ease crowding on existing foot overbridges (FOBs) and ensure smoother movement during peak hours. Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation…
Navi Mumbai: A father-son duo travelling in a sedan along the Mumbai-Goa highway while returning from Mumbai airport to reach their home in Goregaon in Raigad were killed and the man’s younger son and the driver were injured after the sedan crashed into the rear end of a container trailer that slowed down at a…
Navi Mumbai: A c-arm machine is direly needed at the sub district hospital-Panvel but to no avail. The equipment required for the treatment of bone injured persons, mostly accident victims. The need grew in view of the rising mishaps reported on five highways and the Mumbai-Pune expressway.The machine is a mobile medical x-ray device and…
Navi Mumbai: A five-bedroom penthouse in Alibaug reportedly fetched a record Rs 33.5 crore. The penthouse, located in the Emperor’s Palace project and spanning 9,218 square feet, was bought by R K Behera and S K Behera of RSB Group. Real estate experts said for more than 20 years, Alibaug has served as a favoured…
Mumbai: A senior citizen couple were arrested by Gorai police at midnight on Friday for allegedly stabbing a shopowner to death over a dispute over a shop space at Golden Pagoda in the Gorai police station area. The accused, 65-year-old Rolan Miranda and his wife, Lizbert, were booked for murder and remanded in police custody.The…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court, in an order released on Friday, granted five days’ parole to a March 12, 1993, serial bomb blasts case convict, Shahnawaz Qureshi. One of the bomb planters at Mumbai’s Plaza Cinema, Qureshi was allowed to attend to his ailing wife’s treatment from Dec 15-19.Qureshi was given a death sentence by…
Mumbai: The BMC has recently issued a stop-work notice to Prestige Towers at Mahalaxmi for not adhering to pollution mitigation guidelines. The notice also lists the violations with regard to implementation of the air pollution mitigation guidelines.As per the notice issued by the BMC G-South ward to Prestige Tower ‘B’ Shakti Mill lane on November…
Mumbai: It is raining seats for postgraduate medical aspirants in the state. Over 400 seats have been added this year for MD/MS aspirants, many of which are in sought-after clinical courses too. Most seats to get approval from the National Medical Commission (NMC), however, are in private and deemed colleges, and only a few have…
