Mumbai: A fire broke out at Ganpat Patil Nagar, I C Colony, Borivali (W), at 5:29 pm on Saturday. The blaze, reported from an area of around 500 x 150 sq ft across 8–10 galas, was confined to electric wiring and installations, wooden furniture, eatables, spices, coal stock, bundles of clothes and scrap material. The…
Navi Mumbai: A state-of-the-art microbiology laboratory was inaugurated on the second floor of Maasaheb Meenatai Thackeray Hospital in Nerul, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) on Saturday. The facility was established with a CSR fund of Rs 80 lakh. It will support the clinical management of patients and the study of infectious diseases. Microbiology labs identify…
Navi Mumbai: Two young men were killed and four others were injured after the SUV in which the group of friends from Nerul were travelling along JNPT-Panvel road crashed into the rear end of a container trailer moving ahead on Saturday past midnight.Acting on a complaint by Mohan Chandrashekhar (50), the father of one of…
Kalyan: Tension erupted in a college in Kalyan after a video showing a few students offering namaz inside an empty classroom went viral on social media. Following the incident, members of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal reportedly entered the campus and demanded an apology from the students. The students apologised to the administration…
Mumbai: The courage and presence of mind of a 16-year-old girl, who called the police helpline while facing sexual harassment by a man flashing her in a deserted local train compartment in 2018, resulted in the conviction of the accused by a special POCSO court this week. The judge sentenced the accused, Ganesh Shete, now…
Mumbai: Mumbai airport set a new all-time record for aircraft movements on Nov 21, handling 1,033 flights in 24 hours. This surpassed the previous high of 1,032 movements recorded on Nov 11, 2023.The airport managed 518 arrivals and 515 departures throughout the day, said an Airports Authority of India official. Traffic remained consistently heavy across…
Mumbai: The BMC is carrying out resurfacing of the MSRDC bridges on the Eastern and Western Express Highway and other deteriorated portions of the main carriage way of the highways at a cost of about Rs 136 crores. The resurfacing of the surfaces would be carried out on 12 bridges across the Western and Eastern…
Mumbai: Four men were arrested from a village in Pune by Mumbai crime branch on Friday in connection with the bid on Charkop-based developer Freddy D’Lima’s life. Among those arrested are three bike-borne assailants, one of whom shot D’Lima outside a school on Wednesday. D’Lima is still unconscious and under observation in a Kandivli hospital’s…
Mumbai: Cama Hospital near CST has become the first public hospital in the state to receive permission for egg freezing and sperm bank facilities. The accreditation, which allows Cama Hospital to set up an ART (assisted reproductive technology) bank for the collection, screening, and cryopreservation of donated sperm, eggs, and embryos for infertility treatment, comes…
MUMBAI: A fire broke out on Saturday afternoon at Navrang Compound near the railway tracks in Dharavi, prompting a temporary halt of Harbour line services towards CSMT.The blaze, confined to a ground-plus-one hutment structure, was first reported to the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) at 12:29 pm. The brigade declared a Level-I fire call at 12:32…
