Mumbai: The BMC has floated a tender worth Rs 2,200 crore inviting bids for construction of a vehicular bridge and an elevated road in Malad, along with a new traffic arm to connect Mumbai Coastal Road with Marve Road.Additional municipal commissioner (Projects) Abhijit Bangar said the bridge from Lagoon Road to Infiniti Mall will help…
Navi Mumbai: The unidentified body found in the creek near Kalamboli is of missing constable Somnath Phapale. The DNA test report obtained by Kalamboli police from Kalina Forensic Science Laboratory (KFSL) confirmed that the DNA matches with his biological parents. The body was handed over to Phapale’s parents on Friday for conducting final rites at…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Tuesday permitted a woman to withdraw her plea for custody of 16 frozen embryos. Her lawyers said she would be approaching the National Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Board in New Delhi instead.The board is set up under the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act of 2021, which has powers…
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday permitted a woman to withdraw her plea for custody of 16 frozen embryos. Her lawyers said she would be approaching the National Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and Surrogacy Board in New Delhi instead.The board is set up under the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act of 2021, which has…
Puja Khedkar, Mother Manorama (L-R) NAVI MUMBAI: Manorama Khedkar, the mother of dismissed IAS officer Puja Khedkar, against whom an FIR was registered by Rabale police at Chatushrungi police station, Pune, for preventing the police from entering her bungalow to rescue the truck helper kidnapped by her husband and chauffeur after a road rage incident…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Tuesday directed the state govt to make safety information of all schools in Maharashtra accessible to the public by Oct 9. Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Sandesh Patil were hearing a suo motu PIL taken up after the sexual assault of two minors in a Badlapur school in Aug 2024.On…
Mumbai: Calling it the one of the worst flood disasters for farmland in Maharashtra, state agriculture minister Dattareya Bharne said the deluge over the last month destroyed over 1.5 crore acres of crops as per initial estimates. CM Devendra Fadnavis said the cabinet has decided to implement all concessions extended when there is a scarcity…
Mumbai: As the monsoon threat looms over the Dussehra rallies of the Shiv Sena and the Shiv Sena (UBT), Dy CM Eknath Shinde on Tuesday said he would ask workers from flood-affected areas not to come for the Dussehra rally in Mumbai. He said that they should instead help flood victims in their area, and…
Navi Mumbai: The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), an initiative launched by the Central govt, is enhancing healthcare services for citizens through digitalisation, with the ‘Abha’ app proving highly beneficial. NMMC’s Vashi First Referral Unit (FRU) is the only civic-body run hospital in the state selected for the ABDM initiative. The Vashi hospital received an…
Mumbai: The death toll in the Kandivli catering unit gas leak fire rose to six on Tuesday after two more women — Durga Gupta, 35, and Janki Gupta, 43 — succumbed to their injuries in hospital. The business’s owner, Shivani Gandhi, died a day earlier. The lone survivor of the tragedy is a 55-year-old man,…
