Mumbai: Bombay high court has ordered that a contempt of court notice be issued to a woman for disobeying orders to grant her estranged husband access to their 11-year-old son.Justice Madhav Jamdar on Thursday directed her to remain present on Oct 9, adding: “It is open to the respondent to take steps for purging the…
Mumbai: Across the world, a serious fungal infection—invasive (organ-involving) candidiasis—affects about 15.7 lakh people each year, with fatality rates reaching 63.6%. India bears nearly 30% of this burden, with around 4.7 lakh cases annually. Researchers at Mumbai’s ICMR-National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (ICMR-NIRRCH) have found a way to tackle drug resistance in these…
Thane: The crime branch unit 1 of Thane police cracked a vehicle theft racket operating across the city, arresting one person and recovering seven stolen vehicles worth Rs 2.85 lakh. The accused, identified as Karan Balu Adhav (24), a resident of Jay Bhim Nagar in Jhopdpatti, Kalwa West, was allegedly using a master key to…
Thane: A delegation of goods transport industry representatives from Mumbai and the metropolitan region met Thane’s Deputy Police Commissioner Pankaj Shirsat on Friday, to express strong objections to recent traffic restrictions imposed on goods vehicles within the city and formulate a viable solution.The transporters claimed the decision was taken without consulting them or analysing the…
Thane: Flyers and travellers leaving home in the early hours to board morning flights or catch long-distance trains, including those working late or early morning shifts, are being affected by the newly imposed restrictions. This is owing to the barrage of trucks swarming the arterial road during the six-hour window for truck movement on Ghodbunder…
Thane: Two days after a leopard strayed into a residential society along the dense Manpada locality, a team of animal welfare volunteers launched a search operation on Friday to rule out the possibility of the big cat lurking in the vicinity of the dense residential area and the adjoining huge deserted industrial premises.Activists and forest…
Mumbai: Mumbai University faced mounting criticism after a Buddhist monk and research scholar, Bhadant Vimamsa, was allegedly assaulted and humiliated by the security during his ongoing agitation at the Kalina campus. The monk has been on a 28-day satyagraha, demanding aided status and a dedicated building for the Department of Pali, when he was reportedly…
Mumbai: The Ola and Uber drivers’ union has warned that it will implement a parallel meter, through the OnlyMeter online service, to calculate fares for aggregator cab services as per Cool Cab fares from Sept 25.“Our demand for Rs 22.50 per km minimum fare, similar to Cool Cab fares, remained unfulfilled till Friday,” said union…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the public prosecutor to produce the case diary when hearing a plea by a student to quash an FIR lodged against her in May for a social media post over ‘Operation Sindoor‘ amid the Indo-Pak tensions at the border.The HC, however, orally remarked that a case cannot…
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has cracked the whip on the Tata Projects–Daewoo joint venture, the contractor for the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), after surface distress was spotted on a two-kilometre stretch of the Navi Mumbai–bound carriageway of the Atal Setu. The agency gave the contractor five days to carry out…
