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Mumbai: Union minister and Mumbai-North MP Piyush Goyal on Wednesday announced the introduction of mammography units to screen women for cancer as part of BMC’s Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar campaign. The units would be deployed in every slum in his constituency, said Goyal, who also assured the distribution of nutritional food to pregnant women through…

Mumbai: Bombay high court stayed the disqualification of the managing committee of a housing society in Dadar (E) and the appointment of an administrator pending the decision of the divisional joint registrar of cooperative societies on challenges to them.“If the order of disqualification and supersession is allowed to operate in the meantime, the elected body…

Mumbai: An 18-year-old man was arrested by Govt Railway Police (GRP) on Monday for flashing a woman commuter in a Harbour line local between Kurla and Vashi. The accused, Chandrashekhar Yadav, is unemployed, police said. The 29-year-old victim was headed to her workplace at Vashi. She was commuting in the first-class ladies coach of a…

Mumbai: The state’s CET cell has released data on the ongoing admission season for MBA. Currently, as the fourth round of admission is on, 20.3% of seats, or 10,867 seats, are vacant. A total of 50,497 seats are available for management education. To date, 42,176 students were admitted. Source link

Mumbai: This Ganeshotsav, 98% of the idols were immersed in the city’s 298 artificial tanks, according to data shared by BMC.The data showed that 1.84 lakh Ganpati idols were immersed in artificial tanks this year, a sharp jump from 85,306 last year’s festival. In contrast, only 4,385 idols were immersed in natural water bodies, such…

Mumbai: A fracas between bikers and a senior citizen at Dadar TT on Tuesday triggered a fresh outcry against the rising menace of two-wheelers speeding along footpaths.Resident and Doctor Shonali Rathi, who took to social media after the incident, said that footpaths in the locality have turned into “hazard zones” instead of safe pedestrian spaces….

Mumbai: A 52-year-old PhD student, R J Balkhande, has been charged with criminal intimidation and obstructing a govt servant from performing their duty after allegedly attempting to obstruct the convoy of Union Minister of Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju outside the Green Technology auditorium on Mumbai University’s Kalina campus on Monday. Bandra-Kurla Complex…

MUMBAI: Mumbai’s crime branch has arrested Rajendra N. Lodha, 57, along with several others, for allegedly cheating Lodha Developers of Rs 85 crore. The case stems from a complaint lodged by Lodha Developers Ltd., one of India’s largest real estate firms. The company accused its former director, Rajendra Narpatmal Lodha, his son Sahil Lodha, and…

Kalyan: Amid stiff opposition by locals to a proposed cement grinding plant by an Adani Group subsidiary in Kalyan’s Ambivli, a public hearing on Tuesday by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) over the project drew 2,900 oral and written objections.Residents, environmentalists and politicians flagged four main concerns: likely increase in air and sound pollution, contamination…

MUMBAI: The Yash builders have been booked for cheating and criminal breach of trust afterAxis Bank lodged a complaint accusing its proprietor Paras Dedhia for cheating them in connection with the ₹16.49 crore term loan sanctioned for his Deonar project Yash Signature.According to the complaint filed by Shri Dakshis Sumanbhai Balsara, Assistant Vice President at…