NEW DELHI: As many as forty-four passengers had a narrow escape after a private luxury bus caught fire on the Mumbai-Goa highway near Kashedi tunnel in Maharashtra’s Raigad district around 2am on Sunday, police said. The bus was travelling from Mumbai to Malvan in Sindhudurg when one of its tyres burst near Poladpur, triggering a…
Mumbai: “Medicine has lost its human touch,” lamented Dr Farokh Udwadia while delivering the chief guest’s address at a function to commemorate the second anniversary of another stalwart, Dr Sultan Pradhan’s hospital, Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Head & Neck Cancer Institute of India (HNCI) at Mazagon, on Saturday afternoon.The audience listened in pin-drop silence to the…
Mumbai: A Nepali national working as a security guard at a highrise has been arrested by Bangur Nagar Police for a cybercrime where a loan was fraudulently taken online against a woman’s fixed deposits and the money withdrawn. Police said the accused splurged most of the Rs 2.79 lakh that he withdrew in playing rummy….
Even as the recent deluge turned most of MMR into a wetland, a community-led campaign in Vasai (once home to actual wetlands) has been steadily working to revive a centuries-old system of water bodies in a bid to improve the region’s ecological health, restore its biodiversity and, most crucially, mitigate floods. These freshwater ponds, or…
MUMBAI: A three-year-old boy was found murdered in the lavatory of a long-distance train at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) early on Saturday, sparking shockwaves. Police said the child, Akash alias Aarav Shah, had gone missing from his home in Surat on Aug 21. Subsequently, his parents lodged a complaint of kidnapping against the boy’s 26-year-old…
Mumbai: Bombay high court has restrained the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) and BMC from entertaining complaints and interference from BJP MLA Parag Alavani and a rival developer in a slum rehabilitation scheme in Vile Parle (E), reports Rosy Sequeira.“It would indeed reflect a most sorry state of affairs when any statutory authority abdicates its statutory…
Mumbai: Two trends are unfolding in the city today, and the gap between them is as wide as the Mithi river in full spate.On the one hand, the BMC is spending a lot of money on reducing the impact of flooding, from river rejuvenation and floodwater pumps to hazard mapping and private weather services. The…
Thane: Thane Municipal Corporation’s (TMC) administration has prepared a draft ward restructuring plan, which was submitted to the Urban Development Department on Tuesday.According to the draft plan, Thane will have four representatives each in 32 wards and three representatives in one ward. Based on 2017 municipal election pattern, a new ward structure has been created…
Mumbai: Doctors in the city are reporting a sizeable increase in the number of lower respiratory infections among children, with many needing hospitalisation.“Most of these cases are due to the highly contagious respiratory syncytial virus (RSV),” said paediatric pulmonologist Dr Indu Khosla. SRCC Children’s Hospital in Haji Ali had nine children in the paediatric intensive…
Mumbai: Konkan division information commissioner Shekhar Channe has imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the Vashi-based Jhunjhunwala College for its failure to provide information to the applicant under the RTI Act.Asrar Ahmed Siddiqui, on Jan 1, 2017, sought information under RTI on the structural audit of Motilal Jhunjhunwala College, Navi Mumbai. Siddiqui submitted another…
