Mumbai: Actor Nazima, who played the quintessential sister and best friend to several heroes and heroines in the 1960s and ’70s, passed away at age 77 Monday. She lived in Dadar with her two sons.Born Mehrunnisa in Nashik on March 25, 1948, Nazima hailed from a family of female actors including aunt Husn Bano who…
Mumbai: Nearly 200 residents and activists protested in Cheetah Camp and Mankhurd on Monday against BMC’s plan to privatise two peripheral hospitals and key health services in five others. A total of 20 participants also sat on a hunger strike near Maharashtra Nagar Maternity Home, demanding stronger public health infrastructure.The protest, the second in recent…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut has written to Union home minister Amit Shah asking where former vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar is. Raut said before knocking on the doors of the SC, he’s asking Shah for Dhankhar’s whereabouts, safety, and health.“What exactly has happened to our vice president? Where is he? How is his…
Mumbai: The MSRTC bus depot at Nancy colony in Borivali has huge potholes this monsoon, causing inconvenience not just to passengers but also to drivers who find it difficult to manoeuvre the buses.Sources in MSRTC admitted that the depot was in bad shape and needed an overhaul. The bus corporation had in the past floated…
Mumbai: Two men were arrested by Samta Nagar Police after they abducted a 27-year-old man from Kandivali, assaulted him and demanded a ransom of Rs 1 lakh from his family. The victim, Shubham Sahu, was rescued by the police and his health is stable.The incident occurred on Aug 9 when Sahu, a medical delivery person…
Palghar: A 49-year-old woman’s visit to her former school ended in a tragedy after she suffered severe injuries in a tree fall incident there and died on the way to hospital as the ambulance ferrying her got stuck in a traffic jam for several hours on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway (NH-48) in Palghar district recently. “She…
Navi Mumbai: The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of Crime Branch Unit-2, Panvel, arrested a 35-year-old woman operating a prostitution racket at a spa in Ulwe under the guise of a massage parlour. The sex trade was busted on Aug 8 by sending a decoy customer, and the police rescued four women masseuses from the flesh…
Rajendra Yadav, a police constable, was admitted on April 30, 2015, to National Heart Institute in Delhi for acute chest pain. After an angiography, his wife and her brother-in-law were informed that there was significant coronary blockage which required immediate intervention. A coronary procedure performed on April 5, 2015, but the patient’s condition worsened rapidly….
Mumbai: Panic buttons in most aggregator cabs, installed for women passengers’ safety, “did not result in any assistance”, alleged Maharashtra Kamgar Sabha president Keshav Nana Kshirsagar, who led the strike of aggregator cab drivers at Azad Maidan recently.He stated that there are approximately eight lakh cabs operating in the state, including services such as Ola,…
MUMBAI: A 11-year-old boy fell to his death from a Dahi Handi pyramid while practising for the upcoming Janmashtami festival at Dahisar East late Sunday. Dahisar Police said the incident occurred in the Dharakhadi area. Police have registered an FIR against the organiser of the volunteer group of which the child was a part. The…
