Rohit Pawar, Eknath Shinde MUMBAI: Rohit Pawar has claimed that a VSR flight with then CM Eknath Shinde was forced to turn back from Iraq to Bahrain as it did not have prior permission to fly over Iraq airspace during his trip to the Davos summit in 2023.“The aircraft was treated as an unidentified aircraft…
A 24-year-old man was tragically killed in a hit-and-run on Palm Beach Road near Sanpada, his head severed due to the severe impact (Representative image) NAVI MUMBAI: A 24-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run incident on Palm Beach road near Sanpada on Tuesday. The impact of the crash was so severe that the man…
Veteran BJP leader Vinod Tawde is set to return to electoral politics after a seven-year hiatus, nominated for a Rajya Sabha seat from Maharashtra MUMBAI: After seven years, state BJP politician Vinod Tawde is all set to return to electoral politics. Tawde, who found himself out of Maharashtra politics in 2019 and was accommodated as…
Mumbai: Police, probing last month’s fatal Metro Line 4 concrete parapet collapse in Mulund, have arrested welder Ram Ashish from a village in Uttar Pradesh, taking the total number of arrests in the case to six. Project consultant Sai Suresh is still at large. Ram Ashish was produced before a local court, which remanded him…
Thane: Police on Wednesday arrested Dr Amol Patil, director of Malti IVF Centre in Nashik, in connection with the illegal extraction and sale of human eggs from economically vulnerable women in Badlapur even as Maharashtra legislative council ordered a multi-pronged crackdown with a district-level committee, comprising the superintendent of police and civil surgeon, set to…
Mumbai: The incidence of breast cancer in India more than doubled between 1990 and 2023, according to an 204-country study that estimates another huge increase in cases by 2050 if “six modifiable risk factors” are not tackled.The Global Burden of Disease Study Breast Cancer Collaborators, published in ‘The Lancet Oncology’, said the incidence rate in…
Mumbai: Transporters across Maharashtra announced an indefinite strike of trucks, tempos, tourist and school buses, taxis, private cabs and autorickshaws from Thursday midnight, escalating a protest centred on alleged misuse of the e-challan system and what they called arbitrary penalties. Talks with transport commissioner Rajesh Narvekar on Wednesday evening failed, and “we will go ahead…
Mumbai: Peak power demand increased across Maharashtra to over 29,000 MW following a rise in temperature in several districts and cities, including Mumbai.Peak power demand in Mumbai was close to 3,400 MW, of which Tata Power supplied close to 800 MW through embedded generation and Adani supplied close to 500 MW from its generation, while…
Mumbai: A new study from the Tata Memorial Centre has highlighted that many modern cancer medicines, especially immunotherapy, are far too expensive for most people around the world, including India.The Tata Memorial Centre –ACTREC study, published in ‘Head & Neck’ medical journal, has mentioned that a six-month course of immunotherapy drug, pembrolizumab, in India costs…
Mumbai: He walked kilometres to school in the hills of Shimla, climbed a 20,000-ft peak in Ladakh in his seventies, and trekked through Antarctica and South America. Somewhere in between, Vijay Mohan Crishna became one of India’s most quietly distinguished actors straddling stage and screen. Best known for playing Shah Rukh Khan’s stern father in…
