Mumbai: Cooper Hospital in Vile Parle (W) has appointed yet another acting dean, its second in recent months, to oversee day-to-day operations after a series of incidents that cast BMC health administration in a poor light.Dr Dev Shetty, previously the hospital’s medical superintendent, took charge as acting dean on Wednesday. “We are hopeful this will…
New Delhi: A crowd could be seen in front of the night shelter at Coolie Camp in Vasant Vihar on Tuesday, the morning after a fire claimed the lives of two of its inmates, Arjun (19) and Vikas (42). People stood shoulder to shoulder, replaying flashes of the nightmare — of flames shooting up without…
Mumbai is in the headlines for its worsening air. But “publicity for the wrong reasons can be a motivator,” says Douglas Worsnop, noting that bad press over Beijing’s smog before the 2008 Olympics pushed China to clean up its air. Worsnop—a leading atmospheric chemist who helped develop key instruments to study pollution particles—has also worked…
New Delhi: Two Delhi University colleges — Ramjas College in north Delhi and Deshbandhu College in south Delhi — received bomb threat emails early on Wednesday, prompting evacuations and cancellation of examinations at Ramjas College. The email was sent to the official accounts of both college principals around 1.59am. The subject line stated: “Pakistan–Tamil Nadu…
Mumbai: The BMC’s additional commissioner Abhijit Bangar has directed the administration to complete remaining Hancock bridge reconstruction works in a planned manner. The bridge was demolished in Jan 2016, and thereafter its reconstruction was taken up. One of its sides was opened for traffic in Aug 2022. Remaining works are stalled due to technical and…
New Delhi: NGT has ordered a fresh joint inspection into claims of encroachment and construction over a natural drain, likely a tributary of the Najafgarh Drain, on govt land in village Goela Khurd in southwest Delhi. This comes after an application was filed by the Residents Welfare Society, Shyam Kunj. Last year on 31 July,…
Pune: A five-year-old kindergarten student came under the rear wheels of his school van when its driver failed to spot him while reversing the vehicle on an internal road in Dhangar Vasti in Uruli Devachi around 8.30am on Tuesday.Phursungi police identified the victim as Sainath Bhangare, a resident of Uruli Devachi, and said the boy…
Mumbai: In the wake of a surge in complaints about bogus disability certificates, including high-profile cases such as that of Pooja Khedkar, the Maharashtra govt ordered a fresh round of disability verification for all govt and semi-govt employees who received disability-based reservations, promotions, or concessions.The govt resolution (GR) issued in Oct mandates that every department…
New Delhi: At least 62 articles of diamond and gold coloured stone jewellery were stolen after robbers broke the window of a car in central Delhi’s Karol Bagh. According to police, the jewellery belonged to a 34-year-old Civil Lines-based shop owner who runs a store on Karnal Road. He sent new jewellery to a Karol…
PUNE: Two astronomers from Pune-based National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), have discovered what could be one of the earliest spiral galaxies ever detected, complete with clearly observable arms, just like our own Milky Way.It’s a surprising discovery, said astronomers Rashi Jain and Yogesh Wadadekar, who named the…
