The current phase will focus on raising the tracks through the station area, which has emerged as one of the most flood-prone stretches. (File Photo) MUMBAI: Western Railway (WR) has decided to raise the track level at Nalasopara and Vasai as part of a two-phase flood mitigation plan after waterlogging earlier this week disrupted suburban…
A doctor from a municipal hospital medical college claimed that there is a 23% drop in blood available for thalassaemia patients Mumbai: A 24-year-old youth has spent the last four days looking for six blood bags for his uncle, who is scheduled to undergo cardiac bypass surgery at a public hospital in the city. “I…
Mumbai: A 56-year-old Powai construction supplier who lost Rs 6.6 lakh to an MGL piped gas bill fraud received the full amount after a court directed the accused, Mangaluru resident S K Shetty, to pay the victim before entertaining Shetty’s anticipatory bail plea, the police said.Between March 25 and May 12, Mumbaikars lost Rs 3…
The magistrate said that it could not be proved that the accused drove the car at a high speed, dashed the woman and caused her death, and left the spot without providing any medical help Mumbai: Fourteen years after a Mulund homemaker, then aged 29, was accused of mowing down a senior citizen from a…
DCM Eknath Shinde greets Sharad Pawar at his office Chaitanya MarpakwarMumbai: The Shiv Sena (UBT) on Thursday hit out at NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar over his meeting with DCM Eknath Shinde on Wednesday, saying Sena (UBT) has been hurt by the veteran politician’s action.Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut alleged that Sharad Pawar is lending…
Mumbai: The Forum for Internet Retailers, Sellers & Traders (FIRST) has dragged Walmart-owned Flipkart Group to the Competition Commission of India (CCI), seeking a fresh investigation into the conduct of the company over practices designed to distort competition, benefit few preferred sellers and exclude scores of small retailers from the marketplace system.In its 157-page complaint…
Navi Mumbai: Following the protest march by hundreds of PAPs from Panvel towards Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, Mumbai, on Wednesday for the long-standing demand that Navi Mumbai International Airport be officially named after the farmers’ leader Late DB Patil, despite the police rejecting the permission, the Navi Mumbai police, after detaining around 300 protesting men and…
This is the third time in two months that a corporator from the Opposition has lost membership Mumbai: In another setback for the Opposition in the BMC, AIMIM corporator Roshan Shaikh has been disqualified after her Other Backward Classes (OBC) certificate was declared invalid by the District Caste Certificate Verification Committee. This is the third…
Kalyan: The arrest of Shiv Sena corporator Ramesh Mhatre for allegedly assaulting a doctor and a nurse at KDMC’s Shastri Nagar Hospital has brought a chapter of his life back into focus. The four-time Dombivli corporator, currently undergoing treatment at Thane Civil Hospital after complaining of chest pain, high blood pressure and other complications following…
Bhiwandi: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Thane police probing the TET paper leak case has arrested two more accused from Patna, taking the investigation further into the alleged interstate network behind the leak. With the arrest of two, the number of arrested accused reached up to 12.The arrested accused have been identified as…
