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IIT Bombay students submitted eighteen demands to the administration after a student’s death. MUMBAI: IIT-Bombay director Shireesh Kedare signed an 18-point charter of demands put forward by protesting students during a three-hour late-night meeting at the institute’s main gate on Sunday, as agitation continued over the death by suicide of second-year BTech student Sahil Wakode….

Cockroach on dinner table at Mumbai JW Marriott MUMBAI: A Saturday night dinner at the Romano restaurant at JW Marriott took an unexpected turn after cardiologist Dr Ashok Seth spotted a baby cockroach on his table and said the sight forced him and his companions to leave without finishing their meal.Seth shared the incident on…

IIT Bombay’s Faculty Forum supports Professor Suryanarayana Doolla after a student’s death. MUMBAI: Amid the controversy surrounding the death of an IIT Bombay second-year student in an alleged suicide, the institute’s Faculty Forum has expressed solidarity with Professor Suryanarayana Doolla, saying he was acting in accordance with institutional rules after finding the student in “unauthorised…

A student claims police searched her home for nine hours without a warrant MUMBAI: Postgraduate student Harshada Borade has alleged that Bandra police’s anti-terrorism cell searched her home for over nine hours without a warrant and mistreated her friends after she took part in a pro-Palestine kite-flying campaign on Sept 15.Borade said the house owner…

The drinking water stall set up on a footpath near a Kalachowki mandal where the deaths occurred Mumbai: A 33-year-old vendor from Dharavi and an eight-year-old girl from UP were electrocuted and four others suffered shocks after they came in contact with an exposed wire at a makeshift soft drinks stall with illegal power supply…

The BMC contractor’s worker didn’t know the motor was running Mumbai: A 19-year-old worker of a contractor appointed by BMC was electrocuted after entering an artificial pond created for Ganesh idols’ immersions while an electric pump motor was still running in Jogeshwari East after Saturday midnight.Meghwadi police lodged an accidental death report. Artificial ponds need…

Mumbai: BJP minister Ashish Shelar visited the Kalachowki electrocution victims’ families at KEM Hospital and urged all Ganesh mandals to be more vigilant. He said it is essential that every mandal strictly adheres to safety rules. He said BMC and police have been asked to make the necessary arrangements so that the body of one…

Locals alleged that adequate safety measures are not being followed at the Metro construction site. Mira Road: A 23-year-old man suffered serious head injuries after a large cement block fell on him from the elevated Metro Line 9 construction site in Kashimira on Sunday afternoon.The incident comes a month after a safety lapse at Medetiya…

Second-year B Tech student Sahil Wakode died by suicide on IIT-B campus on Friday Mumbai: In a late-night three-hour meeting on Sunday, IIT-Bombay director Shireesh Kedare spoke to the students who gathered in large numbers at the institute’s main gate to protest against the death by suicide of BTech student Sahil Wakode (20).In the meeting,…