Mumbai: To ensure medical assistance to patients facing serious illnesses, and to bring speed and transparency to the process, a Mayor’s medical assistance fund cell, on the lines of the Chief Minister’s Medical Assistance Cell, has been made operational at the BMC headquarters on Wednesday. On the occasion, cheques from the Mayor’s medical assistance fund…
TMC officials and local representatives inspect the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project stretch between Mhatardi and Betawade on Wednesday after corporators raised concerns over waterlogging and the impact of construction on natural drainage. iThane: The Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project (MAHSRP) has come under fire from Shiv Sena corporators in Thane, who have alleged that…
Mumbai: MIDC police team traced and reunited an 11-year-old boy with his parents in Malvani on Wednesday — three years after he allegedly fled from his home after being scolded for not studying. Police said the boy had been staying at a Matunga child welfare institution for the past three years under a different name.The…
Mumbai became a hub of activism on Wednesday, as protests unfolded over allegations of exam irregularities MUMBAI: Mumbai witnessed protests at several locations on Wednesday in support of the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) agitation over alleged irregularities in competitive examinations, with police detaining several demonstrators and forcibly evicting senior Congress leaders from a key intersection…
The action is part of the Maharashtra FDA’s intensified statewide drive against food adulteration and milk-related offences Ulhasnagar: In a major crackdown on the illegal sale and use of oxytocin injections in dairy animals, a joint team of the Central police station and the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seized 612 bottles of suspected…
As heavy downpours continue, Mumbai is on high alert with the IMD raising an orange signal MUMBAI: India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday retained the orange alert for Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), forecasting heavy to very heavy rainfall accompanied by gusty winds through the day, even as the sustained monsoon showers pushed…
Mumbai: Between 2023 and 2025, 99 people died of leptospirosis, malaria and dengue out of 236 suspected fatalities reviewed by the BMC’s death audit committee, according to the latest RTI data.Of the 32 suspected leptospirosis deaths last year — which is typically contracted by wading through waterlogged areas contaminated with animal or rodent urine —…
The autopsy showed the woman was strangled to death Mumbai: A 20-year-old man was arrested by Oshiwara police for the murder of his wife after he tried to pass it off as a natural death. His lies came to light when the postmortem examination concluded the death to be homicidal.Siraj Ansari lived with his wife,…
The victim, Ramesh, 42, (name changed to protect identity), was a resident of Devgaon in Murbad taluka and worked in the housekeeping department of a private company. His decomposed body was recovered on June 28, following which police registered a case of murder and destruction of evidence. Kalyan: Nearly a month after the decomposed body…
A day after students in Delhi were lathi-charged after the CJP protest devolved into chaos and 24 hours after Mumbai police detained a number of protesters MUMBAI: A day after students in Delhi were lathi-charged after the CJP protest devolved into chaos and 24 hours after Mumbai police detained a number of protesters, hundreds of…
