(Left to right) Leo, Bella and Lily Mumbai: The Humboldt penguin colony at Mumbai’s Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Garden and Zoo has grown from 21 to 25, with the civic body revealing that four chicks born over the past year have now been declared healthy and added to the public count.Zoo officials said the births…
Mayor Ritu Tawade visited the sports facility Richa PintoMumbai: Mayor Ritu Tawde on Friday took a swipe at the UBT Shiv Sena while renewing her efforts to bring lions to the Byculla zoo, declaring, “If they brought penguins, we will bring lions.”The Byculla gardens and zoo currently has 25 birds.Worli MLA Aaditya Thackeray backed the…
Residents of Durgeshwari Apartment in Om Nagar noticed that the ageing building had tilted to one side and alerted the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation Mumbai: Panic gripped residents of a housing society in Nalasopara East on Friday evening after a four-storey building developed a tilt, prompting authorities to evacuate all occupants amid fears of a collapse.The…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has laid down a framework for constituting primary and secondary medical boards in private hospitals to implement Supreme Court guidelines on end-of-life decisions or ‘living will’ and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in terminally ill patients.The framework, part of a Government Resolution (GR) issued by the state public health department follows the…
Mumbai: A new research article by Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) claiming that papaya leaf extract pills help raise platelet count in chemotherapy patients has come under global scrutiny.The Journal of Global Oncology, a peer-reviewed medical journal that published TMH’s paper a few days ago, is “investigating” the study after Kochi-based hepatologist Dr Cyriac Abby Philips…
Mumbai: BMC will organise free breast cancer screening camps across all 227 municipal wards on July 22, targeting women aged 30 years and above as part of a citywide early detection drive.The camps will be held between 10 am and 5 pm and the civic body has deployed over 2,000 medical personnel for the exercise.Each…
A farmer tilling the soil with a hand tool as others plough their fields using bullocks at Karad, in Satara district, Maharashtra. (PTI Photo) MUMBAI: A rare convergence of an Adhik Jyeshtha month in the Hindu calendar and a powerful Super El Niño has raised concerns over the progress of this year’s monsoon in Maharashtra,…
Pune/Mumbai: The rift in the NCP leadership showed signs of widening as just two days after the party’s working president Praful Patel and state chief Sunil Tatkare met CM Devendra Fadnavis without the knowledge of party chief Sunetra Pawar, her elder son and Rajya Sabha MP Parth Pawar met the CM on Thursday.Amid speculation that…
The victims were identified as Shoaib Khan (17) and Ayan Mandal (19), both residents of Nalasopara West. According to police, the two were among a group of four friends who had visited Arnala beach on Thursday morning for an outing. Virar: The bodies of two youths who drowned while swimming at Arnala beach in Virar…
Kalyan: A history-sheeter who was out on bail in a murder case was allegedly stabbed to death by a group of assailants in Kalyan (E) in the early hours of Thursday, while his girlfriend, accompanying him, sustained minor injuries after she tried to intervene.The deceased was identified as Arjun Kalpande alias ‘Pendya Bhai’, a resident…
