Summit calls for health measures to combat anemia MUMBAI: A group of healthcare experts, policy makers, jurists and other stakeholders have called for stronger public health measures to combat anemia, especially among girl children, female adolescents and women.Held by city-based Human Social Care Foundation (HSCF), an NGO holding Special Consultative Status with the United Nations…
MUMBAI: A special court on Saturday acquitted 8 accused including deputy CM Sunetra Pawar’s brother Padamsinh Patil in the 2006 murders of Congress leader Pavanraje Nimbalkar and his driver, Samad Kazi. Patil (86), a senior NCP functionary and former state minister, is alleged to have orchestrated the murder of Nimbalkar, his cousin, due to political…
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) on Saturday has issued a fresh show-cause notice to its absentee MPs, threatening disqualification.The party’s Chief Whip in the Lok Sabha, Anil Desai, has issued formal show-cause notices to the MPs concerned. They have been given a strict 24-hour deadline to submit a written explanation for their conduct.The notice carries a…
India’s nuclear power expansion reached a key milestone with the successful installation of the reactor pressure vessel at Kudankulam Unit-5 (Image enhanced with AI) MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: India crossed another milestone in its nuclear power expansion programme on Monday with the successful installation of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) at Unit-5 of the Nuclear Power Corporation…
BEST employees continue their indefinite strike for a second day (File photo, Image enhanced with AI) MUMBAI: Despite appeals from the Maharashtra transport minister and the invocation of the Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act (MESMA), employees of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking continued their indefinite strike for the second consecutive day on…
A dumper truck rammed into the noise barrier installed along Mrinal Tai Gore Flyover extension in Goregaon on Friday morning Mumbai: Two weeks after the inauguration of Mrinal Tai Gore Flyover extension in Goregaon, two noise barrier panels installed along the bridge came crashing onto S V Road below early on Friday after being hit…
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday slammed the BJP, saying the party was trying to finish all other parties and wanted “only one party and no election”. MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday slammed the BJP, saying the party was trying to finish all other parties and wanted “only one…
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray accused the BJP of aiming to eliminate other parties and abolish elections. MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said on Friday that the BJP was trying to finish all other parties and wanted only one party and no elections.Speaking on the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the…
Former residents of Air India Colony revisit their childhood neighbourhood during a nostalgic reunion on Friday Mumbai: Standing before the ageing staff quarters where they had spent their childhood, many former residents of Air India and Indian Airlines colonies in Kalina had to hold back their tears as memories came flooding back.On Friday evening, nearly…
The shops mainly sells shawarma, pizza and falooda Pradeep Gupta Bhiwandi: A suspected food poisoning incident in Bhiwandi has left 88 people, including 33 women and 14 children, ill after they allegedly consumed food from a shawarma and pizza outlet on Khandu Pada Road. The number of affected persons rose sharply from 11 on Thursday…
