Mumbai: In a statewide crackdown on misleading drug advertisements and sale of misbranded medicines, the state Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday seized stocks worth Rs 73 lakh from 12 establishments across seven districts.The raids were carried out simultaneously in Mumbai, Konkan, Pune, Nashik, Nagpur, Amravati and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar under the Drugs and Magic…
Thane: The body of a man who drowned in Ilthanpada Dam at Digha in Navi Mumbai was recovered on Friday following a multi-agency search and rescue operation, a senior civic official said.The Airoli fire station received an alert about a youth drowning in the dam on Thursday, following which a search and rescue operation was…
Mumbai: The BMC tree authority on Friday approved a proposal to allow cutting and transplanting of a total of 1,992 trees for the proposed Mumbai Coastal Road project from Versova to Bhayander. Civic officials said of the 1,992 trees affected, 726 will be cut, while 1,266 will be transplanted on a 3.5-acre land owned by…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that the disabled sister of the deceased victim of a May 1991 road accident is also entitled to receive compensation along with his widow and children.It recognised Sridhar Shetty’s sister as a ‘legal representative’, citing Supreme Court’s Oct 2021 judgment that the term under the Motor Vehicles Act…
Yasin Shaikh’s family continues to stay near the site and takes turns staying awake through the night to guard what remains of their belongings Mumbai: Almost a week after railway authorities demolished nearly 500 structures in Garib Nagar, hundreds of displaced residents are now squatting around the edges of the cleared settlement itself. Staying put…
Mumbai: Concerns over India’s nursing shortage and the need to strengthen the workforce dominated discussions at ANEICON 2026, the annual two-day conference of the Association of Nurse Executives India (ANEI), that began in Mumbai on Friday.Speakers highlighted that India has only 1.9 to 2.2 nurses per 1,000 population–lower than the World Health Organisation-recommended ratio of…
VijayV.SinghMumbai: The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Friday reached a consensus on seat-sharing for 15 of the 17 legislative council seats going to polls on June 18. The Congress is set to contest eight seats, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) four, and the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) three seats.Senior MVA politicians, including state Congress…
Navi Mumbai: Rabale police have arrested a youth residing in a slum pocket in Kalwa (E), Thane, on the fringes of the Airoli MIDC area for molesting young women on moving scooters in Airoli node. After two victim women lodged police complaints against the molester on May 27, the detection branch team of Rabale police…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that the disabled sister of the deceased victim of a May 1991 road accident is also entitled to receive compensation along with his widow and children.It recognised Sridhar Shetty’s sister as a ‘legal representative’, citing Supreme Court’s Oct 2021 judgment that the term under the Motor Vehicles Act…
Mumbai: The Mumbai-Pune Deccan Express suffered an engine failure on Tuesday, forcing the train to halt between Kalyan and Neral for over 1.5 hours and triggering delays across Central Railway’s busy corridor. Railway officials said the locomotive developed a technical snag en route, leaving the express stranded on the main line and disrupting both long-distance…
