Mumbai: In a relief for a six-year-old boy, who was denied admission to a school in Airoli, Navi Mumbai, under RTE Act solely because his father failed to submit a registered leave and licence agreement as proof of residence, Bombay high court stayed the rejection and directed that the application be processed forthwith.Justices Riyaz Chagla…
Navi Mumbai: A resident of a Kharghar building and three of her colleagues working at a BPO were trapped in a lift between the third and the fourth floors for about 50 minutes after a power outage early on Friday.Assuming it was only power tripping and someone would attend to it soon, they waited for…
FDA is collecting details and will accordingly investigate pharmacies in areas where the patients reside Mumbai: Gynaecologists at a city hospital have raised an alarm after 12 women were rushed to the facility in two months with severe complications from taking abortion pills without medical supervision. The hospital has flagged its concerns with the state…
Chaitanya.MarpakwarMumbai: The state govt has decided to buy 125 Remote Control Robotic Craft (RCRC) boats for disaster response forces for search and rescue operations. Each boat will cost around Rs. 22 lakh, and the total budget will be around Rs 28 crore. Officials said RCRC boats are unmanned, scaled-down watercraft equipped with remote control and…
Mumbai/New Delhi: Amid a growing shift by industrial and commercial consumers to retail fuel stations to take advantage of lower prices, govt Friday issued fresh directions to limit bulk purchase and sale of petroleum products.The new directions aimed at preventing hoarding and diversion of fuel supplies meant for ordinary customers put specific limits on diesel…
Mumbai: A day after a massive fire engulfed the top floor of a residential building in Juhu, BJP corporator Rupesh Sawarkar renewed his demand for the immediate development of a fire station at Chitrakoot Ground on Link Road.The demand was discussed at a meeting convened by Mumbai suburban guardian minister Ashish Shelar at the collector’s…
Santacruz police have filed a case against the machine’s operator Mumbai: A 55-year-old contractual sanitation worker, Angamma Devendra, was crushed to death under a Bobcat beach-cleaning machine at Juhu beach on Friday morning. Santacruz police have filed a case against the machine’s operator, Kaushik Hajra (22), for allegedly causing death by negligence.Devendra and Hajra, both…
Mumbai: The future of the party would become brighter through the unity, unwavering loyalty and hard work of its workers and leaders, said NCP national president and Dy CM Sunetra Pawar while asserting that the party would never step back from its ideological and political struggles.Addressing party workers at the NCP’s 27th foundation day celebrations…
Mumbai: Konkan Railway will deploy an Artificial Intelligence-based monitoring system to detect landslides, falling boulders and even animals on the tracks during the upcoming monsoon, as part of an extensive safety plan for the season. The railway has also completed a series of slope protection and emergency preparedness measures ahead of the monsoon timetable that…
Police said the accused and the victim were known to each other and are related. The accused attacked the victim with a sharp weapon inside Crawford Market. The victim worked at a dry fruit shop. Mumbai: The MRA Marg police station in South Mumbai on Friday arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly stabbing a man…
