Bhayander: A video purportedly showing a group of youths performing dangerous stunts on the Bhayander railway creek bridge has gone viral on social media, prompting Railway Protection Force (RPF) to register a case against an unidentified person.The video shows the youths hanging from an iron safety mesh installed along the railway bridge and doing pull-ups…
Mumbai: Maharashtra may rank among India’s more progressive states in terms of life expectancy and purchasing power, but its older residents spend far fewer of their remaining years in good health and well-being, says a new study from the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Deonar.Published in ‘Social Indicators Research’, the study ranks Maharashtra 21st…
Thane: BJP MLA Sanjay Kelkar on Wednesday hit out at Maha-Metro for seeking residents’ objections and suggestions only after work on the Integral Ring Metro project had begun, questioning why citizens and key stakeholders were not consulted before the project secured crucial approvals from various central and state agencies.The meeting, held a week after Deputy…
The Bandra Bandstand project is aimed at improving a heavily used waterfront recreation and tourism zone Mumbai: Mumbai’s waterways and western waterfront could see a fresh infrastructure push, with the Maharashtra Maritime Board clearing key steps for the Mumbai Water Metro, work at the Radio Club and a makeover of Bandra Bandstand, while also approving…
Mumbai: Nishit Patel, a UK-based businessman who was granted conditional bail from a sessions court on Wednesday in a cheating case, has been arrested in another case by the police.He was granted bail in a case where he along with others was accused of duping actor Javed Jaffrey and his wife of Rs 17 crore….
Mumbai: State govt on Thursday questioned the Indian Medical Association’s legal right to challenge amendments to two Acts that introduced the Certificate Course in Modern Pharmacology (CCMP) and allowed homeopaths to practise allopathy.“How are they aggrieved by this Act?” asked advocate general Milind Sathe, arguing before a special bench of Justices Riyaz Chagla and Farhan…
Manoj Yadav, a native of MP, was strangled to death in the early hours of Aug 2 Mumbai: Friends, relatives and family members pooled Rs 45,000 to book flight tickets to take the body of 35-year-old security guard Manoj Yadav to his family in Itauri village in Madhya Pradesh, which borders UP, after he was…
The court relied on the deposition of the woman, her mother, the injured police constable, medical officers and panch witnesses Mumbai: Noting that the rising incidents of attacks on police personnel and violence against girls arising from one-sided love are deeply concerning, over four years after a brutal knife attack on a woman and an…
The amendment, passed recently, for the first time allows the establishment of private health sciences’ universities in the state Mumbai: Medical colleges aiming to become private universities in Maharashtra must be functioning for more than 20 years. Additionally, they should have a NAAC A+ grade or above and offer postgraduate courses in at least 50%…
Dahanu: A day after TOI’s report on how a family in Dahanu taluka was forced to wade through a flooded river to complete the last rites of a relative due to the absence of a bridge, the district administration swung into action with a zilla parishad team inspecting the site on Thursday.Officials from the zilla…
