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…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday set aside the state govt’s decision that discriminated against sanitation workers who worked under private employment and died while engaged in the work of manual scavenging. The court held that each such worker’s kin were entitled to receive Rs 30 lakh compensation.Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande directed…
Mumbai: Two days after a devastating fire claimed the lives of a 2-year-old boy and his family’s 23-year-old domestic worker, Ankita Chettri, it was a former employer—in whose house she worked many years ago—who finally stepped forward to help her grieving family claim her body.Until then, Ankita’s body had been resting at the post-mortem centre…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday remarked that it was time for a long-pending dispute about recovery from Vijay Mallya, founder of the erstwhile Kingfisher Airlines, “be brought to an end”.Justice Milind Jadhav made the remark after senior counsel Amit Desai for Mallya submitted that a petition against seizures of his assets turned infructuous…
The BMC is constructing its first cable-stayed bridge over railway tracks near Mahalaxmi station to connect Saat Rasta with Mahalaxmi Maidan Mumbai: The BMC has set a December 31 deadline to complete its first cable-stayed bridge over railway tracks, being constructed near Mahalaxmi station to connect Saat Rasta with Mahalaxmi Maidan.Additional Municipal Commissioner (Projects) Abhijit…
The newly opened SCLR elevated link directly connects Bandra-Kurla Complex and Western Express Highway near Mumbai University, providing motorists an alternative route and easing traffic congestion at Vakola and Kalanagar Mumbai: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday inaugurated the completed Santacruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) network and Metro connectivity up to Chembur, while launching the second…
Vasai: A 56-year-old woman died of snakebite while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Kandivli on Wednesday, raising concerns over the rising number of snakebite cases in Palghar district.Suman Kom, a resident of Bhatane in Vasai (E), was working on a farm on Aug 8 when a venomous snake bit her on the hand. She…
Many colleges, including Government Law College, are excluded from the initial admission round MUMBAI: Maharashtra’s top-ranked law aspirants will, for the first time in years, be unable to choose the Government Law College (GLC), Mumbai, as their first preference in the opening round of admissions, even as nearly half the law seats in the state…
