Palliative care is not only about treatment and therapy, but holistic wellbeing. In two adjoining rooms at the Romila Palliative Care centre, off Pali Naka in Bandra, sit Ibrahim Syed, a 33-year-old man, and Roohi Salamsheikh, a 47-year-old woman. One has had a stroke; the other has been the caregiver of someone who has.Both might…
The buses will have lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries integrated directly into the bus chassis Mumbai: A fleet of nine new blade battery buses arrived at the Magathane depot on Saturday, with a total of 49 new tech e-buses expected to arrive within a week, according to a senior official.The new induction features next-generation electric…
Navi Mumbai: Facing flak from various quarters over rising pollution in the city post-monsoon, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has ordered strict enforcement of air-pollution control measures at construction sites ahead of winter, warning that violations could result in immediate stop-work notices, sealing of the project and heavy fines. Municipal commissioner Kailas Shinde issued the…
Pic only for representation Navi Mumbai: The deepening water crisis has forced Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) to become more dependent upon water tankers. The civic body will spend about Rs 10 crore towards purchasing 20 water tankers. Each water tanker will have 10,000 litres capacity. These water tankers will be mostly used in the…
Navi Mumbai: A 62-year-old landlord has been arrested by Turbhe police for allegedly sexually abusing an 8-year-old daughter of his tenant when the minor girl’s parents, who are daily wage labourers, had gone to work and she was alone at their chawl home in Mahape village on Fri around 9 am. The arrested accused has…
Navi Mumbai: An FIR has been registered against the retired stenographer of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) at Turbhe for allegedly stealing some confidential official documents from the office of the APMC secretary’s PA on Oct 7.The accused, identified as Yashwant Moreshwar Deshpande (58), a resident of Kharghar, had retired on June 30 as…
8-feet-long Indian rock python rescued from inside IIT-Bombay campus in Powai Navi Mumbai: Four snakes and a monitor lizard were rescued from various parts of Navi Mumbai and Mumbai in the past 72 hours. Animal rights group Plant and Animals Welfare Society (PAWS-MUMBAI) said that destruction of greenery and other developmental projects have disturbed reptiles,…
Mumbai: Around 500 people turned up at August Kranti Maidan on Saturday in support of the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar following a call by Tushar Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson.On Friday, Tushar Gandhi of Hum Bharat Ke Log had called for a protest in support of the CJP stir in Delhi.The protesters came in batches…
The HC observed, “The documents have to be seen together,” and added that a stamp duty matter cannot be decided only by looking at the last document Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has quashed stamp duty demands running into crores of rupees against firms involved in Goregaon property transactions. Authorities must consider the entire chain…
The court cited forensic material, noting that notes allegedly written by Pathan were sent to CFSL Pune, which confirmed a match Mumbai: A special NIA court on Friday rejected the discharge plea of Kadeer Pathan, arrested in the ISIS Maharashtra module case, observing that the material on record shows a prima facie link between him…
