The accident trapped 13 children inside a school van, with one, Vihaan, succumbing to his injuries. MUMBAI: The Chembur tree that collapsed and killed 11-year-old Vihaan Srivastav had extensive internal decay and damaged roadside roots, which compromised its stability and led to its fall, the BMC’s panel inquiring into the tragedy has said in a…
Court flags police inaction in Baba Siddique case; Anmol Bishnoi named. MUMBAI: Observing that police inaction and failure to adopt the remedies available under the law are clear from the records in the murder case of former minister Baba Siddiqui, a special MCOCA court Friday directed the crime branch to “scrupulously follow the law” to…
Dr Srushti Baviskar’s father, Dr Mahendra Kalyan: The complainant in the case, Dr Vaibhav Salunkhe, who was among those allegedly assaulted by Sena corporator Ramesh Mhatre and his supporters at Shastri Nagar Hospital run by Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC), has returned to his village in Amravati and it is unclear when he will resume duty,…
Heavy police deployment during Ramesh Mhatre’s production in court triggered allegations of ‘VIP treatment’ from lawyers Kalyan: A day after rejecting police’s plea to produce him via video conferencing on the grounds of ill health, a court on Friday sent Shiv Sena’s Kalyan-Dombivli corporator Ramesh Mhatre to police custody till Monday for the alleged assault…
Between June 16 and July 6, the civic body had razed 30 out of 4,946 unauthorised structures Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has issued show-cause notices to 295 responsible persons and officers under whose tenure massive illegal constructions flourished. They include incumbent, transferred and retired 10 deputy municipal commissioners (DMC), 91 assistant…
Mumbai: After the disqualification of AIMIM corporator Roshan Shaikh on Wednesday, another corporator, this time from the NCP, was disqualified on Friday after their caste certificate was declared invalid. Mayor Ritu Tawde announced this during the general body meeting of the civic body on Friday. Bushra Malik from the NCP represented ward number 170 in…
Mumbai: After a week of relentless rain, hot and humid weather returned on Friday as rainfall activity eased in Mumbai as well as many parts of Western Ghats. IMD has forecast only light showers over the weekend for the city.The Colaba and Santacruz observatories recorded 0.8mm and 0.4mm of rainfall, respectively, in the 24 hours…
The CAG report also pointed to an overestimation of the scheme’s coverage. It said the state’s reported achievement of 85.1% Functional Household Tap Connections by March 2024 was misleading as it included 27.7 lakh households with private or own-source tap connections that were yet to be covered under the mission Mumbai: A performance audit by…
Residents said modifications were made to the structure over the years Thane: A 12-year-old boy was crushed to death, while his mother and his nine-year-old brother sustained head injuries after a portion of their nearly 30-year-old one-storey tenement collapsed on them in a chawl in Thane’s Azad Nagar on Friday.The mother, Urmila Jaiswar (35), and…
There were widespread protests by doctors last year over the decision to include homeopaths in modern medicine Mumbai: On Friday, Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) convened a meeting between doctors’ organisations and the homeopathy council to set a standard operating procedure (SOP) to integrate homeopaths into modern medical practice. The inclusion of homeopaths in medical practice…
