Vasai: A motorcycle rider was killed and another person injured after their bike was hit by a truck carrying LPG cylinders near Martin Complex in the Achole police station area on Sunday afternoon.The accident took place around 1 pm when the motorcycle, ridden by Krishna Vishwakarma, was travelling towards Vasai Link Road. As the bike…
Physical copies of BMC meeting agendas and proposals will, however, continue to be circulated during the transition towards a paperless system, BJP group leader in the BMC Ganesh Khankar said Mumbai: The BMC has proposed to provide 13-inch tablets to all 237 corporators, including the 10 nominated members, as part of its initiative to digitise…
Both independent chefs and collectives are driving the Koli culinary market, largely through referrals and WhatsApp marketing. The tilapia, a freshwater fish, is far from home in a Koli kitchen. Yet on Friday, a batch of shapely tilapia patties made their way down the final stages of an assembly line — water, semolina, hot oil on the…
Abhirup Paul was sent to police custody till Aug 10 Mumbai: Hours after the anticipatory bail applications of two former students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) were rejected in a case stemming from an unauthorised campus event to pay homage to the late Delhi University professor G N Saibaba last year, who was…
Thane’s rapid shift from a low-rise, green ‘City of Lakes’ to a dense real estate and infrastructure hotspot has outpaced the ability of civic systems to keep up. A massive infrastructure programme valued at about Rs 55,000 crore is now underway to address problems created by years of fast growth, but residents and experts say…
Rafiq Chand Shaikh, alias Chuha, stole over Rs 9 lakh from two homes in Andheri Mumbai: He scurried away undetected for months but was undone by an Aadhaar update. A habitual burglar, Rafiq Chand Shaikh (38), who went by the moniker ‘Chuha’ (mouse) for the ease with which he could enter homes, was arrested from…
I remember the early days of our sickle cell work not through files or review meetings but through faces.I remember sitting in a tertiary hospital with parents trying to understand how an inherited blood disease they had never been warned about had entered their children’s lives so early, and so harshly. Many were healthy carriers…
Mumbai: A 40-year-old man was saved after the Versova police broke into his house and foiled his suicide attempt on Sunday. The police rushed to Sagar Kutir locality in Andheri (West) after he tried to end his life at 12.42 pm allegedly after an argument with his wife over a domestic issue.Versova police received information…
Raj Thackeray alleged that locals were being kept out of the Third Mumbai plan in Raigad Mumbai: MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday, while criticising the 17-year delay in redeveloping the Mumbai-Goa highway, said, “This is because of political interference.”Speaking to reporters during his Raigad visit, he raised concerns over the execution of a project…
Mumbai: State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has issued a notice to BMC over an unregistered laboratory technician at VN Desai Hospital in Santacruz.Earlier, a similar notice was issued at Bandra Bhabha. Hospital officials said there are many lab technicians within BMC hospitals who hold MSc degrees but still do not have a Diploma in Medical…
