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Probe against official after minor's death in MBMC pool

Mumbai, July 8 -- Ten weeks after an 11-year-old boy drowned in a swimming pool run by the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC), a departmental inquiry has been ordered against civic sports off... Read More


2 nursery students hurt after fall from packed school van

THANE, July 8 -- Two nursery students fell out of a moving school van on the Kalyan-Badlapur road in Ambernath on Monday afternoon. Police said the lock on the van's back door was not secure and it wa... Read More


Protest in Govandi decries BMC move to privatise hosps, demands better facilities

Mumbai, July 8 -- Over 150 people held a protest from Mankhurd to Govandi on Monday against the privatisation of Lallubhai Compound Multispeciality and Shatabdi hospitals, and also demanded to improve... Read More


New TB drug candidate may make treatment safer, faster

Mumbai, July 8 -- A newly identified drug candidate, JNJ-6640, has demonstrated a novel mechanism of action against mycobacterium tuberculosis (the bacterium that causes TB), including dormant and dru... Read More


Bigger TC squad for AC locals: WR

Mumbai, July 8 -- Within a fortnight, the Western Railways' ticket checking squads are to be expanded to cover more AC local trains. From May 23, when the initiative was launched, till July 2 the squa... Read More


Fading human touch in electronic line calling

Mumbai, July 8 -- This was Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova's response when asked how she would have felt if that point, which has since become the talking point of Wimbledon, cost her the match: "I would jus... Read More


Djokovic stretched, finds a way to grind past De Minaur

Mumbai, July 8 -- There was a lot of running along the baseline. Left and right, backhand and forehand, cross-court, down the line. Again, and again. And again. Until Alex de Minaur launched a backhan... Read More


Gupta appointed new chief executive of ICC

Mumbai, July 8 -- Sanjog Gupta, a leading sports broadcast executive from India, has been appointed CEO of the International Cricket Council (ICC) starting Monday. Gupta, who was CEO - Sports & Live E... Read More


CM nod for faculty recruitment for state univs, colleges

MUMBAI, July 8 -- The state government has taken a major step to strengthen higher education by giving the go-ahead for recruitment to over 7,900 teaching posts and more than 2,200 non-teaching posts ... Read More


eam, russian counterpart talk strategic partnership

Rio de Janeiro, July 8 -- External affairs minister S Jaishankar met his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on the sidelines of the Brics Summit with a focus on strengthening the ties between the two... Read More