'Clear waste around heritage sites in a week'

MUMBAI, Aug. 1 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday pulled up the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) over garbage dumping on Mumbai's roads and directed it to clear waste accumulation around promi... Read More

Contractor, officials' lapses led to manhole death: BMC panel

Mumbai, Aug. 1 -- A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) fact-finding committee has blamed both the contractor and officials from the K East ward's maintenance department for lapses that led to th... Read More

Fear of protest looming large, TISS cancels convocation

MUMBAI, Aug. 1 -- The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has postponed its convocation ceremony just 48 hours before it was to be held on August 2. The chief guest at the function was to be Chie... Read More

'Urgent repairs by the contractor prompted us to call off evacuation'

THANE, Aug. 1 -- Several residents of Kohinoor Apartment in Bhiwandi who managed to escape the crash on Thursday night said urgent repair work carried out by the contractor on Thursday evening prompte... Read More

10 dead, families shattered in bldg crash

THANE, Aug. 1 -- Ten people were killed and three injured when a portion of a four-storey building in Bhiwandi collapsed late on Thursday night, trapping several residents under the debris. The buildi... Read More

'Realised only after reading of digital arrests in newspapers': 90-year-old loses Rs.1.57 crore

NAVI MUMBAI, Aug. 1 -- A 90-year-old Nerul resident realised he and his wife had fallen victim to a months-long "digital arrest" scam only after reading newspaper reports on similar cyber frauds. By t... Read More

Pednekar seeks SOPs after suicide at Kasturba hospital

Mumbai, Aug. 1 -- Shiv Sena (UBT) leader of the opposition in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Kishori Pednekar, has demanded that civic hospitals adopt strict vigilance measures and stan... Read More

Cruelty claims alone not sufficient for divorce: HC

MUMBAI, Aug. 1 -- Refusing to grant a divorce to a 39-year-old man who alleged that his wife had an extra-marital affair and deserted him, the Bombay High Court said that the man had failed to produce... Read More

Schools purge junk food after FDA order

MUMBAI, Aug. 1 -- Schools across the city have begun removing junk food from their canteens after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) directed educational institutions to stop storing and selling f... Read More

2 booked for bid to kidnap jeweller

MUMBAI, Aug. 1 -- A 47-year-old Zaveri Bazaar jeweller has alleged that two men assaulted him and attempted to kidnap him in Bandra after he demanded repayment of a Rs.35 lakh loan he had extended to ... Read More

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