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BOMBAY HC ALLOWS WOMAN, 54, TO PURSUE SURROGACY

Mumbai, Nov. 7 -- The Bombay High Court has allowed a 54-year-old woman and her 53-year-old husband to undergo surrogacy, holding that a woman cannot be denied the chance to become a mother merely bec... Read More


FDA suspends 28 eatery licences in city, cancels 1

MUMBAI, Nov. 7 -- As part of its special Diwali food safety crackdown on November 4 and 5, the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) suspended the licences of 105 firms and cancelled the licences of sev... Read More


PWD plans ropeway over SGNP's protected core, risking wildlife habitat

MUMBAI, Nov. 7 -- At a time when the state government is facing immense flak for the mass destruction of trees in the state, the state Public Works Department (PWD) has come up with another environmen... Read More


Physio, 26, stripped, filmed and robbed of gold, ring, Rs.45K

MUMBAI, Nov. 7 -- A 26-year-old physiotherapist from Mulund was allegedly stripped, filmed and robbed of his gold chain, bracelet and diamond-studded ring by four men who abducted him to an under-cons... Read More


Cops get custody of Bengaluru techie

MUMBAI, Nov. 7 -- Vaibhav Chandra Mishra, a 30-year-old unemployed engineer who allegedly sent extortion threats to several Bollywood actors including Ayushmann Khurrana and Tusshar Kapoor while posin... Read More


Court orders probe into alleged shooter's claim of being a minor

MUMBAI, Nov. 7 -- A special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Friday directed the police to probe the claim of Phoolsing Naresh Kumar alias Phooli, one of the alleged shooter... Read More


Court allows woman, 54, to go for surrogacy

MUMBAI, Nov. 7 -- The Bombay High Court has allowed a 54-year-old woman to pursue motherhood through surrogacy even though the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 caps the intending mother's age at 50 ye... Read More


695 engineers transferred via online system

MUMBAI, Nov. 7 -- Nearly a year after a controversial transfer of BMC engineers triggered allegations of a cash-for-postings racket and forced the scrapping of over 120 transfer orders, the civic admi... Read More


BMC hits pause on plan to hand over civic school to private firm

MUMBAI, Nov. 7 -- The BMC has cancelled a tender that sought to hand over the Durgadevi Municipal School plot near Chor Bazaar to a private organisation, the fifth and final school brought under a con... Read More


10 booked for Rs.300-cr temple trust land grab in Mira Rd

MUMBAI, Nov. 7 -- Ten people, including partners of a real estate firm and former and current trustees of a temple trust, have been booked for allegedly conspiring to take over 98,000 square metres of... Read More