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KEM Hospital chemist contract renewal faces dispute

India, Oct. 23 -- A proposal to extend the contract of a medical store at KEM Hospital in Parel for another five years without inviting fresh tenders has come under scrutiny in the BMC. Opposition cor... Read More


Asian Para Games: Harvinder Singh, Vijay Sundi bring gold in archery recurve; Nitesh Kumar beats Pramod Bhagat in all-Indian badminton final

India, Oct. 23 -- The gold rush for India at the Asian Para Games continues. On Friday morning, Harvinder Singh and debutant Vijay Sundi created history by clinching the gold medal in the men's recurv... Read More


State makes NOC from co-owners of joint property mandatory for sale

India, Oct. 23 -- The Maharashtra government has tightened land registration rules to prevent the sale of jointly held land without other co-owners' knowledge or consent. Under the new procedure, sell... Read More


Amid stiff opposition, BMC to dereserve Alexandra Cinema plot in Byculla for residential use

India, Oct. 23 -- The BMC Improvements Committee on Thursday passed a proposal to delete the cinema reservation on the 1,005-sq-m plot of the defunct Alexandra Cinema in Byculla-Nagpada, paving the wa... Read More


Up to 500,000 may be excluded from final Maharashtra voters list over non-submission of documents

India, Oct. 23 -- Up to 5% of the 12.2 million electors across Maharashtra flagged for discrepancies or non-mapping with the 2002 Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls may have their nam... Read More


Swaroop Nagar gangrape: Two rare DNA tests confirm sexual assault by four people

India, Oct. 23 -- Delhi Police conducted two rare tests of forensic DNA profiling to establish the alleged involvement of four accused in the gang-rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in outer Delhi'... Read More


HC warns slum dwellers littering streets of forfeiture of rehab rights

India, Oct. 23 -- The Bombay High Court on Thursday warned that the right of slum dwellers in Mumbai to permanent alternate accommodation would be forfeited if they were found dumping garbage in publi... Read More


Bhuleshwar fire: 300km of ageing BEST underground power cable network to be replaced

India, Oct. 23 -- On Thursday, a fire triggered by a suspected short circuit in Bhuleshwar once again swung the spotlight on the ageing underground power cable network of the Brihanmumbai Electricity ... Read More


Punjab-origin landlord stripped of royal honour over squalid housing conditions

London, Oct. 23 -- A British Indian landlord based in London has been stripped of his royal honour by King Charles III after being fined for renting out damp and squalid rooms. Nirpal Singh Riat's na... Read More


Amid rRs.r500 crore row, Jarange-Patil presents audio clip; Sena suggests BJP link

India, Oct. 23 -- Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of conspiring against him ahead of the 2024 elections, on Thursday. During a press conference in J... Read More