Mumbai: Resident doctors of BMC-run King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEM) in Parel on Saturday opposed the proposed renaming of the institution and instead sought “meaningful reforms that improve patient care and doctors’ welfare”.The civic health committee on Friday passed a proposal to rename KEM Hospital to ‘Kaushalyashreshtha Ekalavya Memorial (KEM) Hospital’. The proposal will have…
Mumbai: Elections to the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC), a statutory body responsible for regulating the practice of modern medicine in Maharashtra, will be held on Sunday.The last MMC elections were held in 2016, with the council elected at that time dissolved in 2022. The state has since appointed various administrators to manage the MMC till…
Mumbai: After spending almost 12 years in jail on charges of repeatedly gang-raping an 11-year-old girl, a special Pocso court acquitted a 35-year-old man, observing that the prosecution failed to provide “clinching evidence” to prove the victim’s age or the allegations of sexual assault. Another accused died during the pendency of the trial, and the…
MUMBAI: Researchers at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) found that exposure to high levels of air pollution and contaminated groundwater is disrupting the reproductive timelines of Indian women.The researchers combined data of hundreds of thousands of women from the National Family Health Survey (2019-2021) with satellite-derived PM2.5 data to establish air pollution links….
Mumbai: Resident groups from Bandra (W) have opposed the Maharashtra Maritime Board’s (MMB) new advertising policy that allows ads on hoardings, hot air balloons and flotels/barges along the coast. Residents have said none of the two promenades or beaches in Bandra and elsewhere in Mumbai under MMB can be venues to erect any sized hoardings….
Mumbai: The Maritime Mumbai Museum Society (MMMS) has sought land from the Mumbai Port Authority (MPA) to set up a world-class Maritime Museum in Mumbai. The MMMS, which is a group of maritime and heritage enthusiasts comprising naval officers, master mariners, historians, architects, archaeologists, designers and citizens, has asked Shiv Sena MP Milind Deora to…
Navi Mumbai: Three unidentified men, one of them armed with a knife, waylaid a businessman on the street while he was walking towards his residence in Sector 12, Kharghar, and slashed his forearm with the knife, robbing him of his Rs 40.60 lakh worth of gold ornaments that he was carrying in a bag on…
Mumbai: A special court on Friday rejected the discharge plea of Sudarshan Darade, the alleged CEO of a company involved in an international human trafficking and cyber-fraud syndicate. The court ruled that there is “more than sufficient and prima facie material” to show Darade’s involvement in a sophisticated modus operandi that lured educated Indian youths…
MUMBAI: Sanjay Raut, Rajya Sabha MP from Shiv Sena (UBT), on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Raghav Chadha and two other AAP MPs who joined the BJP, calling the saffron party “shameless” and comparing it to the mythical demon Bakasura, whose hunger is never satiated.Raut said the defectors had joined a “party of goons…
Mumbai University staffer caught leaking BCom exam papers (File Photo) MUMBAI: CCTV footage from the Mumbai University‘s Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE) at its Kalina campus shows a contractual staffer, Sudesh Tukaram Indap (40), allegedly photographing question papers for the BCom Semester VI exams inside the examination control room. The photos were allegedly…
