Mumbai

Badlapur: Police have issued notices to four doctors running IVF centres in connection with the illegal extraction and sale of human eggs from economically vulnerable women even as the investigation has widened to cover over 30 medical practitioners in various cities of the state. Of the four doctors issued notices, two are from Mumbai, one…

Mumbai: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for hot and humid conditions in isolated parts of the city till Saturday.Day temperatures on Thursday showed a rising trend. At IMD Colaba observatory, the maximum temperature was recorded at 33.2 degrees Celsius, close to normal. However, IMD Santacruz observatory recorded a higher 35.9…

Kalyan: A 70-year-old man who suffered chest pain outside Kalyan railway station on Wednesday night died allegedly due to a 40-minute delay in the arrival of an ‘108′ ambulance, triggering protests by local residents. However, the attending doctor in the ambulance claimed that they reached the spot within 10 minutes of receiving an alert from…

Mumbai: Two passengers were injured — one of them critically — after flying debris and a 3m-long iron rod from ongoing railway work struck a moving Kasara-bound local on Wednesday afternoon, in a shocking incident that has exposed serious lapses in safety practices by the engineering wing of Central Railway.Following the incident, three staffers from…

Mumbai: A 36-year-old homemaker from a Charkop housing society has been arrested after she tipped off an acquaintance and got him to loot her neighbour’s house. Police said the accused made a duplicate key to the neighbour’s house and stole gold jewellery worth Rs 34 lakh.On April 13, a 40-year-old woman approached the Charkop police…

Mumbai: The quick alertness of two traffic constables led to the arrest of two persons from Aurangabad who were travelling in a tinted glass car with an illegal weapon. The two suspects have been placed under arrest and booked under the BNS sections of the illegal arms act.According to the police, head constable Prabhakar Pawar…

Mumbai: Two years after introducing a CET-based entry process for courses such as BMS, BBA, BCA and integrated MBA, the state govt has decided to modify the norms to address the issue of vacant seats and delays in the process. Students with a valid MHT-CET score in either PCM or PCB will also be eligible…

Mumbai: Residents of chawls and buildings that have been included in the Dharavi Redevelopment Project will get a minimum of 500 sq ft carpet area rehabilitation flats to a maximum of 754 sq ft free of cost. This will benefit around 8,700 households in Dharavi that have been included in the Dharavi Notified Area. This…

Mumbai: Acknowledging the complaint of a Mumbai-based environmentalist that over 116 acres of embargoed govt industrial land is in grave danger of being fully encroached upon in Charkop, Kandivli West, the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) has written to the state revenue department as well as the BMC to ensure that no encroachment takes…

Mumbai: The BMC has launched a centralised system to streamline resolution of all types of citizen complaints. The new platform, called the Management and Redressal of Grievances (MARG) system, was inaugurated by the city’s mayor Ritu Tawde with the aim of boosting citizen participation and ensuring faster, more effective delivery of civic services.The MARG system…