Former TISS student Abhirup Paul was arrested after his anticipatory bail was rejected (Representative image) MUMBAI: Hours after the anticipatory bail applications of two former students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) were rejected in a case stemming from an unauthorised campus event to pay homage to the late Delhi University professor G N…
Mumbai: Santacruz police arrested a 26-year-old man from a village in Bihar’s Darbhanga district for a burglary of over Rs 1 crore from the fifth-floor rental flat of Bollywood actress and Big Boss 2016 second runner-up Lopamudra Raut (32) on July 14. The accused, Chandan Mukhiya, reportedly used a bamboo stick to reach the fifth-floor…
Thane’s rapid shift from a low-rise, green ‘City of Lakes’ to a dense real estate and infrastructure hotspot has outpaced the ability of civic systems to keep up. A massive infrastructure programme valued at about Rs 55,000 crore is now underway to address problems created by years of fast growth, but residents and experts say…
Rafiq Chand Shaikh, alias Chuha, stole over Rs 9 lakh from two homes in Andheri Mumbai: He scurried away undetected for months but was undone by an Aadhaar update. A habitual burglar, Rafiq Chand Shaikh (38), who went by the moniker ‘Chuha’ (mouse) for the ease with which he could enter homes, was arrested from…
I remember the early days of our sickle cell work not through files or review meetings but through faces.I remember sitting in a tertiary hospital with parents trying to understand how an inherited blood disease they had never been warned about had entered their children’s lives so early, and so harshly. Many were healthy carriers…
Mumbai: A 40-year-old man was saved after the Versova police broke into his house and foiled his suicide attempt on Sunday. The police rushed to Sagar Kutir locality in Andheri (West) after he tried to end his life at 12.42 pm allegedly after an argument with his wife over a domestic issue.Versova police received information…
Raj Thackeray alleged that locals were being kept out of the Third Mumbai plan in Raigad Mumbai: MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday, while criticising the 17-year delay in redeveloping the Mumbai-Goa highway, said, “This is because of political interference.”Speaking to reporters during his Raigad visit, he raised concerns over the execution of a project…
The case originated in 2007 amid a dispute linked to a redevelopment project at Kalachowky Mumbai: Nearly 20 years after a criminal case was filed alleging a conspiracy to kill a builder in a redevelopment dispute, the Bombay High Court has accepted the State CID’s ‘B-Summary’ closure report in the matter involving Shreepati builder managing…
Mumbai: State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has issued a notice to BMC over an unregistered laboratory technician at VN Desai Hospital in Santacruz.Earlier, a similar notice was issued at Bandra Bhabha. Hospital officials said there are many lab technicians within BMC hospitals who hold MSc degrees but still do not have a Diploma in Medical…
Mumbai: In a workshop at King Circle, a towering Ganesh idol is slowly taking shape, not from Plaster of Paris (PoP), but from shadu clay, sculpted patiently by hand. For years, commercial idol-makers have been arguing that giant public idols cannot be made from clay, claiming the material is too fragile to support its own…
