MUMBAI: Around 15 lakh cancer cases are detected in India every year, adding a patient load equal to the population of a city such as Nashik. Yet several states are excluding hundreds of experienced, fellowship-trained oncologists in the private sector from treating (PMJAY) patients.Their exclusion is not due to inadequate training or lack of experience,…
Palghar: The four-year-old boy, who was brutally assaulted by an autorickshaw driver in Vasai earlier this week, is out of danger and is recovering at a hospital, police said on Thursday.The accused in the case, Sandeep Pawar, was on Thursday produced in a local court, which extended his police custody till April 4.The incident took…
Mumbai: A 35-year-old labourer, who used to occassionally fly down from Odisha to Mumbai for duping ATM users here, was arrested by Dindoshi Police recently. Sambhav Kumar Acharya was on the run for the past four years, police said. He was nabbed from a hotel in Naigaon, Palghar, where he was currently staying. With Acharya’s…
Court rejects DRI plea to cancel bail in Rs 30 crore furniture scam (Representative image) MUMBAI: The Sessions Court rejected the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) plea seeking cancellation of bail granted to accused Falgun Yogendra Shroff in Rs 30 crores imported furniture scam.The case pertains to August last year when the DRI arrested businessman…
Mumbai: Autonomous colleges affiliated to Mumbai University will have to ‘mandatorily’ seek approval for all their programmes and courses from the university’s academic council. Till date, colleges were only expected to ‘inform’ the university of the new courses they planned to offer. Additionally, these colleges will have to submit their examination committee minutes and status…
Mumbai: Mumbai has recorded a 28% drop in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases over the last three years, with annual resistant cases falling from 5,698 in 2022 to 4,080 in 2025.A total of 1,093 drug-resistant patients were on the newly introduced BPaLM regimen, which cuts down treatment time from 18 months to six months. Others…
Mumbai: Days after a bonnet macaque was shot with an arrow in Thane’s Upvan area, two more monkeys of bonnet macaque species have been injured in a similar fashion with arrows by an unknown persons in the region.The state forest department has lodged a preliminary offence report against an unknown person under the Wildlife Protection…
Mumbai: Former NCB Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede told the Bombay High Court on Monday that he never demanded or took a bribe from actor Shah Rukh Khan to spare his son Aryan Khan following the latter’s arrest in a cruise drugs case.Wankhede’s counsel, Aabad Ponda, was arguing the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer’s plea…
Autonomous colleges surge in Maharashtra amid UGC relaxations (Representative image) MUMBAI: The number of autonomous colleges in Maharashtra has more than tripled over the past five years, rising from 100 in 2020 to 314 in 2025. Mumbai University accounts for the highest number in the state with 130 autonomous colleges, followed by Savitribai Phule Pune…
Quick-thinking resident foiled a kidnapping attempt in Vikhroli’s Damodar Park. MUMBAI: The presence of mind shown by a resident prevented a man from kidnapping two minor girls from a housing society in Vikhroli. Mohammad Zakaria Qamar Naeem Shamsi (21), a resident of Damodar Park, Maitri Co-operative Housing Society, who helped police arrest Suraj Prasad Banwasi,…
