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Around 8.5 crore commuters have travelled by Metro during the past 11 months since beginning of commercial operation on 8 June last year, Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd (MMOPL) said here today. Source: Mumbai News

New research from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that it’s not the level of good cholesterol– better known as HDL – that it important, but their efficacy that determines whether a person get heart disease or not. Source: Mumbai News

With monsoons expected to hit Mumbai anytime soon, 745 road works have been completed in Mumbai this year tweeted the Yuva Sena president Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday night. Source: Mumbai News

Doctors at Parel’s Global Hospitals claimed to have performed a unique spine surgery to give a 82-year-old patient of spondylitis a new lease of life. Source: Mumbai News

Dr Rajan Welukar will cease to be the vice-chancellor of the University of Mumbai in about a month’s time. His selection was mired in controversy, and he later had to face many litigations. Source: Mumbai News

Five parachutes spotted straying onto the Mumbai airport airspace two days ago have sent security agencies into a tizzy. Source: Mumbai News

Two Kenyan nationals assaulted a uniformed Government Railway Police (GRP) constable at Byculla station early on Monday with his own lathi. While no case has been registered yet, the CST GRP has initiated a probe into the incident. Source: Mumbai News

Eleven people, including a five- year-old girl, were killed and 17 others injured when a vehicle collided head-on with a bus on Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway here in the wee hours on Monday, police said. Source: Mumbai News

Nine disabled friendly buses have been purchased by the Vasai Virar Municipal Transport (VVMT) undertaking. Source: Mumbai News

An inmate of Adharwadi jail, an under-trial who was accused of molesting a minor girl, committed suicide on Tuesday morning in Kalyan. The inmate has been identified as Ruba Rustam Shah, he was resident of Ulhasnagar. Source: Mumbai News