News & Events

A new article in the British Medical Journal highlights how India's private healthcare sector "treats patients as revenue generators". Source: Mumbai News

The Bombay high court on Tuesday expressed its dissatisfaction over the lack of inverters at 231 SSC board examination centres and directed the state to supply the emergency power equipment at all centres immediately. Source: Mumbai News

Unidentified men rented a shop only to loot an adjoining jewellery showroom in Virar of valuables worth over Rs 2.50 crores on Wednesday. Source: Mumbai News

Several police teams formed to solve the murder of CPI politician Govind Pansari were still groping in the dark on Tuesday. Without any concrete clues, they were pinning their hopes on technical assistance from mobile service providers. Source: Mumbai News

The Kharghar toll plaza was attacked on Tuesday evening allegedly by MNS activists. An employee of the toll booth was injured and the equipment damaged. Source: Mumbai News

The proposal to utilize Aarey Colony land in the BMC’s draft Development Plan has received the strongest snub yet, from chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, who said on Tuesday that it will “remain a no-development zone forever”. Source: Mumbai News

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s allegation of conversion against Mother Teresa has drawn flak from people of all communities. Source: Mumbai News

The University of Mumbai is collaborating with the Indian Railways to set up a ‘Rail Innovation and Technology Centre’ to offer specialized courses to students. Source: Mumbai News

The Government Railway Police (GRP) commissioner has issued instructions that all personnel escorting ladies compartments at night be checked before they leave for duty. This check will be done to ensure that they are not drunk. This comes in the wake of a home guard, Kailash More, getting sloshed and using abusive language in a Western Railway local train last Wednesday. Source: Mumbai News

A special TADA court will pronounce on Wednesday the quantum of sentence for extradited gangster Abu Salem in the 1995 murder of builder Pradeep Jain. This comes a week after the prosecution and defence advanced arguments regarding the extradition treaty under which Salem cannot be awarded the death sentence. Source: Mumbai News