A 17-year-old Bandra girl, Emaan Shah, disappeared while out shopping on Oxford Street, London, on June 10, a few hours before she was due to board a flight back to Mumbai. She was on a two-week vacation in the city with her family. Priyanka Vora reports.
After accounting for the largest number of deaths on railway tracks and highways in the country, Maharashtra has also earned the notoriety of having the highest number of unidentified human bodies in the country last year. Pratik Salunke reports.
In a good example of how the youth is becoming more socially aware and proactive, over 35 teams from 57 colleges across the country will present community empowerment projects at the Enactus India National Competition in Mumbai on June 18 and 19. Apoorva Puranik reports.
The state government sanctioned 2,417 new self-financed schools to be run by registered trusts and societies last week. However, owing to a procedural delay, the schools are unlikely to open this academic year. More than 7,000 applications were received by the state to create new schools and upgrade existing ones. Surendra P Gangan reports.
The city’s most expensive skywalk, which is being constructed at Nana Chowk, has been delayed till August due to unfinished work pertaining to escalators and staircases. Saurabh Katkurwar reports.
The internal circular of an insurance company stating the exclusion of diseases from a medical insurance policy are not binding on the consumers, said the Mumbai district consumer forum while awarding Rs1.5 lakh as compensation to a man for health insurance claims that had been denied to him. Charul Shah reports.
The phenomenon of crucial files going missing may be more complex than it seems. Insider accounts as well as those from some people dealing with the civic body’s building proposal department reveal that the ‘disappearance’ may be to mislead people inquiring about illegalities.
Shocked with nine murders within four months, Kolhapur residents believe that a serial killer may have stuck their city.
In an exhibition titled Partner a Master, 60 artworks by 29 children — including paintings, sketches, installations and video works — are being displayed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj museum at Kala Ghoda.
The radiologists’ association has asked the state health department to inquire into news reports claiming that actor Shah Rukh Khan’s child through surrogacy is a male. Though, Khan has not confirmed the news yet.
Priyanka Vora reports.
Almost a week after Mahim’s Aftab Mansion collapsed killing 10, preliminary reports from the civic body states that no structural changes were made to the building. However, a confirmed report will be prepared within the next 15 days.
Even as potholes have begun making an appearance on several roads across the city, contractors have quoted abysmally low prices to fill trenches dug on the roads. With low prices translating into low quality of work more often than not, your ride seems set to get bumpier this monsoon.
Heavy rain combined with negligence claimed a life on Saturday when a 16-year old boy drowned in a pit dug at a construction site inside the Wadala Truck Terminal (WTT).
The Meghwadi police on Friday arrested Dilip Bhosale, a sub-inspector in the ATS's Nagpada unit, and four other for allegedly duping Irani, an Andheri (East) of Rs. 62 lakh. HT reports.
Hurt by the leaking of information on the searches carried out on bullion dealer Prithviraj Kothari, the income tax department will start checking the backgrounds of newly recruited and promoted officers who are posted in important branches like the investigation wing and central circle of the department.