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Mumbai: BMC is spending Rs 4.27 crores on an infection control product that infection control specialists do not seem to recognise. These are "anti-infective bed cover mats," and 43,000 of them are being bought for four medical college hospitals.These mats are supplied by a real estate firm, Veer Housing Projects LLP, procured from an Uttarakhand-based company called Pioneer Polyleather Pvt LTD....

Mumbai: Thanking the people of Maharashtra for BJP's resounding victory in the municipal council and nagar panchayat elections on Sunday, chief minister Devendra Fadanvis said: "I had predicted that 75% of the nagar presidents will be from the Mahayuti and the results endorse it. Nearly 3,300 corporators are from the Mahayuti. Once again, BJP is the number one party with 48% of the nagar presidents,"...

MUMBAI: At a time when India’s drug addiction crisis is deepening even as access to care remains uneven and stigmatised, researchers at Nagaland University have put forward a proposal that seeks to reframe rehabilitation for the digital age. Scholars from the university’s Department of Law have advanced the idea of a ‘Digital Rehabilitation Law’ — a forward-looking legal framework that...

MUMBAI: A video of BJP MLA from Ghatkopar (East) Parag Shah slapping a rickshaw driver for allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road. BJP functionaries said that the rickshaw driver was driving on the wrong side of the road and when Shah asked him what the urgency was, the driver replied he was in a hurry. After this, Shah slapped him. The incident reportedly took place late on Friday. Mumbai...

Mumbai: Govt departments and public authorities owe the BMC more than Rs 3,000 crore in property tax dues and the civic body has managed to recover only Rs 243 crore from them over the past five years, information shared by the BMC under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has revealed.The data was provided by the civic body in response to an RTI query filed by civic activist and advocate Godfrey...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court disposed of a public interest litigation (PIL) raising concerns over the operation of ready-mix concrete (RMC) plants in Kurla. The court observed that the petitioner failed to include necessary parties whose rights would be directly affected by any court order.A division bench of Justice Advait M. Sethna and Justice M.S. Sonak noted that while the petitioner, activist...

Court Gives A Month’s Time To Comply CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: A division bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Hiten Venegavkar of the Bombay high court directed the Nanded district collector on Dec 12 to initiate action within one month in a case of alleged encroachment on 23 acres of govt land attached to the Nanded Sikh Gurdwara. The court warned that failure to comply would require the...

Mumbai: Bombay high court has directed the state govt to extend the benefit of Rs 50 lakh compensation to the family of a zilla parishad frontline worker from Kolhapur who died of Covid in July 2021, saying the cutoff date under such a welfare scheme cannot be sacrosanct.A bench of Justices M S Karnik and Ajit B Kadethankar, while allowing a writ petition filed by the legal heirs of Yashwant Khandu...

Navi Mumbai: A 50-year-old man appearing 'disoriented' boarded the ladies' coach of a Panvel-CSMT train and pushed an 18-year-old college girl from the moving train after the women commuters told him to get down. He was arrested by the Panvel govt railway police (GRP) for attempted murder.Vijay Tayade, senior inspector, Panvel GRP, said that the arrested accused has been identified as Shaikh Akhtar...

THANE: A leopard entered a residential building in Bhayandar East on Friday, leaving three residents injured, according to initial reports. The incident took place near Talav Road and the wild animal is currently inside the Parijat building. Pune: Man-Eater Leopard Shot Dead In Pimparkhed After 3 Deaths In 20 Days Emergency services, including the fire brigade and police, have rushed to the scene....