BMC’S COVID WORK ‘EXEMPLARY’, MUMBAI MODEL TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN DELHI

June 10, 2021

MUMBAI In addition to preventing the spread of Covid-19, BMC is working tirelessly to provide more effective medical treatment to the Covid affected people. Despite many challenges, including population density, the work done by the BMC is being positively acknowledged from time to time at the state, national, and global...

COVAXIN TRIALS BEGIN FOR CHILDREN IN NAGPUR

June 7, 2021

Bharat Biotech launched the clinical trial of Covaxin on children in the age group of 12-18 years in Maharashtra’s second capital Nagpur. Of the four locations shortlisted by Bharat Biotech across the country, Nagpur is one of them. The trial was conducted at the Meditrina Hospital under the supervision of...

HEMA MALINI TO ATTEND REIKI HEALING FOUNDATION TRUST’S FREE WORKSHOP

June 3, 2021

Dream Girl Hema Malini, who herself has been a Reiki Channel and practitioner for four decades, will attend the Reiki Healing Foundation (RHF) Trust’s world largest free training workshop with 21000 participants on 7 June. It is the first time in the history of “Energy Medicine” that a free mega...

Religious bodies rise to Covid occasion, turn premises into vaccination hubs

June 3, 2021

With religious places currently shut for public due to the ongoing lockdown, many temples, churches, gurdwaras and mosques have offered their premises to be converted to vaccination centres, thus helping the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in achieving its target of having a vaccination centre in each ward. Mumbai’s St Michael...

FADNAVIS-PAWAR ‘GOODWILL MEET’ SPARKS SPECULATION

June 1, 2021

Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly Devendra Fadnavis met NCP chief Sharad Pawar at the latter’s residence here on Monday morning. It was a courtesy meeting, BJP leader Fadnavis tweeted after his interaction with Pawar, who has resumed his activities after recovering from a surgery. Taking to the microblogging...

SUSHANT SINGH’S FRIEND PITHANI ARRESTED IN DRUG CASE

May 29, 2021

Sushant Singh Rajput’s roommate Siddharth Pithani has been arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) nearly a year after the actor’s death in Mumbai, which is being investigated by multiple agencies. PIthani was arrested By NCB from his Hyderabad house and bought to Mumbai on Friday morning, Pithani was produced...

TARUN TEJPAL ACQUITTED IN RAPE CASE BY GOA COURT

May 22, 2021

Panaji: Former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal was acquitted by a Goa court on Friday. He had been accused of raping a colleague at his magazine’s event at a five-star resort in North Goa in 2013 and arrested on November 30 the same year. He denied all charges against him and...

MAHARASHTRA MODEL VILLAGE SHOWS HOW TO KEEP COVID AT BAY

May 21, 2021

The model village of Hiware Bazar in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra is showing the way on how to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. From 1-20 May, there has not been a single case of Covid-19 in Hiware Bazar, located in the Nagar tehsil. Over the last three decades, the village that...

Navy, Coast Guard rescue 319 from two barges

May 19, 2021

Battling extreme weather, the Indian Navy and Coast Guard have so far rescued 319 people on board two barges that went adrift in the Arabian Sea near Mumbai hours before Cyclone Tauktae made landfall on the Gujarat coast, an official said on Tuesday. Three barges and an oil rig with...

States brace for ‘very severe cyclonic storm’ as Shah holds meeting with CMs

May 17, 2021

The severe cyclonic storm ‘Tauktae’ over east central Arabian Sea moved nearly northwards with a speed of about 9kmph in six hours and intensified into a ‘very severe cyclonic storm’ on Sunday, reported the India Meteorological Department (IMD). It lay centred over the east central Arabian Sea, about 150 km...