Sunchika Pandey

• 1000 cops to be deployed in Colaba during New Year celebrations

  Officers of Mumbai Police from the south region are planning to tilt, pan, zoom and function exactly like the high resolution cameras to keep an eye on miscreants in Colaba during New Year's celebrations. However, their deployment will not be limited to a day or a week, but will last for at least 15 days.Additional commissioner of police (south reg...

• Mumbai: Nine from a family die in road accident

  Nine members of a Bhandup family died around 4 am on Sunday when the Tavera they were travelling in collided with a speeding luxury bus near Utgiri village in Khed area of Ratnagiri district. The family was on their way to organise the wedding of Manisha Khetle, 27, when tragedy struck.The deceased have been identified as Anant Ganpat Khetle 55, Pr...

• Mumbai: Boy's leg amputated due to hospital's negligence

  Seventeen-year-old Yogesh Pal's family alleges he is the latest victim of doctors' negligence, after his leg had to be amputated on developing gangrene. A student of Aggarwal College in Kalyan, Pal met with an accident on October 22, and was rushed to the Dr Godbole Shree Hospital, where his leg was plastered under the supervision of Dr Vivek Malvi...

• Mumbai: Bookies mint money as Chavan's fate hangs in balance

  The Congress high command may take time to decide the state government's fate following the Adarsh society scandal, but bookies don't seem to be in a mood to wait. Bets are being placed, though the best bets are changing by the hour.Some bookies in Surat reportedly began speculating on who will become the next chief minister, in case Ashok Chavan r...

• Son jailed for trying to kill father

  The sessions court on Thursday convicted Neil Nobert Creado, 47, for attempting to murder his father Nobert Alfred Creado, 79, in March 2008. Neil was convicted under sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 323 (causing hurt) of the IPC and sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment."On March 19, 2008, I was entering my home when I heard someon...

• Mother gets son arrested for trying to snatch her house

  At 61, Habiba Ishak Khan is feeling emotionally handicapped at the betrayal of one of her sons. Her younger son Ashraf allegedly forged her signature and mortgaged her house with Central Bank to get a loan. He got support from Habiba's brother-in-law Unus Abdul Wahab Khan.The Andheri metropolitan magistrate's court recently passed directions to the...

• Standard III kid attacks boy with scissors

  "I had a small fight with my classmate. But he went and called his friends and they started hitting me. When I sat on my seat, he came running towards me and attacked me on my thigh with a pair of scissors."This is the account of a Std III student of Gyan Kendra school in Andheri. And the attacker was not some monstrous bully. It was another Std II...

• Is your kid in school? SMS will tell

  Rohan reached school safely; 1pm -- Rohan has left the institute's premises; the school bus has just crossed Vashi .  Imagine getting updates like these about the whereabouts of your child while you are at work. Wouldn't it quell the anxiety of parents? That's exactly the intention behind the Greenfingers Global School's decision to install th...

• Mumbai: 60-yr-old man abducts girl for 'sacrifice'

  According to police officials, a five-year-old girl from Mumbai's Tulsiwadi was kidnapped by a 60-year-old man, allegedly for sacrifice in connection with Navratri.Bharat Kanji Sondarva, said to be a 'guruji' of a religious sect known as the Hindu Meghwal, had set out with some 150 devotees from Tulsiwadi (near Mumbai Central) for Hadmasiya village...

• Newborns 'swapped', parents seek DNA test

  A girl was born to Prabhat and Aradhana Mishra on October 3 -- an auspicious sign just before the beginning of Navratri. They planned to call her Devi. But their smiles vanished the next day when they got an anonymous call that Aradhana had delivered a boy, who was swapped with a girl.The Mishras called back on the number to find that it was from a...

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  Guarding us without beds, homes

  Clothes hung out to dry, a jawan washing up after work, beds laid out for a much needed break.

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  AI plane catches fire; probe ordered

  A Boeing 747 sircraft caught fire at the airport in Mumbai on Friday. However, there were no casualties.

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  Mumbai bus mishap victims' account

  Two child victims, Aditya Vaidya and Nikhil Khond, of the bus fire gave NDTV a first person account of what happened on Thursday.

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  MCOCA dropped against Malegaon accused

  The Maharashtra ATS says it will challenge the order in the High Court.

• Maharashtra schools allowed to hike fees

  Educating your child in Mumbai has just got more expensive.