Mumbai cops frame charges against Catholic priest for sodomy
2017-03-02
The priest allegedly abused a teenage boy from his parishContinue Reading
World’s heaviest woman lands In Mumbai for surgery
2017-02-12
Mumbai: Eman Ahmed, termed the heaviest women in the world, today landed in Mumbai for weight reduction treatment at a local facility. Ms Ahmed, 36, landed at Mumbai international airport around 4 am. Ms Ahmed was lifted, along with the bed on which she laid while travelling, with the help ofContinue Reading
World AIDS day observed
2016-12-04
Mumbai : World AIDS day was observed on, 1st December with a Human Chain by Sarva Seva Sangh, an organisation working with people and children living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, Holy Spirit Hospital and Mahakali Caves Road ALM for public awareness. The Human Chain was organised on Mahakali Caves Road,Continue Reading
Maharashtra asks schools to conduct Art of Living programs
2016-11-22
Only interested students should be roped into the workshopsContinue Reading
Space-starved churches push for shroud burials instead of coffins
2016-07-31
Mumbai:Space constraint is forcing churches in Mumbai to opt for green solutions for disposing of the dead. In the last six months, the St Blaise Church, Amboli, has had at least 15 shroud burials (body wrapped in cloth and lowered into the grave). The coffin was not used by familiesContinue Reading
Christians to protest draft development plan errors on Monday
2016-07-16
Mumbai: The minority Christian community will stage a protest at Azad Maidan on Monday against errors, omissions and designating road-widening projects on many Church-run schools across the city in the draft development plan (DP). “We are very concerned that the discrepancies pointed out by us when the earlier draft wasContinue Reading
One sixth of adolescent boys in Mumbai consume tobacco
2016-06-07
Of the various drugs abused, the most widely distributed and commonly used drug in the world is ‘tobacco’. A study titled “Prevalence of Tobacco Consumption in School Going Adolescent Boys in Urban Slum of Mumbai”, conducted by doctors of R N Cooper Hospital, has found that one in every sixthContinue Reading
Low marks: Girl wins case against coaching center
2016-05-28
Oxford Tutors Academy offers in-home tutoring to studentsContinue Reading
Building collapses in Mumbai; 6 dead, several trapped
2016-04-30
Mumbai: A three-storey building collapsed in Mumbai on Saturday afternoon, killing six people and trapping many others, civic officials said. Five people were rescued from the debris of the building in Kamathipura area of Grant Road, which caved in at around 2pm, a fire brigade official said. Two of theContinue Reading
High Court judge heads Bombay archdiocesan grievance committee
2016-04-23
Justice Aloysius Stanislaus Aguiar, former judge of the Bombay High Court, heads the committeeContinue Reading