Big B hospitalised on birthday

Sunday 12 October '08

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who turned 66 on Saturday, was rushed to Nanavati hospital in Vile Parle this morning after he complained of acute abdominal pain late on Friday night.

State to get memory clinics to aid elderly patients

Friday 10 October '08

While mental health is largely associated with adolescence, with the rapid rise in senior population across the country, governments have recently acknowledged geriatric mental health as a public issue.

Complications due to drugs in HIV+ patients new challenge, say doctors

Tuesday 7 October '08

Approximately 600 HIV-positive patients at the state-run J J Hospital and many others in the Anti-Retroviral Therapy treatment centres in the country are currently developing toxicity due to the treatment.

Smoking ban: Day One of mixed emotions and missing enforcers

Friday 3 October '08

As the clock inched towards midnight on Wednesday night, the manager at one of the city’s most famous pubs in Bandra, Toto’s Garage, began requesting patrons to stub their cigarettes..

A clinic exclusively for women, run exclusively by women

Monday 29 September '08

For women who believe only the female of the species understands them, this is refreshing news; A women’s clinic, a one-stop-shop for all medical dilemmas women have to deal with.

Report says maternal mortality rate on rise, but civic body claims it’s a system error

Tuesday 16 September '08

Civic officials on Monday informed that data published in the recently released Enviroment Status Report by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on moratlity rates in the city may be incorrect as there could be a serious lapse in the recording system after the civic body’s adoption of the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning System.

WALKING ON AIR

Sunday 4 May '08

With 40,000 cabin crew jobs set to open up in the next five years, flying has become a dream for girls from as far apart as Nagaland and Raipur, Ulhasnagar and Ludhiana.

Behind the tragic image, story of a 'perfectionist manager'

Wednesday 19 March '08

Hussein Bootwala was afraid of heights. Yet, when an explosion shook the four-storey Retiwalla Industrial Estate...

3 Mumbai schoolkids die as van’s LPG ablaze, vehicle had no permit

Tuesday 29 January '08

Three children died and nine were injured when a Maruti Omni van ferrying them home from school caught fire at Jogeshwari in Mumbai...

Nandurbar baby face of breast-feeding campaign

Tuesday 11 September '07

A just-born baby from Nandurbar, one of Maharashtra’s most backward areas, is fast becoming the bearer of an important infant nutrition message...

Srikrishna report takes centrestage at minorities panel meet

Thursday 6 September '07

Anger, resentment and memories of the financial capital's worst ever communal riots, not dulled in the least by the 14 years that have passed since 1992-93

Remains of that day

Sunday 8 July '07

They survived one of Mumbai’s worst terror attacks: blasts in seven suburban trains that claimed 187 lives.

Sex museum is moving, but it’s not due to moral police

Wednesday 4 July '07

Antarang, Mumbai’s only one, is aimed at spreading awareness among sex workers about HIV/AIDS

Husband in coma after 7/11, HSC result brings hope

Monday 11 June '07

Finally, this 24-year-old cleared her Std XII exams. But when the HSC results were declared, Priti Sawant didn’t exult. She wore a small...

Amol was among state’s top shooters

Monday 7 May '07

At 25, Amol Chauhan, a director at Parle Products Private Limited, the biscuit and confectionaries major...

With Railways, families try to put 7/11 behind

Thursday 12 April '07

Mumbai Central Station doesn’t intimidate Katha anymore. For, after her husband Hriday was killed in the 7/11 train blasts, it has become her workplace.

To celebrate efficiency, company used initials to brand products

Monday 22 January '07

At Sachin Khanna’s new residence at Kandivali, there’s a plastic cover on the nameplate.

Recruitment consultant, wife was on another train

Monday 8 January '07

Twenty-eight years ago, when Louis Sequeria first saw Clara’s photograph in his cousin’s wedding album...

Worked by day and studied at night to be an engineer

Tuesday 26 December '06

Arun Patole was like any other struggling Mumbaiite who worked hard throughout his life to be finally able to move from his BDD chawl in Worli to a two-bedroom home in Nallasopara.

A bank agent, his favourite movie was Anand

Friday 8 December '06

Gracy wished she could feel better sitting at her newly-built balcony, something her husband Michael had started but couldn’t complete.

A railway engineer, came from Ajmer in 1979

Sunday 26 November '06

For 17-year-old Akash, his father’s shoes are his most prized possession. Preparing for his higher secondary examinations these days...

Insurance officer; now 18-year-old daughter

Saturday 4 November '06

It took the Killawalas a year-and-a-half to finally move into their well-furnished dream home in Vile Parle.

Successful comedian, would take train from Churchgate so he could get window seat

Thursday 26 October '06

For Shyam Sunder Sharma, his family was his last audience. “Before leaving home on 7/11 he said: ‘I have switched many businesses right from dealing in tomatoes to starting a milk shop.

Peon with MTNL, had a son just two months earlier

Wednesday 18 October '06

Like any father, Ajit Pangle was excited about his newborn. More than everything else that comes with the birth of a son in a middle-class household, he knew he had one extra reason to be happy about: at last he had someone who would fulfil his own unfulfilled ambitions.

Office boy chasing MBA dream, lost son to malaria

Tuesday 12 September '06

For Shweta Futane, life has been harsh. A wife at 18, she lost her two-month-old son Mayank to malaria in May. Now at 19, she is a widow.