Sakshi and Rohit managed to make it out of the Kamala Mills fire and get themselves treated for burns.
'Predictions are that numbers will continue to rise till May end and maybe in the first half of June will be our peak.'
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday visited victims of the blasts in suburban trains who are being treated at Sion and King Edward Memorial hospitals in Mumbai.
Actor Navin Nischol passed away on Saturday morning after suffering from a heart attack in Mumbai.He is best known for his television show Dekh Bhai Dekh and films like Khosla ka Ghosla and Sawan Bhadon. He was last seen in the Imran Khan and Deepika Padukone-starrer Break ke Baad.
'We started analysing young patients and realised that they had causes like undetected diabetes, which suddenly flares up during COVID-19.' 'Secondly, hypothyroidism was one of the factors.' 'And obesity.'
'65 per cent were males.' 'Age group of deaths: More were seen from age 51 to 70.' 'Saw some deaths from age 21 to the 40s.' 'About 76 to 77 per cent of patient deaths had some kind of a comorbidity.' 'The main comorbidities were the presence of diabetes, hypertension, some kind of heart diseases.'
Waterlogging has been reported in several parts of city.
Heavy rains lashed Mumbai and its suburbs on Wednesday, causing flooding on roads and rail tracks and disrupting suburban train services as the south-west monsoon arrived in the city with a bang, while the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an alert for more downpour.
The metropolis also saw two other incidents of wall collapse amid heavy rains since Friday, injuring five persons.
Mumbai received 231.4 mm rain in the last 24 hours, while Thane received 229.81 mm.
The doctors called off their five-day strike after Fadnavis on Friday gave an ultimatum to striking resident doctors to resume duty or face legal action.
'When you are on these drugs, there is a possibility that you come to the hospital late, just by virtue of the fact that you believe that things are going to turn around, because you are on all these medicines.'
The toll due to consumption of spurious liquor in the Malad area of Mumbai climbed to 94 with the death of four more persons on Sunday.
'The josh is very high as we fight this global pandemic.'
A 58-year-old man died after a power transformer fell on him in Raigad district. 2 people died and 3 were injured in two separate cyclone-related incidents in Pune.
'I didn't get the ticket because I am a Tamil and this is a Tamil area. I work for all people and that is why the majority voted for me.'
The civic authorities have moved to clear roads which have become slushy and strewn with garbage, and are also gearing up to tackle rush of patients in municipal hospitals.
The Indian Meteorological Department, meanwhile, warned of intense spell of 30 to 50 mm rainfall per hour with strong winds in Mumbai and suburban areas.
A first person account of the train-walk-bike-taxi journey on Wednesday to the office, which is usually covered in an hour, took five-long but enlightening hours, as the city observed a bandh called against violence on the anniversary of a battle fought 200 years ago.
'Just because someone ruined your face doesn't mean you stop being beautiful.' 'Life goes on.'
Navi Mumbai is emerging as the next big real estate location.
Waterlogging was reported from areas like Dadar, Wadala, Worli, Kurla, Chembur, Bandra, Andheri, Kandivili, Vikhroli, Kanjurmarg and Bhandup, among others.
Resident doctors are the engines that run hospitals. For the patient, they are the face, hands, and voice of the hospital.
'Unless the living conditions change here, no amount of testing, screening, treatment would make a difference.'
The metropolis has received heavy rains in the last 24 hours.
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Geeta Sridhar took in 28 children ailing with cancer into her home, and made them her own.
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