"It can now be safely accepted that high-income families with increased access to techniques of sex determination are the ones which are going in for selective abortions rather than the low-income group areas," according to a senior health ministry official. To counter this, the government was working on a strategy to crack down on mushrooming ultrasound clinics in these areas.
Refusing to grant additional time to the accused in the July 11 serial blasts to prepare themselves, a special MCOCA court on Thursday discharged the first witness and summoned the second witness in the trial on January 11.
VHP secretary Professor Venkatesh Abdeo said the case has been filed under Sections 295 A and 153 A of the Indian penal code in the Borivali metropolitan court of Magistrate N H Mohabe.
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Shopkeepers, customers and some residents are suspected to be amongst those trapped, police said.
The deceased include three men, six women and a girl while four of the injured have been discharged after being administered primary treatment, they said.
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The petitioners challenged the reclamation and construction work for the project on the primary ground that it will result in damage to the coastline and destroy major marine life along the coast and livelihood of the fishermen.
Nine years after seven RDX bombs kept in Mumbai suburban trains exploded killing 188 people, a Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court is likely to pronounce its verdict on Friday.
Chandrashekhar Sawant halted the train by applying the emergency brake when he saw the debris falling as the train was approaching the collapsing bridge.
Mumbai received 231.4 mm rain in the last 24 hours, while Thane received 229.81 mm.
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A 14-year-old girl who was gang-raped allegedly by two youth earlier this month in the neighbouring Raigad district, was also molested by a local Nationalist Congress Party leader on the very same day of the incident, the police said.
With this, the death count in the August 2 night tragedy has gone up to 28, while 12 people are still missing.
'In Mumbai you are only safe once you reach home. You never know what will happen.'
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'There may be more rebels and they will also face similar action,' Munde said.
The leopard, a four-year-old female, was trapped on the Borivali-Thane Ghodbunder road, forest officials said. The trap was one of the 35 set by forest authorities in and around the national park.
A new complaint was on Wednesday filed at the suburban Borivali police station in Mumbai against 'godwoman' Radhe Maa alleging her involvement in promoting superstition.
"Kumar was travelling with a friend in his car on the Andheri-Kurla Link Road when four persons in a Qualis came parallel to their car and pointed a gun at him. They Qualis later overtook them," DCP Ravindra Shengaonkar said.
A spurned lover allegedly tried to force his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend to consume acid in suburban Borivali in Mumbai, police said on Sunday.
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The heart, that set out its journey from Pune's Ruby Hall clinic at 1.38 am reached the operation theatre in Fortis Hospital at 3.13 am.
Bollywood mega star Amitabh Bachchan was yet again at the Wankhede stadium to cheer for Mumbai Indians.
In their letter to the CM, they have alleged that Pratyusha's boyfriend and actor-producer Rahul Raj Singh was "solely responsible for her death".
"Does the offence of indecency and obscenity under section 110 of the Bombay Police Act stand against her (Radhe Maa) as she (Radhe Maa) claims that it happened inside four walls?" the high court asked.
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