'Given the first-time healthcare emergency of this nature and scale, we don't have enough experienced hands to deal with the situation.' 'The models, policies and protocols keep changing everyday depending upon the evolving situation.' 'We are all in trial-and-error mode where we do some right things as well as wrong things.' 'We cannot have an ideal environment to fight this pandemic.'
This season of LFW has been a "colourful, bizarre, exciting adventure" for 20-year-old Rediff.com's Kshamaya Daniel, who viewed it for the first time.
Amonkar was recognised as one of the foremost singers in the Hindustani tradition and as an innovative exponent of the Jaipur gharana.
In a blow to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's apparent attempt to score brownie points over its arch rival Shiv Sena, the Bombay high court on Friday refused to grant permission to the Raj Thackeray-led party to hold a public meeting at Shivaji Park in central Mumbai.
One person was killed and at least three were injured as a ledge-like structure on which several viewers were standing, collapsed during the Ganesh immersion procession in Central Mumbai Sunday.
'When the virus, in a way, tires itself out, because it is not finding any more people to attack or keep itself viable, that is when the peak actually has been reached and you are on the downward limb (of the curve).'
A 20-year-old Kshamaya Daniel has her first experience of an Indian fashion week. She survives it to pen this photo diary of her colourful, adrenaline-packed experiences.
'My biggest challenge is to keep motivating my staff to do their best without compromising on their safety even as we all strive to do our best for the patients under our care.'
The building did not have the mandatory Occupation Certificate granted by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, but it was already occupied by around 58 flat owners, according to the civic body.
"I asked everyone to keep the purifiers on their mouth. This stopped them from suffocating due to smoke and they were able to breath well, preventing inhalation of carbon dioxide," she said.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Monday spoke in support of the attack on Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan by right-wing activists for his Kashmir remark.
Mumbai has the richest Municipality in the country. And adding colour and spice to the civic polls that are to take place on February 16, are several elements from the under world. Interestingly, it is not the criminals themselves who are in the fray, but their kin. Rediff.com's Ganesh Nadar talks to some of them.
Perhaps because his wounds were serious, she was not taken to see her husband and the scared young woman, wearing a simple sari and bright vermillion sindhoor, began to sob sadly as the tension of waiting endlessly in the chaotic hospital lobby became unbearable.
Party chief Uddhav Thackeray, Yuva Sena leader Aditya Thackeray and former CM Manohar Joshi, among others, paid tributes.
The Mumbai power cuts come amid concerns about wider blackouts across the country due to a shortage of coal.
Heavy rains on Monday lashed Mumbai and some other parts of Maharashtra, leaving two persons dead and paralysing normal life, officials said.
Why Aaditya Thackeray's decision to plunge into electoral politics is significant.
Miss Teen World 2019 Sushmita Singh shares her inspiring journey to the top.
Reliance Infocomm Ltd has deployed its first wireless Point of Sale terminal in Mumbai for processing credit card transactions.\n\n\n\n
'It is a bigger challenge for Mumbai because we have a dense population and people are staying in very, very small rooms.' 'So even if there is one case, then it can spread to you know, four or five people are staying together.'
'Earlier it was a stigma to discuss mental problems. But I get more patients for past life regression as in India people believe in rebirth and karma,' Dr Prakriti Poddar, who uses hypnotism to treat illnesses, tells A Ganesh Nadar.
And while the owner of the Chevrolet, which held Sheena's remains, will be examined on October 16 in Judge Jagdale's court, it is Indrani's response to the prosecution's reply to her bail application that will be the focus of everyone's attention.
A brief history of Mumbai's tryst with bomb blasts
This week was the first time Peter and Indrani appeared in court no longer married, footloose and fancy free once again, even if in jail.
A month after three blasts ripped through south and central Mumbai's business districts, Abhishek Mande takes a tour of the blast sites.
A Ganesh Nadar meets victims of the 13/7 triple blasts in Mumbai and tries to gauge the immeasurable damage that has been caused to their lives.
The close-onto four years (since November 2015) Peter has spent in Arthur Road jail, central Mumbai, in judicial custody, have taken their toll, lending him a bit of a melancholy stoop, a laborious gait and a tired face, turning him prematurely into a much older man than his nearly 64 years. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com reports from the Sheena Bora murder trial.
There will be three-tiered security arrangements in view of PM's visit.
The Election Commission sent a notice to Mangal Prabhat Lodha, the BJP's Mumbai chief. This is probably because a leading newspaper highlighted his utterances on its front page.
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The night before Sheena was allegedly killed, 'Indrani Madam instructed me to not send anyone up to her flat.' 'She told me to especially not allow Rahul Mukerjea.'
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Waterlogging has been reported in several parts of city.
A police sub-inspector, posted in naxal-infested Gadchiroli district, has been booked on charges of raping a 21-year-old wife of an Australian national working in an airline and extorting money from her, police said on Monday.
Karti and Mukerjea were brought face-to-face and questioned by the CBI team for about four hours.
'Give him a chance to live,' Peter's lawyer told the court.
Was any cricketer missing at the skipper's wedding reception in Mumbai?
'If we cannot handle an epidemic of that strata, (causing that kind) of excessive calamity, then we really have to prevent it.' 'If we become complacent in even preventing it, then we are in for a disaster.'
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