Break-in experts
If you saw them sitting at your neighbourhood coffee house, you would think they were a bunch of management professionals unwinding after a hard days work. But dressed in impeccable formals and speaking in fluent English, the five rarely talked shop in public. And if they...
Deep throat in city: info on Amit Shah came from these 2
Two men who are feeding information to the Central Bureau of Investigation, helping the agency build a case against former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah, are in Mumbai...
Malaria vivax now attacking hearts, docs left baffled
A dangerous mutation of malaria vivax strain is leading to heart attacks among patients, citys top cardiologists revealed on Monday. Doctors have come across eight such cases at four hospitals Hinduja, Jupiter, Breach Candy and Lilavati in the past week or so. All eight patients,...
I was Blackmailed: trader accused of rape in suicide note
The Ahmedabad trader, accused of raping his business partner’s wife, left a message for his alleged victim before consuming pesticide on July 22. In his suicide note, Dhirubhai Patel, who is battling for life at Nair Hospital, said, “By consuming four sleeping pills, she can’t prove she was raped… she ...
KEM Dean’s Gandhigiri campaign
Tired of repeated complaints about the dirty environs of his hospital, KEM dean Dr Sanjay Oak has decided to trade his white gown for a yellow one and take charge of the situation.On Monday, he and 300 other doctors of the hospital will pick-up brooms, slip into specially ordered...
Hair remover in conditioner, atta spiked with vim
While domestic violence cases often reveal ugly brawls and horror stories, a woman from Goregaon has accused her husband of resorting to ingeniously petty means to harass her for dowry over the course of their six-month marriage. In a petition filed in the family court, the 26-year...
Shaken by choppy sea, NDRF dumped sewri cylinders
The 700-kg, chlorine-laden cylinder that washed up at Worli late Wednesday evening creating panic, could soon be followed ashore by his big brother -- a 1,536-kg barrel carrying 900 kg of the gas. The two cylinders, part of the Bombay Port Trust's dangerous Sewri pile that leaked...
Bugs and roaches spark passenger revolt at kurla
A passenger revolt prevented a long-distance train from chugging out of Kurlas Lokmanya Tilak Terminus early on Wednesday. The Saket Express, which was to start its 1,505-km, two-day journey from Mumbai to Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh at 5.20 am, could proceed only two...
Toilet cheat
As far as corruption goes, this stinks. An investigation carried out by Mumbai Mirror reader Rajil Menon has revealed that contractors maintaining pay-and-use restrooms at suburban railway stations fleece lakhs of rupees from commuters every month.The railway rulebook says a...
Gold & beautiful
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is the country's richest municipal body and now its got a crown befitting that status.The main dome of BMCs headquarters at Fort in south Mumbai has a got a coat of gold. The gilding work, a part of a massive project to restore the colonial...