Mumbai Social Worker

A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has acquitted three auto-rickshaw drivers accused of unlawful assembly, rioting and attempting to murder a social worker in 2012, giving them the benefit of doubt.

Social worker Appasaheb Dharmadhikari on Monday expressed grief over the death of 13 people after a ceremony in Mumbai where he was felicitated with the Maharashtra Bhushan award a day before and said the incident should not be politicised.

Nagpada Police on Friday granted bail to three MNS workers, who were arrested after a video went viral on social media, in which an elderly woman was assaulted.

Nagpada Police on Thursday arrested three MNS workers after a video went viral on social media showing a man abusing, pushing and assaulting an elderly woman.

Sanjeev Kapoor took to his Instagram to announce this heart-warming initiative for the COVID warriors.

Not a single COVID-19 case has been reported in Mumbai's Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, for the first time since the pandemic reached India earlier this year. Healthcare workers and researchers have been paying undivided attention to the situation in Dharavi as the hundreds of shanties stand wall-to-wall, and where people mostly use community toilet...

Navratri 2020 Day 4: Two videos of patients performing Garba dance at COVID-19 facilities in Mumbai have surfaced on social media. In one of the videos, a number of COVID-19 patients with masks on their faces are seen performing Garba along with health workers wearing PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) kits on a Bollywood song in a women's ward. I...

An activist accused of starting rumours with his social media posts and a television journalist who reported on a railway ministry meeting on special trains for migrants have been charged by the Maharashtra government over a gathering of hundreds at Mumbai's Bandra station last evening, which raised a huge coronavirus scare. An FIR for rioting has ...

A Maharashtra woman - allegedly a Shiv Sena worker - poured ink on a man, abused him over a social media post criticising Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in second such incident in the last few days. Last week, a Mumbai man had alleged that he was thrashed and his head was shaved by some party workers after he wrote against the Sena chief.

Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray has reacted to a Mumbai man's allegation that he was thrashed and his head was shaved by Shiv Sena workers after he wrote against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on social media. Hiramai Tiwari, a resident of Wadala, said he had commented on the Chief Minister comparing the anti-citizenship law protest at Delhi's ...

A man in Mumbai has alleged he was thrashed and his head was shaved by Shiv Sena workers after he wrote against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on social media. Hiramai Tiwari, a resident of Wadala, said he had commented on the Chief Minister comparing the anti-citizenship law protest at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia with the Jallianwala Bagh massac...

A Mumbai man has given up his career to educate people about setting up rainwater harvesting systems in order to recharge groundwater and save rainwater for reuse.

A Congress worker was allegedly stabbed to death, reportedly over a post on social media, in suburban Ghatkopar in the wee hours on Monday.

Police crackdowns and higher rents are driving Mumbai's commercial sex industry out of traditional red-light areas and underground, with calls from social workers to boost efforts to ensure sex workers' lives are not put at risk.

The naming of a road in Andheri after Priyanka Chopra's late father, Dr Ashok Chopra, apparently inconvenienced the local residents of the area. According to some locals, the entire event created 'a lot of nuisance' for people staying in the vicinity. The road was being revamped and a pandal was being erected till late in the night, much beyond the...

A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has acquitted three auto-rickshaw drivers accused of unlawful assembly, rioting and attempting to murder a social worker in 2012, giving them the benefit of doubt.

Social worker Appasaheb Dharmadhikari on Monday expressed grief over the death of 13 people after a ceremony in Mumbai where he was felicitated with the Maharashtra Bhushan award a day before and said the incident should not be politicised.

Nagpada Police on Friday granted bail to three MNS workers, who were arrested after a video went viral on social media, in which an elderly woman was assaulted.

Nagpada Police on Thursday arrested three MNS workers after a video went viral on social media showing a man abusing, pushing and assaulting an elderly woman.

Sanjeev Kapoor took to his Instagram to announce this heart-warming initiative for the COVID warriors.

Not a single COVID-19 case has been reported in Mumbai's Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, for the first time since the pandemic reached India earlier this year. Healthcare workers and researchers have been paying undivided attention to the situation in Dharavi as the hundreds of shanties stand wall-to-wall, and where people mostly use community toilet...

Navratri 2020 Day 4: Two videos of patients performing Garba dance at COVID-19 facilities in Mumbai have surfaced on social media. In one of the videos, a number of COVID-19 patients with masks on their faces are seen performing Garba along with health workers wearing PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) kits on a Bollywood song in a women's ward. I...

An activist accused of starting rumours with his social media posts and a television journalist who reported on a railway ministry meeting on special trains for migrants have been charged by the Maharashtra government over a gathering of hundreds at Mumbai's Bandra station last evening, which raised a huge coronavirus scare. An FIR for rioting has ...

A Maharashtra woman - allegedly a Shiv Sena worker - poured ink on a man, abused him over a social media post criticising Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in second such incident in the last few days. Last week, a Mumbai man had alleged that he was thrashed and his head was shaved by some party workers after he wrote against the Sena chief.

Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray has reacted to a Mumbai man's allegation that he was thrashed and his head was shaved by Shiv Sena workers after he wrote against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on social media. Hiramai Tiwari, a resident of Wadala, said he had commented on the Chief Minister comparing the anti-citizenship law protest at Delhi's ...

A man in Mumbai has alleged he was thrashed and his head was shaved by Shiv Sena workers after he wrote against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on social media. Hiramai Tiwari, a resident of Wadala, said he had commented on the Chief Minister comparing the anti-citizenship law protest at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia with the Jallianwala Bagh massac...

A Mumbai man has given up his career to educate people about setting up rainwater harvesting systems in order to recharge groundwater and save rainwater for reuse.

A Congress worker was allegedly stabbed to death, reportedly over a post on social media, in suburban Ghatkopar in the wee hours on Monday.

Police crackdowns and higher rents are driving Mumbai's commercial sex industry out of traditional red-light areas and underground, with calls from social workers to boost efforts to ensure sex workers' lives are not put at risk.

The naming of a road in Andheri after Priyanka Chopra's late father, Dr Ashok Chopra, apparently inconvenienced the local residents of the area. According to some locals, the entire event created 'a lot of nuisance' for people staying in the vicinity. The road was being revamped and a pandal was being erected till late in the night, much beyond the...