Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Cops arrest 3 women, detain 4 from AP, rescue two kids

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Damani Multi-Speciality Hospital to increase its bed capacity to 1,000 on Piyush Goyal`s suggestion

Borivali in North Mumbai will soon boast of the biggest hospital in Mumbai in terms of bed capacity, thanks to the intervention of Union Minister Piyush Goyal who is the BJP`s and Mahayuti candidate for North Mumbai for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. After going through the presentation, speaking on the occasion of the curtain raiser for Damani Multi Speciality Hospital in Borivali, Piyush Goyal suggested to the Hospital management to consider enhancing the bed capacity to 1,000 from the present plan of 400 in view of the expanding health needs of the population of North Mumbai. He said that North Mumbai deserves the best state of health infrastructure and he would do his utmost to ensure that no one`s healthcare is compromised on the ground of easy access to a world-class health facility in the area. (ANI)

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Inter-state child selling racket: Mumbai cops arrest 3 women, detain 4 from AP, rescue two kids

Three women working as fertility agents and egg donors were arrested on Monday in connection with an inter-state child selling racket that was busted a day earlier, while two children were rescued from Ahmednagar and Telangana capital Hyderabad, a Mumbai police official said. So far, the Crime Branch has arrested 10 persons in the racket and rescued four children, he said. (PTI)

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: 21kg gold, other items worth Rs 13.80 cr seized at Mumbai airport in 1 week; 9 passengers held

The Customs department has seized 20.95 kg of gold valued at Rs 13.57 crore and Rs 23 lakh worth of electronics goods, tobacco items and cigarettes, all smuggled by passengers at the Mumbai International Airport last week, officials said on Monday. During the investigation, nine passengers who arrived at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) were arrested by Mumbai Customs for bringing these items illegally into the country, an official said.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday trained his guns on NCP leader Sharad Pawar, and blamed "wandering souls" for ushering in an era of political instability in Maharashtra 45 years ago. Though he did not name Pawar, it was apparent that the reference was to the Maratha politician`s rebellion against then-chief minister Vasantdada Patil in 1978. Pawar, with backing of 40 MLAs, had then formed the Progressive Democratic Front, leading to the collapse of the Patil-led dispensation, and was at 38 sworn in as the CM on July 18, 1978. (PTI)