Thane: Nine bodies, recovered from the debris of the unauthorised building in Shil Phata area in the district, which crashed on Thursday killing 74 people, are yet to be identified. Officials said four bodies were at the Civil Hospital here, while five were at CSM Civic Hospital in Kalwa. All other bodies have been identified.
Meanwhile, bodies of 11 labourers hailing from Malda in West Bengal, who were among the victims, were flown back to their home state on Saturday night. Many of the victims were construction workers from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal.
The seven-storey unauthorised building at Shil Phata in Mumbra in the district had come down crashing in a heap on Thursday evening, in the worst tragedy of its kind in Maharashtra, which left 72 people dead so far.
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08:49 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said that India needed to fight communal forces effectively for its economic and social development. ...
02:51 PM, Mar 16, 2013
In a shocking case, most of the 100 women in a semi-conscious state who underwent ligation procedure at a sterilisation camp at a rural health centre in Malda district were abandoned in an open field adjacent to the facility. ...
07:05 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Four new-born children died in Malda Medical College and Hospital in Malda in this district headquarter town of Malda district. ...
01:26 AM, Jan 10, 2013
Deepa Dasmunsi, the bete noire of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and another union minister from West Bengal on Saturday visited Malda Medical College and Hospital where 37 infants died in six days since Saturday. ...
06:33 PM, Dec 01, 2012
Three more babies have died in Malda Medical College in West Bengal in the past 24 hours taking the toll to 27 dead since last Saturday. The state government has rushed the Chairman of Task Force of Infant Mortality to Malda. The hospital defence is that the three babies were suffering from birth asphyxia and hypothermia and were already in a critical condition. ...
02:46 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Three more infants have died in the past 24 hours in the Malda Medical college in West Bengal. This has taken the death toll to 22 since Saturday. ...
10:58 AM, Nov 28, 2012
52 children dead in just one month, 28 in ten days. The horror continues at Malda Medical College. ...
09:35 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Six more infant deaths have been reported from the Medical College Hospital in Malda in West Bengal in the past 24 hours. This takes the toll to 19 deaths since Saturday. Hospital authorities maintain that the infants were brought in a critical condition from the adjoining North and South Dinajpur districts and all of them were suffering from malnutrition. ...
08:16 AM, Nov 27, 2012
Nineteen babies have died in Malda Medical College Hospital since Saturday, hospital authorities said on Monday. Of the 19 babies, six have died since Sunday, they said, adding Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare AH Khan Chowdhury is monitoring the situation. ...
10:30 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Wednesday embark on a five-day tour of the Congress bastions in the state. She is expected to visit Malda, Murshidabad, North and South Dinajpur districts. The visit, however, has not gone down too well with the Congress, which has accused her of misusing government machinery to bring in crowds at her rallies. While addressing the foundation day programme of the Trinamool...
09:00 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Guwahati: To travel across all 28 states of India and neighbouring Bhutan in a Tata Nano car covering around 25,000 kms is no easy task. Yet, this is being attempted by 62-year-old Kochi-based car enthusiast Thomas Chacko, who has so far covered 5,400 km in the small car and reached Guwahati on Saturday. Starting his journey from Mumbai on May 3, Chacko has so far travelled through Indore, Bhopal, Khajuraho,...
07:40 PM, May 20, 2012
Malda (WB): Two infants died at Malda Medical College and Hospital, taking the toll of newborn death to 11 in a week, officials sources said on Tuesday. One baby died on Tuesday while another one died late on Monday night, officials said. The babies were brought to the hospital in a critical condition with respiratory problem and were underweight, doctors said. Earlier on April 6, nine babies had died in...
07:58 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Kolkata: Eleven babies have died in the last 2 days at the Malda Medical College and Hospital in the Malda district where barely two months back 20 newborns had died. Over 210 deaths have been reported this year from this same hospital. Six of the 11 babies were less than 28 days old. There's no clarity yet on what was the cause of the deaths Six of them died in...
08:07 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Malda: Nine babies died within a space of 12 hours at the Malda Medical College and Hospital in the district where barely two months back 20 newborns had died. Of the the nine babies, who died between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, seven were aged between one and 26 days while two others were between the ages of six and eight months, hospital sources said. Six of them died in...
02:52 PM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Taking cognizance of deaths of new-born babies in various hospitals of West Bengal, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Tuesday said it has asked the state government to spell out, in detail, the steps taken to tackle the situation. "We have sought the details from the state government on the measures initiated to tackle the situation," said panel member Vinod Kumar Tikoo. Several infant...
07:59 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: In West Bengal, two more deaths have taken place at the Malda Medical College. Over a 100 babies have died in the region this year itself. As always, doctors claimed that the infants were malnourished and critical when brought to the hospital. West Bengal has been witnessing an increasing number of infant deaths at government facilities. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has attributed the deaths to malnutrition...
03:07 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Kolkata: Barely a week after 40 babies were reported dead in Malda, there have been more deaths. Ten infants have been reported dead in Bankura district over 48 hours. The West Bengal government has cited malnutrition and under-weight as the reasons for the deaths. Incidentally, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who also holds the health portfolio, has been dismissive, saying that child mortality in fact has dropped in the...
03:11 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday dismissed the opposition charge that the recent crib deaths in state-run hospitals in Malda and Murshidabad were due to medical negligence. "In Malda, 8,000 babies are born outside hospitals. In Murshidabad too, non-institutional births run into several thousands. These babies who are brought to hospitals do not die due to negligence. But if negligence occurs, the guilty will be punished," Banerjee...
05:26 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Malda: It's being called West Bengal's shame. Over 100 infants have died in state-run hospitals in January alone in Malda district. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who also holds the health portfolio, had promised to act, but the tragedy continues. The Malda Medical College and Hospital has inadequate infrastructure, doctors are few, and even those who are there are busy with private practices. Malda Medical College and Hospital has...
01:09 PM, Jan 30, 2012
