Disease not confined to poorer areas; more than 50% cases reported from non-slum pockets. Nandkishor Sathe (name changed) had a bout of vomiting after two days of viral fever.

The oil spill on the Uran coast close to Mumbai is larger than what was estimated, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has said.

ONGC, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board say the spill is minor

On Monday, Naushad Qureshi returned from the sea with a net full of dead fish. The thick film of black grease that covered his net was the result of an oil spill from the ONGC plant along the Uran coast. Nearly 1,000 litres of crude oil has washed into the sea, according to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). The Board says the spill is a minor one.

Criticism forces municipality to finalise a long-debated policy on mobile towers, authorising only one on every building.