16 killed in Mumbai mishap

At least sixteen persons belonging to a marriage party, including 10 women and three children, died and four others injured when their speeding tempo trax rammed a tanker on the Mumbai-Pune expressway near Panvel on Sunday morning, reports DHNS. The trax with a capacity to carry 10 persons was cramped with 19 passengers and was bringing the marriage party from Satara district to Kurla in Mumbai. At around 4.45 am, the trax, which was moving at a high speed of 130 kms/hr, hit the tanker from behind. The impact was so powerful that seven of the passengers were killed on the spot, while others died in the hospital.

Ambani’s Rs 5-crore offering

Five mobile digital screens worth about Rs 5 crore will soon be donated to Lord Venkateswara Temple at Tirumala near here by Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, reports DHNS, quoting temple sources.Mukesh Ambani accompanied by family members  arrived at Tirumala Hills on Saturday  night, and officially handed over the guest house built by his Reliance Company  at the Hills to the temple authorities. In a brief ceremony, Eesha, the daughter of Mukesh Ambani inaugurated the guest house which was constructed at a cost of Rs 10 crores.

Country’s first food expo in Mumbai

Over a thousand delegates from around the world will take part in the first ever food exhibition in the country, which opens in Mumbai on Tuesday, reports IANS.

Executives and experts in food supplies and support system from various countries will discuss the future development of food and beverages, both in the national as well as the international market, and also the ways to make India a food rich country. The two-day expo — Food Forum India (FFI) — will begin at the Renaissance Convention Centre, north central Mumbai.

Mercury climbs further, 5 more die

The debilitating heat claimed five lives in Orissa, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, reports PTI from New Delhi. The mercury climbed further as Delhi, Shimla and Churu recorded the season’s highest temperature and dust storms buffeted parts of the northern belt on Sunday. Overcast skies and a weather forecast about squalls at a few places in the next two days has however offered hope for a respite.