Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Maharashtra Health Minister Prakash Abitkar on Tuesday directed health insurance companies and hospitals to keep policyholders at the centre of their services, while assuring that the state government will examine complaints received from insured patients. He was speaking at a joint meeting held at Mantralaya in Mumbai with representatives of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI), private insurance companies, and private hospitals to discuss issues related to delays in claim approvals and allegedly excessive medical billing by hospitals. We are closing the LIVE blog 

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: The Bombay High Court denied underworld gangster Abu Salem permission to visit his native Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh to mourn his brother’s death. We are now closing the LIVE Blog