15,000 trees are reportedly already on site Mumbai: Over 75,000 trees have been planned for Coastal Road’s 130-acre gardens, which will create a vast new green lung for Mumbai, said Reliance Foundation chairperson Nita Ambani on Friday. She said work on the project has commenced, with a team of landscape architects, ecologists and engineers working…
NCP (SP) MLA Jitendra Awhad questioned govt’s decision to locate the facility in a densely populated residential area Thane: NCP (SP) on Friday accused Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) of pushing through a proposed 54-acre data centre project of a tech giant in Balkum without transparency, alleging that citizens and elected representatives were kept in the…
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde Mumbai: Though the six rebel Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs who are expected to switch over to the Shiv Sena stayed away from the event marking the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the party at the Nesco ground in Goregaon on Friday, deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde could not stay…
Mumbai: Mumbai Congress president Varsha Gaikwad has written to the Maharashtra government, saying uncertainty and insecurity prevailed among residents of Dharavi over their rehabilitation after the redevelopment of the slum colony.In the letter written to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on June 13, Gaikwad sought an urgent meeting with officials…
The state govt had declared the farm loan waiver – the Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Shetkari Karzamukti Yojana on June 2 Mumbai: Facing criticism that a large number of farmers will be excluded from its Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar farm loan waiver scheme, the state has set up three committees to oversee its implementation, including a cabinet…
Corporators questioned the practice of compensatory plantation being carried out outside Mumbai’s municipal limits, arguing that such measures dilute the objective of maintaining the city’s green cover Mumbai: At the BMC’s Tree Authority meeting on Friday, when multiple tree-cutting and transplantation proposals came up for approval, corporators across party lines questioned the practice of compensatory…
Mumbai: The civic standing committee on Thursday approved the proposal for the disbursement of Rs 1,000 crore to the BEST undertaking, which was held back at its earlier meeting on June 12.Committee members had demanded that BEST depute a representative to provide information on its financial condition. Accordingly, a representative was deputed by BEST, following…
The constable took both of them to Cuffe Parade police station. MUMBAI: Police questioned a 14-year-old boy following an alleged argument outside a Cuffe Parade building after he was purportedly refused drinking water by its security guard early on Thursday.A police constable on patrol duty was told by a guard, Suraj Chaudhary (21), that a…
The deceased, identified as Ravi More, was installing the banner near Veer Bhavan Building in Ulhasnagar No. 2 when he allegedly came into contact with a live overhead electric wire. Ulhasnagar: A 28-year-old man from Kalyan died after being electrocuted while putting up a birthday banner for former deputy mayor Bhagwan Bhalerao in Ulhasnagar on…
Image credits: Sanjay Hadkar MUMBAI: Thousands of office-goers and students were left stranded across Mumbai on Friday morning after an indefinite strike by BEST employees brought the city’s bus services to a near standstill.Long queues were seen at bus stops, including Bhandup, as commuters waited for buses that never arrived before scrambling for suburban trains,…
