Mumbai: Housing societies across Mumbai have been urged by the BMC to take responsibility for watering trees within private premises as soaring temperatures continue to impact the city’s green cover. Simultaneously, the civic body’s Solid Waste Management department has begun watering roadside trees through tankers during road-cleaning drives in several parts of the city. Civic…
Mumbai: The BMC has warned of stringent action, including registration of criminal cases, against individuals found illegally attaching electric motor pumps to water mains or direct tap connections to draw excess water during the ongoing 10% water cut across the city. The water cut has come into effect from Friday, as part of a move…
HC said the daughters’ careers should not be hampered because of their father’s absence Mumbai: Bombay high court has released a road rage assault accused on bail for 11 days so that he can guide his daughters on taking a decision regarding their academic careers.“The twin daughters, who are at a crucial juncture of their…
Two people were killed in the accident Palghar: Two persons were killed and one sustained serious injuries after a van transporting 20 silver plates worth crores crashed into the divider and collided with an incoming trailer near Charoti bridge in Kasa on Mumbai-Ahmedabad National Highway on Friday morning.According to Kasa police, the accident occurred around…
Under the new arrangement, CR will handle pre-monsoon works and routine station maintenance and will issue a written commitment next week Thane: Central Railway (CR) will take over operations and maintenance of all Cidco-managed railway stations on Harbour and Trans-Harbour lines in Navi Mumbai within the next six months, Shiv Sena MP Naresh Mhaske announced…
Mumbai: Nearly five days after a tree crash in Khar left a young woman and a teenaged girl critically injured, doctors at PD Hinduja Hospital & Medical Research Centre on Thursday said the condition of 15-year-old Aarika Srivasta remained extremely critical with absent higher brain and brain-stem functions.In a medical update issued by the hospital,…
BMC is set to auction a 5,166 sq m plot in Worli that houses its Municipal Testing Laboratory Chaitanya.MarpakwarMumbai: The BMC has received only two bids for the auction of its Municipal Testing Laboratory (MTL) plot in Worli. The BMC had last month floated a tender to auction the prime Worli plot for ‘commercial exploitation’….
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only MUMBAI: A 23-year-old man was arrested by the Aarey Colony Police from Bihar for kidnapping a minor girl from the western suburbs and sexually assaulting her.The investigation was complex as the girl had performed a factory reset on her mother’s phone, erasing all traces of her conversation with the…
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has reduced Value Added Tax (VAT) on Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) to 7 per cent from 18 per cent for a period of six months with effect from May 15, in a move aimed at providing relief to airlines grappling with high fuel costs. The civil aviation ministry said the move…
Mumbai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) held two passengers at the Mumbai international airport and recovered from them diamonds worth Rs 5.7 crore that they concealed inside their bodies, an official said on Thursday.The duo was trying to smuggle the diamonds to Bangkok, he said.The DRI official said after being caught at the Chhatrapati…
