– Special camp organised in East of Kailash on April 11 for verification and mapping of voters as part of SIR preparatory work. TOI photo Priyanka KakodkarMumbai: BMC commissionerAshwini Bhide has written to the Election Commission of India asking it not tobegin the special intensive revision (SIR) of the voter list in Maharashtraduring the summer…
Representation pic of a bike taxi Mumbai: Transport minister Pratap Sarnaik on Tuesday demanded that the cyber police discontinue all app services for unauthorised bike taxi operations across Maharashtra and file FIRs against respective company owners. This was part of the strict stance taken by his ministry against unauthorised bike taxi services in the state.In…
Mumbai: Nearly a fortnight after BMC suspended a third medical officer of health (MOH) over alleged irregularities in birth certificates issued during his tenure, he asked the civic administration on Tuesday to revoke his suspension, claiming that the allegations against him are false and that action was taken before completion of the inquiry.This is the…
Mumbai: By Tuesday afternoon, all that remained of 75-year-old Rupa Baai’s home in Darukhana was a heap of twisted tin sheets, broken utensils and a cot pushed to the roadside under the harsh summer sun. The frail woman, unwell and barely able to stand for long, sat silently as six bulldozers moved through the narrow…
MUMBAI: Traffic Police have announced vehicular restrictions in Sakinaka to address traffic congestion in the area. “Local residents, shopkeepers and office employees park vehicles on both sides of Technology Street (from Olympia Building to Gopal Chandrabhan Circle), making it difficult for fire brigade vehicles, ambulances, emergency vehicles and essential services to move. This leads to…
Worli in Mumbai braces for parking restrictions to ease heavy traffic load (File Photo) MUMBAI: To decongest streets of Worli, traffic police have issued certain parking restrictions.“GM Bhosle Road is an important road connecting PK Kurne Chowk to Acharya Atre Chowk (Worli Naka). This road is two-way and there is a large amount of vehicular…
Mulund’s Jungle Mangal Road faces new parking rules from May 12 to August 11 to ease traffic (File Photo) MUMBAI: Traffic Police have issued parking restrictions in Bhandup-Mulund belt to reduce congestion.“Jungle Mangal Road, from Khot Gully to Shivaji Lake, in the Bhandup-Mulund belt is an internal road. Local residents and office employees park their…
Mumbai: The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has approved the restart and continued operation of Unit-2 of the Tarapur Atomic Power Station for another 10 years after completion of a major refurbishment and safety upgrade programme undertaken by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited.The approval was granted on May 7 following a multi-tiered safety review…
Bombay high court said such action of alarming alacrity and efficiency shown by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is shocking in the present case Mumbai: The Bombay high court has rapped the BMC over the Feb 6 demolition of a structure near Mith Chowky metro station, Malad (West) barely 13 days after issuing it a demolition…
Bombay High Court is one of the oldest high courts of India Swati DeshpandeMumbai: The Bombay high court recently expressed its shock over the police lapse in failing to halt what appeared to be an illegal demolition in 2016 of a historic Buddha Bhushan printing press at Dadar set up by Dr B R Ambedkar.On…
