Mumbai: The BMC will soon refloat a tender for the commissioning and maintenance of a smart parking system at on-street and off-street parking locations across the city under the public-private partnership (PPP) model, after cancelling the earlier tender due to an inadequate response despite several extensions.“Under the earlier tender, operators were required to pay property…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has directed that the proposed 400/220 kV GIS sub-station at Ambernath be taken up on priority, paving the way for a critical transmission project intended to bolster power supply for Maharashtra’s rapidly expanding data centre ecosystem. MERC also highlighted the project’s broader importance in addressing the sharp rise…
Chaitanya.MarpakwarMumbai: A day after BJP nominated businessman Arun Lakhani, the to-be father-in-law of NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule’s daughter Revati, as its candidate for the upcoming legislative council polls from the Chandrapur-Wardha-Gadchiroli local bodies’ constituency, the opposition Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) took a dig at both Sule and the BJP. While UBT Sena’s Sanjay…
Jayesh Mali (L), along with bystanders, saved a 46-year-old woman MUMBAI: Mumbai cop, in a swift rescue operation, saved a 46-year-old woman after she jumped into the sea at the Marine Drive promenade. The incident occurred around 11.25am on Monday.Reportedly, as soon as the woman jumped into the sea, police constable Jayesh Mali, who was…
Navi Mumbai: Raigad district collector recently struck down the order passed by a former Panvel sub divisional officer (SDO) allowing diversion of about 30 acres (12 hectares) of private forest land in Morbe village, Panvel, for non-forest purposes.The collector’s reversal order was passed in March 2026, after deputy conservator of forest-Alibaug division, Rahul Patil, filed…
Navi Mumbai: A truck driver and his assistant were killed, while two others, including an elderly woman in a multi-utility vehicle (MUV) and the driver of a container trailer, were severely injured in a collision on the Mumbai carriageway of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway near the Khopoli exit around 4.10 am on Monday.The fatal accident occurred…
BEST officials attributed the interruptions to a “cable fault” Mumbai: Power outages continued across parts of Girgaum late Sunday night and early Monday, leaving residents exhausted after another night of disrupted sleep and prompting many to plan a protest over what they describe as recurring, late-night power cuts. Several pockets reported interruptions from around midnight…
MMRDA embarks on the construction of seven state-of-the-art foot over bridges along the Dahisar East to Mira-Bhayandar Metro Line 9 corridor. (Representative image) MUMBAI: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) will construct seven foot over bridges (FOBs) along the 11-km Metro Line 9 corridor between Dahisar East and Mira-Bhayandar to improve pedestrian safety and…
MUMBAI: Juhu Police have registered an FIR against three people for making derogatory and abusive comments online on social media posts of BJP MLA Ameet Satam.The FIR was lodged on the basis of a complaint given by corporator Anish Makwani.According to the complaint, Satam had posted videos on Instagram about work done in the city.Two…
JEE Advanced 2026 results are out, with 56,880 candidates qualifying for IIT admissions (Representative image) MUMBAI: Of the 1,87,389 candidates who registered for JEE (Advanced) 2026, as many as 1,79,694 appeared for both papers held on May 17. The results, declared on Monday, saw 56,880 candidates qualify for admission to the country’s premier engineering institutions.Among…
