Mumbai: The CBI has registered a case against Machindra Bamne, an official of Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), and his wife in a case of amassing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income after examining their documents recovered in a three-year-old case.In 2023, the agency had registered a corruption case against Bamne, along with…
Mumbai: Along with a 100-acre plot in Andheri West around Gilbert Hill, Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) is set to launch 18 projects in Mumbai under the state govt’s recently introduced slum cluster redevelopment scheme.Clusters of at least 50 acres, where over 51% of the area is occupied by slums, will be taken up for the…
Mumbai: Residents of nearly 7 slum settlements in Sector 6, Dharavi, have been issued a notice to vacate before the monsoon or before the next academic year begins. Sector 6 is on Matunga railway land, where rehabilitation buildings under the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) are to be constructed.Officials from DRP, which is part of the…
Customs officials apprehended a businessman and a clearing agent in Mumbai for attempting to export a controlled chemical. (Representative image) MUMBAI: The Customs arrested a businessman and a clearing agent for allegedly trying to export a chemical without a prior no objection certificate (NOC) from the Narcotics Commissioner of the Central Bureau of Narcotics.The exporter…
A planned coastal road threatens the livelihood of 50 fishing families in Charkop koliwada, Mumbai. Every few days, 71-year-old Anil Bhandari rows his small boat out of the mangroves of Charkop and up Manori creek to fish—boi, catfish, and, if he’s lucky, a few baskets of prawns. The catch hasn’t been as good in recent…
Actor Boman Irani inaugurated the ‘To Be Continued…’ art exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, engaging deeply with artists and their work. He emphasized art’s transformative power and urged parents to expose children to galleries for broader inspiration. The exhibition features nearly 70 works by diverse artists and runs until April 20. Boman Irani brought a…
MUMBAI: For a city that lives by the sea, the warning could not be closer to home. A new global commission announced by The Lancet has flagged sea-level rise as not just an environmental concern but a growing public health and equity crisis—one that could reshape life across coastal cities like Mumbai and India’s vast…
MUMBAI: A shadow hangs over the Nani Nani Park in Versova, cast not by its leafy canopy but by an impending concrete one. Earlier this month, regulars found notices attached to a scattering of trunks, each bearing a string of alphanumeric codes. It was a roll call of trees marked for felling or transplanting, compiled…
MUMBAI: An MBA student, critical in an ICCU after a suspected overdose of the drug ecstasy (street name for MDMA) at a techno music concert Saturday night, told police she had the same drug at another event in the city last year. The 25-year-old and at least two other students had reportedly taken ecstasy pills…
MUMBAI: The deaths of two MBA students at a music concert in Mumbai have once again put the spotlight on ecstasy (MDMA) — a party drug often associated with nightlife but capable of turning fatal within hours.Known on the street as “Molly” or “E”, ecstasy is a synthetic psychoactive substance that stimulates the brain while…
