Fadnavis, Jayant Patil meeting triggers fresh buzz MUMBAI: A late-night meeting between Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and senior leaders from both factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Wednesday set off another round of political speculation over the future course of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP), with opposition ally Shiv Sena (UBT) demanding…
Indian cities face recurring costs from pothole repairs on asphalt roads. Year after year Indian cities spend hundreds of crores on filling up potholes that reappear with the next bout of heavy rain. Roads are tarred before the monsoon, only to crack, cave in and develop potholes in weeks. Emergency tenders are floated, traffic crawls,…
Poet-activist Tenzin Tsundue waves the Tibetan flag at Versova beach MUMBAI: When Tenzin Tsundue was imprisoned in Lhasa for three months before Chinese authorities deported him to India, he had an unlikely visitor. Every day, a mouse would scurry into his cell, and Tsundue would share a few grains of rice with the tiny creature,…
Car fire occurred inside the Mumbai Coastal Road tunnel, causing traffic delays. MUMBAI: Panic gripped motorists on Wednesday afternoon after a car caught fire inside the northbound tunnel of the Mumbai Coastal Road, forcing authorities to temporarily shut the tunnel and triggering a major traffic jam along the Breach Candy stretch.The blaze, reported around 12.25…
In Chhoti Si Baat (1976), Basu Chatterjee’s classic ode to Bombay office romance, Amol Palekar’s character, Arun, practices a ritual that feels like a myth in modern Mumbai: he waits in an orderly queue at a bus stop.Today, those polite queues have dissolved into chaotic scrums, commuter etiquette is an endangered species, and the iconic…
Mumbai police arrested a Punjab resident for impersonating a Maharashtra MLA’s personal assistant (Photo credit: X) MUMBAI: Mumbai Police have arrested a Punjab resident for allegedly impersonating the personal assistant (PA) of a Maharashtra MLA and duping people by seeking money under the guise of financial assistance.The accused, identified as 44-year-old Bhalindra Pal Baldev Singh…
Victims of cyber fraud have been urged to immediately contact the national cybercrime helpline ‘1930’ and report the matter to the nearest police station. Mumbai: The city police have busted three fake call centres operating from Kurla and Ghatkopar and arrested 12 people for allegedly cheating insurance policyholders by posing as representatives of a private…
Mumbai: A day after the BMC’s inquiry report into the Chembur tree crash absolved its garden and roads department officials of any wrongdoing, the family of 11-year-old Vihaan Srivastava, who was killed in the June 30 incident, said the report had dealt them a “grave injustice” and added they may explore legal action against those…
Mumbai: Mumbai mayor Ritu Tawade on Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction with the BMC’s inquiry report into the Chembur tree crash that claimed the life of 11-year-old Vihaan Srivastava, saying the findings did not go far enough in fixing accountability. BJP MLC Chitra Wagh also strongly criticised the report, calling it “tragic, infuriating and completely unacceptable.” State…
The minister said low-speed e-rickshaws should operate mainly on internal roads, feeder routes and connectivity corridors rather than arterial roads, highways and major traffic junctions Mumbai: In a push to strengthen women’s entrepreneurship and promote green mobility, state transport minister Pratap Sarnaik has directed officials to identify dedicated routes across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR)…
