Mumbai: BMC’s push to tighten control over disposal of construction and demolition (C&D) waste appears to be yielding results. Of the 32,043 tonnes of such debris collected in April—when the civic body notified a new standard operating procedure (SOP) mandating disposal through its autoDCR-linked monitoring system—14,125 tonnes reached the city’s two authorised recycling plants.This amounts…
Mumbai: Union minister for parliamentary affairs and minority affairs Kiren Rijiju said at a function in Mumbai on Saturday that Parsis are the only minority community that never sought financial aid from the govt. While the minister’s comment was well received by a largely Parsi audience, community members said the ground reality is different.The public…
Mumbai: For the second consecutive day, Mumbai’s daytime temperatures hovered near the 40°C mark, with Ram Mandir recording a scorching 39.2°C. Neighbouring Thane followed at around 38°C, while Bandra recorded 36°C, Vidyavihar 35.6°C, Santacruz 35.4°C, Dahisar 35.3°C and Colaba 34.6°C. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Mumbai operates two primary observatories at Colaba and Santacruz, while…
Mumbai: Maharashtra transport minister Pratap Sarnaik has drawn a firm line for autorickshaw drivers across the state: learn practical Marathi by August 15 or risk losing licence and badge. The warning was delivered at a gathering of drivers in Mumbai late Saturday evening.Sarnaik said every driver operating a commercial passenger vehicle in Maharashtra must have…
Mumbai: Carnatic vocalist and author T M Krishna has called upon Indians to shed the fear of the other. Delivering the keynote address at the ‘Conclave of Religions’ in the city on Saturday, Krishna called diversity and co-existence the core of India. Touching upon several themes like Ashoka’s dhamma, Rabindranath Tagore’s depiction of Bharat Mata,…
Mumbai: A sessions court on Friday granted bail to Malad-resident Abdul Khullay, an air conditioning dealer arrested in digital arrest scam involving siphoning of over Rs 58 crore through “digital arrest” from a retired pharma executive. Khullay spent seven months in jail. The order noted that Khullay had proactively cooperated with authorities by requesting his…
Mumbai: A month after police registered a case where a city widow was placed under “digital arrest” and duped of Rs 60 lakh in cash from outside her residence, the crime branch police have arrested four Jalgaon residents. Two of the arrested accused worked in Cambodia at an Indian restaurant run by the main accused,…
Mumbai: While the BMC on Friday evening claimed that it successfully completed repairs to a 1,650-mm main water pipeline on Dr E Moses Road in Mahalaxmi, which was damaged on Wednesday evening, there was no relief for residents in areas such as Mumbai Central, Nagpada and Kamathipura even on Saturday morning. Residents complained that they…
Mumbai: The income tax department alongwith Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) on Friday held an outreach initiative aimed at creating awareness and enhancing stakeholder understanding of the provisions of the new Income-tax Act, 2025 and the Income-tax Rules, 2026. Nirupama Kotru, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (International Taxation…
1.30 pm on May 2, 2003. The moment is seared into Alagu Sundaram’s memory. He was 22, back in Dharavi after a summer trip to Tirunelveli, when word reached him that the man whose face adorned the walls of his kholi was in Mumbai for a couple of days. If he hurried, he might still…
