MUMBAI: For the first time in recent memory, the popular 7.5-acre Bandra Talao, a Grade II heritage lake, has been dewatered as part of a major rejuvenation drive. The urban waterbody is now a vast stretch of exposed mudflats and heavy silt deposits, with excavation machinery and pumps working through the remaining patches of sludge….
The strike was called by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) Mumbai: About 20,000 medical shops in Mumbai and over a lakh across the state remained shut on Wednesday in protest against online medicine delivery platforms.The strike was called by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), which said that…
Clara LewisMumbai: Maharashtra’s forest department has vehemently opposed a proposal by a BJP worker, forwarded to it by the state govt’s revenue department, to set up a university and an integrated township inside Borivli’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), the world’s most unique urban forest. On another proposal by the BJP worker to change the…
By: Srimoyee Palit & Meghna RewachandMUMBAI: As bulldozers tore through the narrow lanes of Garib Nagar in Bandra East this week, hundreds of families watched decadesold homes crumble into heaps of concrete and twisted metal, their belongings piled onto tarpaulins under the harsh summer sun. As authorities cleared land for railway expansion and infrastructure integration,…
Mumbai: Responding to PM Narendra Modi’s appeal to conserve fuel, Fisheries and Ports minister Nitesh Rane on Tuesday held a meeting with Mumbai Bank Chairman, MLC Praveen Darekar, to convert diesel-powered boats that ply near the Gateway of India into electric boats in a phased manner and provide financial assistance and a special loan scheme…
Police officials carry out a lathi charge after residents of the ‘Garib Nagar’ slum in Bandra East allegedly pelt stones at police during the second day of an anti-encroachment drive on railway land, in Mumbai on Wednesday. (ANI Photo) MUMBAI: Seven policemen and six protesters were injured, while 10 people were detained after violence erupted…
Mumbai: In a rare move, Congress has backed BJP’s demand to scrap BMC’s public-private partnership (PPP) policy for giving out five civic schools to private players on lease.Congress MLA Amin Patel has written to BMC chief Ashwini Bhide demanding that the current PPP policy be scrapped. Last week, Mumbai BJP president and Andheri West MLA…
Kalyan: The Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) is probing into an alleged attempt to destroy trees along Kalyan’s Smart City road by unidentified miscreants using the ‘drill and poison’ method.The incident came to light after local environmentalist Dinesh Salve received information from a friend, Kunal Sonawane, that a few trees between D B Chowk and Ganesh…
Mumbai: CM Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday appealed to the people not to resort to panic buying of petrol/diesel as it disrupts the supply chain. “The centre has repeatedly said strategic stock is available and it is being supplied in proper amount. Panic disrupts the supply chain. There is no shortage. If people withdraw all money…
Mumbai: A 25-year-old woman was booked by Worli police after her high-end car rammed into a sedan on Worli Sea Link at around 11.45 pm on Monday, police said. No injuries were reported in the incident.Police booked Zenia D’sa, a resident of Powai, who was allegedly driving in a reckless and negligent manner on the…
