MUMBAI: Citizens groups, environmental activists and local residents will come together on May 17, Sunday to form a human chain in Bandra West to protest what they claim is the destruction of over 45,000 mangroves for the Mumbai Coastal Road project.While approximately 60,000 mangroves fall in the influence zone of the Mumbai Coastal Road (North)…
MUMBAI: Aarika Sumit Srivastava, 14,, who was injured in the tree crash incident on May 10, was declared dead on Sunday morning, doctors at P D Hinduja Hospital said. The other injured girl, Harshita Kumar, who was travelling with her in the same autorickshaw, remains critical and is admitted to the ICU of the same…
MUMBAI: BMC commissioner Ashwini Bhide on Saturday directed civic officials to ensure that all municipal hospitals, clinics and healthcare facilities remain clean, encroachment-free and visually uniform, while also setting a May 31 deadline for completion of ongoing roadworks across the city.The BMC currently operates more than 500 healthcare facilities, including health centres, maternity homes, speciality…
Central Railway megablock today affects Mumbai local train services on Main and Harbour lines MUMBAI: Central Railway, Mumbai Division will operate megablock on its Main line between Thane and Kalyan to carry out various engineering and maintenance works today. On Main Line, the block is on Thane-Kalyan UP and Down fast lines from 10.40 am…
MUMBAI: The BMC on Saturday demolished illegal temporary structures and turf installations at the Priyadarshini Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in Mulund, less than 24 hours after a site inspection led by Mumbai mayor Ritu Tawde and former MP Kirit Somaiyya.The action was carried out by the civic body’s T ward office following complaints of irregularities…
MUMBAI: Bombay high court recently quashed an FIR against a man who was booked on his ex-girlfriend’s complaint that he had sexual intercourse with her by making a false promise to marry.Both told HC they had reconciled their differences and are happily married. “This is a case of love between the applicant and the respondent,…
MUMBAI: A day after two young girls were critically injured in a tree crash incident in Khar on May 10, a letter from the BMC’s H-West ward office to the Khar police has put an uncomfortable question back on the table—what is killing Mumbai’s trees? The letter, accessed by this newspaper, claims the fallen tree…
MUMBAI: A group of residents in Juhu has launched its own civic platform that functions as an “issue collector”, allowing citizens to flag and document local problems in real time.Residents who are part of the volunteer network can upload complaints ranging from garbage and sanitation issues to illegal pavement encroachments, political hoardings, water leakages, tree…
Vasai: A 20-year-old man died due to electrocution on Friday afternoon, after he along with three others, were moving a hotel’s name board. The other three were not affected, but the 20-year-old, Abhay Tiwari, was declared dead on arrival when he was taken to a Mira road hospital. Naigaon police reached the spot and registered…
The court refused to extend the benefit of probation Mumbai: A magistrate’s court granted bail to Rajivranjan Pandey, an accused in a Rs 122-crore fraud at New India Co-operative Bank, Prabhadevi. Arrested in March 2025, Pandey had spent over a year in custody following allegations that he used an alias to receive Rs 15 crore…
