Pic of the rescued youths who hail from UP Navi Mumbai: Nine men from Uttar Pradesh, aged between 18 and 24 years, were rescued from illegal bonded labour at a laterite stone quarry site in Charai Budruk village of Tala taluka in Raigad district, where they were reportedly held in exploitative working conditions for nearly…
Officials said the forms will be distributed immediately after Diwali Mumbai: Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) authorities will issue consent forms to eligible non-tribal encroachers for relocation and rehabilitation at Shirdon and Kon in Kalyan since the sites are over 50km from their current residences. Many slumdwellers have opposed the plan to shift them that…
File pic for representation Mumbai: Diwali celebrations appear to be undergoing a gradual, albeit slow, transformation in the city with growing public awareness, wider acceptance of green crackers and a significant reduction in firecracker noise levels compared to two decades ago. Yet environmental activists caution that noise pollution remains well above legally permissible limits in…
Mumbai: BMC’s public health department has written to hospitals asking them to refer patients to public-private partnership (PPP) dialysis centres as and when needed. The rates for the 10 facilities range between Rs 250 and Rs 540 on the higher end, lower than many of the private facilities. Many of them have started in recent…
A fire broke out at Runwal Elegante in Lokhandwala, Andheri West, on Saturday night Mumbai: A 46-year-old lift operator, Dhanpat Mahatu, died of suffocation caused by smoke inhalation after a fire erupted in a 17th-floor flat of Runwal Elegante, a highrise residential complex in Andheri Lokhandwala, on Saturday around 9.45pm.The fire, which was confined to…
Balcony of a 1940s – era middle-class home in Shivaji park For most of his life, 36-year-old Mohsin Mulla has enjoyed hanging out in the verandah of his small flat on the top floor of an old Mazgaon building. He could step out with a cup of tea, gaze up at the sky or down…
Mumbai: First, the good news: the city registered an overall 29.8% improvement in air quality on Sunday afternoon as compared to Diwali and Lakshmi Puja last year. At 4pm, it logged an air quality index of 132—keeping it in the moderately polluted band—down from 188 during the same period last year.But that was it to…
The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai Customs has arrested a mother and son with gold dust worth Rs 2.08 crore concealed in undergarments at Mumbai airport. Mumbai: The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai Customs has arrested a mother and son with gold dust worth Rs 2.08 crore concealed in undergarments at Mumbai airport.According…
Mumbai: In a bid to improve last-mile connectivity in Borivli East, the BEST undertaking has introduced a new air-conditioned circular bus route, A-636, which will begin operations on Monday. The route will connect Borivli Railway Station (East) with key residential areas including Gautam Nagar, Anita Nagar and Alica Nagar.The circular service will pass through important…
The report said nearly 1 in 3 electors in MMR has been struck off the rolls Mumbai: The special intensive revision (SIR) of poll rolls has led to the deletion of nearly one in three electors in MMR, according to a preliminary independent study by Sabar Institute, a public policy research organisation.Thane recorded 28.6 lakh…
