Mumbai: In a major boost to public transport in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), the state govt has granted revised approval for Metro Line 5, its extension and the newly proposed Line 5A, taking the total project cost to Rs 18,131 crore. The integrated corridor, to be executed by the MMRDA, is set to improve…
Mumbai: An anxious mother’s outburst over Tuesday’s roadblock caused by BJP rallyists in Worli struck a chord with thousands of ordinary motorists and pedestrians. On Wednesday, minister Girish Mahajan’s statement saying a certain inconvenience was bound to occur during political rallies further added fuel to fire. Viren Shah, founder member and convenor of the Worli…
Pune: Census activities will not require any fees, bank details, OTPs, Aadhaar or PAN copies. These and more such directives are being issued by state census officials, who have also directed district authorities, including collectors and municipal commissioners, to crack down on fake enumerators and ensure complaints are promptly registered with the police.Ten days before…
Mumbai: A tiger cub at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) succumbed to Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) on April 16, said a press release. It was one of five cubs born to tigress Srivalli in October last year. Officials said FIP is a rare viral disease for which there is no treatment. The other four…
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate‘s (ED) money laundering case in the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank scam against several politicians, including former ministers, effectively came to an end after a special court discharged all the accused in the case on Wednesday.Among those discharged from the money laundering case are former ministers Ranjeet Deshmukh, Arjun Khotkar, Rohit Pawar,…
Thane: The ambitious Thane Integral Ring Metro project has been brought under the direct watch of the Prime Minister’s Office, placing it among a select group of nationally monitored infrastructure initiatives, officials associated with the project informed.The project was recently inducted into the Centre’s Pragati (Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation) platform, triggering a high-level review…
Mumbai: Acknowledging the complaint of a Mumbai-based environmentalist that over 116 acres of embargoed govt industrial land is in grave danger of being fully encroached upon in Charkop, Kandivli West, the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) has written to the state revenue department as well as the BMC to ensure that no encroachment takes…
Mumbai: The BMC has launched a centralised system to streamline resolution of all types of citizen complaints. The new platform, called the Management and Redressal of Grievances (MARG) system, was inaugurated by the city’s mayor Ritu Tawde with the aim of boosting citizen participation and ensuring faster, more effective delivery of civic services.The MARG system…
Mumbai: More than eight months after the Mumbai Coastal Road (South) project was opened round-the-clock to motorists, landscaping of the open spaces along the stretch is yet to begin. Civic officials said the BMC has been asked by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)—which has been assigned the landscaping work—to first carry out soil filling up to…
Mumbai: A day after two contractors were appointed for desilting Mithi River in three phases, BMC’s standing committee on Wednesday approved the contract of around Rs 30 crore.Following concerns raised by the opposition members over the ongoing works across the city, standing committee chairperson Prabhakar Shinde directed the BMC administration to provide weekly reports on…
