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Mumbai: Environmental NGO Awaaz Foundation has written to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis seeking personal intervention against the proposed Maharashtra Maritime Board (Regulation of Display of Advertisements) Regulations 2026, raising concerns over light pollution, biodiversity loss and visual defacement of Maharashtra’s coastline.In the letter to Fadnavis, dated May 9, Awaaz Foundation founder Sumaira Abdulali objected to…

Mumbai: Mumbai Police have terminated the service of constable Shyam Sonawane, who was deputed as the bodyguard of former NCP leader Baba Siddique on charges of dereliction of duty.Siddique (66) was shot dead by three men outside his MLA son Zeeshan’s office in Bandra on October 12, 2024 night. Sonawane, attached to the Protection and…

Thane: Mahatma Phule police in Kalyan have registered a cheating and forgery case against five persons, including two nephews of a BJP functionary from Ambernath, for allegedly preparing forged will and power of attorney documents using backdated stamp papers to usurp family property worth crores belonging to their sister.The accused have been identified as brothers…

Mumbai: Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday inaugurated Phase 1 of the Dahisar River Rejuvenation and Beautification Project and said the sewage treatment plant (STP) model developed along the river should emerge as a “role model” for the rest of the country.Speaking at the inauguration in Dahisar, Goyal said cleaning rivers cannot…

Navi Mumbai: A beat marshal constable of Kalamboli police station rescued a woman (35) from drowning in a pond on Sunday. The woman had jumped at around 12.30 pm leading to an SOS call to the police. Seeing her alive, constable Sagar Mali jumped into Ganesh immersion pond at Roadpali to save her. Source link

Thane: Fresh videos of a leopard roaming near residential pockets in Wagle Estate have triggered concern among residents days after a similar sighting in Shrinagar last week.Two videos from Hanuman Nagar, adjoining Sanjay Gandhi National Park, have gone viral on social media where the first shows the leopard drinking water from a plastic tub kept…

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…