Mumbai: Four pedestrian bridges over railway tracks in south and central Mumbai, flagged as unsafe by the railways, will undergo structural audits by IIT Bombay, with the BMC set to seek approval from the civic standing committee to pay the IIT-Bombay institute Rs 12 lakh in advance for the exercise.The proposal, which will be placed…
The move to change the ground’s reservation triggered an uproar Mumbai: Amid mounting opposition to BMC’s plan to change the reservation of Neville D’Souza Football Ground at Bandra Reclamation from a playground to an exhibition and convention centre, civic officials clarified that the proposal is is still far from being implemented and must clear multiple…
HSRP being fixed on a vehicle in Pune. Mumbai: Vehicle owners in Maharashtra must install high security registration plates (HSRP) by June 30, failing which strict action will be taken from July 1 under the Motor Vehicles Act, a senior transport department official said on Monday. Transport department has affixed over a crore HSRPs, but…
MLA Rais Shaikh emphasized that no fresh recruitment of technical staff has taken place since 2011, leaving the system overstretched and ill-equipped to manage growing demand Mumbai: South Mumbai is grappling with an alarming power crisis, with prolonged outages severely disrupting daily life. Highlighting the gravity of the situation, MLA Rais Shaikh raised the issue…
The report called a BMC worker’s fall into an open channel an accident Mumbai: Days after a BMC worker fell into an open stormwater channel during mayor Ritu Tawde’s inspection of a chronic flooding spot at King’s Circle, a civic inquiry termed it an accident and called for better crowd management during VIP visits.Eyewitnesses told…
Mumbai: When doctors at Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital in Parel drew blood from a two-and-a-half-month-old baby girl, they froze. Instead of the familiar crimson, the syringe filled with a thick, pinkish liquid.What began as an evaluation for an enlarged heart quickly turned into a race against time to save a child suffering from familial lipoprotein…
Some of the seized capsules Mumbai: The Pune man arrested for allegedly passing out pills filled with zinc phosphide at a Muharram procession last week had destroyed some of the poison he had ordered online, said police.The probe has shown that the suspect, Fayyaz Premji (39), had ordered 30,000 capsules and 50kg of zinc phosphide,…
Babu Samir Das and his wife Sapna stay on P D’Mello Road In Bandra East, Shabbir Khan (33) has stacked a month’s worth of dry firewood beneath the plastic-sheet shelter that eight members of his family call home. Once monsoon arrives, dry wood becomes nearly impossible to find.“We need it to cook whatever we have….
Two minors ran away from an ashram school in the western suburbs after being assaulted Mumbai: An FIR has been lodged against the manager of an ashram school in the western suburbs for allegedly physically assaulting two boys, aged 11 and 14, which forced them to flee in the dead of night earlier this month.A…
Mumbai: From next year, all exams conducted by the state govt will be held online, school education minister Dada Bhuse announced in the Maharashtra assembly on Monday. A committee has been formed under state chief secretary Rajesh Agarwal to create the necessary infrastructure to conduct online examinations. Bhuse added that all those found guilty in…
