Navi Mumbai: The Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) approved a Rs 1,000 crore proposal to raise the height of Dehrang Dam by 20 metres, which will increase its storage capacity to 38 million cubic metres.Dehrang Dam, located at the foothills of Matheran, supplies water to the Panvel township.Currently, Panvel receives about 230 MLD of water,…
Photos of late Ajit Pawar and NCP chief Sunetra Pawar were found missing from a poster of party’s event in Raigad attended by state NCP chief Sunil Tatkare recently Mumbai: The NCP, which is a constituent of the Mahayuti government, has distanced itself from the remarks of its MLA Sana Malik on the issue of…
Mumbai Fire Brigade has made history by appointing Pallavi Patil, 29, as its first female driver-cum-operator. MUMBAI: When you see a fire engine racing through Mumbai’s crowded streets with its sirens blaring next time, it could have a trailblazer at the wheel. On June 18, Mumbai Fire Brigade appointed Pallavi Patil, 29, as its first-ever…
Train murder victim Mayank Lohar’s funeral was carried out on Friday Mumbai: Friends, relatives and neighbours gathered in large numbers at Virar on Friday to bid farewell to Mayank Lohar, the 21-year-old who was brutally murdered in a local train compartment by a co-traveller following an altercation on Tuesday night. Lohar’s parents and siblings were…
21-year-old Mayank Lohar was killed by a co-traveller on a local train over a trivial dispute on keeping the compartment door shut. His family has demanded the strictest punishment possible for the perpetrator Mumbai: “I had never seen such a ghastly crime and so much blood before… It haunts me.” TOI spoke to an eyewitness…
Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation disconnected the water supply and sewage connection of Amoli Co-Operative Housing Society in Sector 30, Sanpada, Navi Mumbai, after the building was declared a dangerous structure under the C-1 category. The building was declared dangerous in 2019-20 by the Municipal Corporation committee under category C-1 (highly dangerous, uninhabitable,…
Navi Mumbai: A 45-year-old butcher was booked by Ulwe police for slaughtering rams and goats and hanging their meat for sale at his illegally set-up tin shade on the pavement near a school in Sector 20, Ulwe, within the restricted 10 km radius and about 2 km from the aerodrome reference point of the Navi…
Navi Mumbai: Considering the frequent traffic congestion along the Belapur-Uran-Panvel stretch of road resulting in blocking the lane leading to the Atal Setu, the Navi Mumbai traffic department has issued a notification for diversion of heavy vehicles.Deputy commissioner of police (traffic) Rahul Khade said that the traffic diversion for heavy vehicles travelling from the Belapur…
At the Mahanagar Blood Bank, inspectors found deficiencies in the storage and handling of blood and blood components Mumbai: The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday issued an immediate “stop work” order for the state’s largest blood bank — JJ Mahanagar Blood Bank, located within the JJ Hospital complex in Byculla — for…
Since the law came into force, authorities have registered 627 criminal cases, said the senior official. Of these, only 127 have ended in convictions Mumbai: Maharashtra has stepped up its drive against sex-selective abortions by inspecting nearly every sonography centre in the state and conducting sting operations, but convictions under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic…
