15,000 trees are reportedly already on site Mumbai: Over 75,000 trees have been planned for Coastal Road’s 130-acre gardens, which will create a vast new green lung for Mumbai, said Reliance Foundation chairperson Nita Ambani on Friday. She said work on the project has commenced, with a team of landscape architects, ecologists and engineers working…
15,000 trees are reportedly already on site Mumbai: Over 75,000 trees have been planned for Coastal Road’s 130-acre gardens, which will create a vast new green lung for Mumbai, said Reliance Foundation chairperson Nita Ambani on Friday. She said work on the project has commenced, with a team of landscape architects, ecologists and engineers working…
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde Mumbai: Though the six rebel Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs who are expected to switch over to the Shiv Sena stayed away from the event marking the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the party at the Nesco ground in Goregaon on Friday, deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde could not stay…
Mumbai: The bus strike in Mumbai is likely to continue for yet another day as the unions’ talks with govt and senior BEST officials ended in a deadlock on Friday evening.The city’s public transport system was thrown into disarray on Friday morning after an indefinite strike by BEST employees brought bus services to a near-complete…
Mumbai: Non-Marathi auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers in Maharashtra who fail to obtain a Marathi language proficiency certificate by Aug 15 will face action, the state transport department said on Friday.The department has made it mandatory for all non-Marathi auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers to complete a four-hour ‘Marathi Bhasha Samvad Pathyakram’ (Marathi communication course) between June…
The deceased, identified as Ravi More, was installing the banner near Veer Bhavan Building in Ulhasnagar No. 2 when he allegedly came into contact with a live overhead electric wire. Ulhasnagar: A 28-year-old man from Kalyan died after being electrocuted while putting up a birthday banner for former deputy mayor Bhagwan Bhalerao in Ulhasnagar on…
A two-decade-old murder case involving the father of a Shiv Sena (UBT) MP has become a flashpoint in the party’s internal conflict. (Omprakash Nimbalkar (L) , Padamsinh Patil (R)) MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Omraje Nimbalkar has so far neither confirmed nor denied reports that he is part of the rebel group moving towards the…
MUMBAI: The city’s east region cyber police have arrested a Virar-based tour operator whose bank account was allegedly used to route money from cyber fraudsters reported across several states. Investigators suspect crores of rupees siphoned from victims were moved through the account before being transferred to other beneficiaries, with part of the trail possibly leading…
Only 3 UBT MPs attend Delhi meet as Sena split deepens MUMBAI: The parliamentary party meeting called by Shiv Sena (UBT) in New Delhi on Thursday was attended only by 3 of its 9 Lok Sabha MPs — Arvind Sawant, Anil Desai and Rajabhau Waze, indicating that ‘Operation Tiger,’ the name given to the Eknath…
Image credits: Sanjay Hadkar MUMBAI: Thousands of office-goers and students were left stranded across Mumbai on Friday morning after an indefinite strike by BEST employees brought the city’s bus services to a near standstill.Long queues were seen at bus stops, including Bhandup, as commuters waited for buses that never arrived before scrambling for suburban trains,…
