People carrying umbrellas make their way through a waterlogged street amid rainfall at Parel on Thursday Mumbai: July began on a wet note with the city recording over 300mm of rainfall in the first two days, which is nearly 37% of the month’s average rainfall quota of 855.7mm.IMD’s Santacruz observatory, which is representative of Mumbai,…
Fire brigade personnel and emergency responders conduct a rescue operation after a tree fell on a school van in Chembur on June 30. The incident claimed the life of an 11-year-old student and left several others injured Mumbai: Even as the Municipal Engineers Association and Brihanmumbai Municipal Engineers Union have sought the revocation of the…
Minister for Marathi language Uday Samant Thane: Industries minister Uday Samant on Thursday said the govt will hold stakeholder meetings to clarify public concerns over the proposed 29-km Thane Integral Ring Metro Rail project after legislators questioned its viability and impact in the Legislative Council.Samant said the Thane District Collector would convene the meetings within…
Thane/Kalyan: A 17-year-old Mumbra girl and a 42-year-old Dombivli woman were electrocuted in separate incidents in Thane district on Wednesday after coming into contact with live electric current in waterlogged areas near their respective residences.The Mumbra incident took place around 8.30pm, when Aliya Chandiwala stepped out of Yasmin Apartment on Maulana Hasrat Mohani Road in…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Thursday quashed an externment order against the office-bearer of a party who organised public protests on issues such as the Citizenship Act amendments and said mere opposition to a govt decision cannot be grounds to force a person out of his surroundings.Justice Madhav Jamdar quizzed the prosecution as to why…
Vasai-Virar: State approved enhanced compensation of approximately Rs 25.4 lakh per hectare for those affected by the Deharji Medium Irrigation Project in Vikramgad Taluka in Palghar.The Deharji Medium Project will create a water storage capacity of 95.60 million cubic meters (255 MLD). According to the collector, about 85% of the dam’s construction is complete. The…
Mumbai: BMC’s executive health officer Daksha Shah has directed the Medical Officers of Health (MOH) of all wards to cancel birth correction entries that were carried out without receipt of the prescribed applications and/or without adequate supporting documents.The order stated that such correction entries are required to be cancelled in accordance with the provisions of…
Lokmanya Tilak Terminus GRP have started a manhunt for the man Mumbai: A week after a passenger was stabbed to death in a suburban train between Goregaon and Malad stations, CCTV camera on a Central Railway (CR) local has captured a shabbily dressed man threatening a co-passenger following an altercation at Govandi.Lokmanya Tilak Terminus GRP…
Mumbai: Social justice minister Sanjay Shirsat on Thursday told the Legislative Assembly that work on the statue to be erected at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar at Indu Mills was stuck due to the increased rate of bronze.Shirsat admitted when work on the statue was commissioned in 2018, the price of bronze was Rs 8 per inch,…
Deputy mayor Sanjay Ghadi arrives at the scene of the accident where a man died after falling into a manhole (Photo credit: X/@Sanjay Ghadi) MUMBAI: Deputy mayor Sanjay Ghadi of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena on Thursday demanded the resignation of municipal commissioner Ashwini Bhide, holding the civic administration accountable for the death of a…
