Mumbai: Faced with the proliferation of unauthorised bike-taxis in the state, the govt has decided to introduce rules to regulate this form of transport which require drivers of bike taxis and aggregator cabs to get a state-issued badge from Aug 1. For this, a domicile certificate and knowledge of Marathi will be mandatory. The proposal…
Mumbai: The ongoing wet spell has led to the single-biggest jump in water stocks this monsoon in the seven lakes that supply drinking water to Mumbai.As of 6 am on Tuesday, July 7, the total water stocks stood at 4.2 lakh million litres, or 28.9% of the lakes’ total live storage capacity. Just 24 hours…
Mumbai customs officials arrested Sreekant Sreedhan, a marketing manager, and a customs broker. MUMBAI: The customs department arrested Sreekant Sreedhan, marketing manager of Supriya Lifescience ltd, and a customs broker for allegedly attempting to export 200 kg of Ketamine Hydrochloride, a psychotropic substance illegally to South Korea.Export of the substance requires a prior No Objection…
RTI activist Jeetendra Ghadge criticized the decision, alleging it shields information on prosecution approvals (Photo credit: X) MUMBAI: A recent order of the Maharashtra State Information Commission (SIC) upholding the Anti-Corruption Bureau’s (ACB) response to an RTI application seeking details of prosecution sanctions in corruption cases has triggered fresh debate over transparency in anti-corruption investigations.Mumbai-based…
Mumbai: An 18-year-old delivery boy was killed after a water tanker struck him while he was making a late-night delivery in Jogeshwari (W) early Saturday.The deceased, Harsh Barnwal, was a native of Jharkhand and lived with his elder brother at Virar. Barnwal’s father had passed away, and he is survived by his mother.The fatal crash…
Palghar: CM Devendra Fadnavis said nearly 500 Palghar residents were being shifted to safer locations even as Kelwa and Pelhar dams in the district reached their full storage capacities on Monday. Officials had to release excess water and begin evacuation of residents of downstream villages. Alerts were issued to eight villages near Kelwa dam. Four…
Heavy rains triggered a landslide near Tunnel 2 on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway Missing Link MUMBAI/PUNE: The newly opened Mumbai–Pune Expressway ‘Missing Link’ project ran into serious trouble on Monday as heavy rains triggered a landslide near Tunnel 2, forcing a complete shutdown of the stretch and disrupting traffic between the two cities for over 18…
Every monsoon, Mumbai residents hear the same warning from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC): High tide expected. Heavy rain possible. When the two forecasts coincide, officials gear up for flooding, gridlock, and disruption to suburban train services.But what makes this particular combination so troublesome?The answer is a simple but…
Bhiwandi: A Bhiwandi court on Monday remanded four accused in the TET paper leak case to judicial custody after the expiry of their police remand, as the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Thane police continues to probe the interstate examination racket.The four accused include Suman Gupta, wife of the alleged mastermind Bijendra Gupta, who…
From 7-8am, high wind speeds were recorded across Mumbai areas, including 66kmph in Malabar Hill; hoarding collapses were also reported. MUMBAI: In just the first six days of July, Mumbai has received more than its average rainfall for the month, with the IMD’s Colaba and Santacruz observatories recording 823.4 mm and 898.4 mm respectively. The…
