MUMBAI: Mumbai’s roads get flooded, train services get disrupted, traffic snarls and daily life come to a standstill every monsoon season. Heavy rain is the immediate trigger, but experts say it’s a combination of natural and man-made causes behind the city’s annual flooding.Because of the increased frequency of extreme rainfall events, which often take place…
Navi Mumbai: Two days after he went missing at Pandavkada waterfall in Kharghar while on a picnic, the body of a Santacruz collegian was retrieved from a downstream channel around 2km away on Monday.“The body was retrieved in the morning and was handed over to local police,” a Kharghar fire brigade personnel said.Kharghar police took…
MUMBAI: Mumbai came to a standstill on Monday as heavy rain and gusty winds lashed it for the third day running and torrential showers disrupted life in other parts of the state, Palghar district being the worst-hit. While IMD downgraded the alert for Mumbai for Tuesday from red to orange, the BMC has again declared…
Mohammed Abuzar, the 13-year-old boy Bhiwandi/Navi Mumbai: A 13-year-old boy, Mohammed Abuzar, was swept away in a stormwater drain while playing with friends in Bhiwandi on Monday. This was the third such tragedy involving minors in Bhiwandi in the last three days. The other victims are still missing.According to the civic body, Abuzar lost his…
Municipal Engineers Union workers protest outside BMC’s M-West ward office on Monday Mumbai: The Municipal Engineers Union on Monday staged a protest outside BMC’s M-West ward office against the suspension of civic engineers in connection with two recent monsoon-related incidents, demanding that the disciplinary action be revoked.Calling the action “premature and unjust”, the union said…
Mumbai: Mankhurd police on Monday arrested the contractor and owner of the unauthorised ground-plus-three-storey slum tenement that collapsed onto an adjoining ground-floor shanty at Janata Nagar in Mandala area on Sunday night, killing five children and a woman and injuring a man.Based on a complaint lodged by Mohammad Mukhtar Abdul Ali Shaikh (53), police registered…
Navi Mumbai: A group of 125 trekkers from different parts of Pune was stuck in Roha, Raigad, since Saturday evening. Also, more than 1,000, including tourists, landed up at Kolad in the same taluka due to the Mumbai-Goa highway flooding. Further, three teams in a joint operation on Sunday night rescued 36 inmates of a…
Bombay high court accepted BMC’s affidavit filed on Monday that said the civic chief has directed all 26 wards to ensure 100% inspection of manhole covers across Mumbai in 10 days, and officers were acting on it. Mumbai: Coming down on the BMC for an “eyewash” of earlier compliance affidavits, Bombay high court on Monday…
According to police, the gang had trafficked around 20 women for prostitution and used them to solicit customers in and around the Kalyan Kalyan: In a first-of-its-kind action in Thane district, Thane police have invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against a six-member women-led gang allegedly involved in running an organised…
According to police, the gang had trafficked around 20 women for prostitution and used them to solicit customers in and around the Kalyan Kalyan: In a first-of-its-kind action in Thane district, Thane police have invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against a six-member women-led gang allegedly involved in running an organised…
