HC posted the matter after four weeks Mumbai: Bombay HC on Tuesday asked the petitioner and the intervenor in a PIL that sought judicial intervention to prevent tree falls and any consequential injuries to submit to BMC their claim that 321 trees have yet not been de-concretised. Activist Sagar Ugale disputed BMC’s claim that only…
A university official clarified that the issue would be taken up in the next meeting of the council Mumbai: The Mumbai University’s management council, in a meeting held this week, decided not to seek a CID probe in the alleged BCom paper leak, days after the higher education minister, Chandrakant Patil, announced the decision in…
MUMBAI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for Mumbai, Raigad, Palghar and Thane on Thursday, warning of moderate to intense spells of rain at isolated places.The warning, issued at 7 am and valid for three hours, said such rain conditions are very likely to occur in isolated pockets across the region.The…
Mumbai/Navi Mumbai: Two people lost their lives in two separate slab collapse incidents in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in 24 hours.On Babulnath Road in Walkeshwar, a 51-year-old pedestrian, Santosh Bharaskar, employed at a nearby petrol pump, died after a portion of the third-floor balcony of a ground-plus-three-storey cessed Mhada building, Surya Prakash, crashed on the…
Mumbai: A day after 11-year-old Vihaan Srivastav died in a tree crash in Chembur, the BMC suspended three officials–Jagdish Bhoir, assistant garden superintendent of M-West ward, Arun Mundhe, sub-engineer from its roads and traffic department, M-West ward, and Yogesh Parte, assistant engineer of M-East ward–for alleged negligence, pending a departmental inquiry.Following Tuesday’s tragedy, BMC commissioner…
Mumbai: “Asato ma sad gamaya, tamaso ma jyotir gamaya, mrityor ma amritam gamaya—lead me from untruth to truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.” The ancient Sanskrit mantra for enlightenment and peace echoed as 11-year-old Vihan Srivastav, who died when a roadside tree fell on his school bus on Chembur’s Road No 11,…
Mumbai: Heavy rain continued to lash Mumbai on Wednesday, inundating several low-lying areas, triggering tree fall incidents and pushing rainfall in parts of the eastern suburbs well past the 150 mm mark within 12 hours.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a red nowcast warning for Mumbai around 12.30 pm on Wednesday, warning of intense spells…
Mumbai: To tighten the legal framework for recovery of investor assets, virtual digital assets (VDAs) like cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-based digital instruments can be now attached in cases involving financial fraud. Maharashtra legislature on Wednesday passed amendments to the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) Act, 1999 (MPID Act). The Bill, introduced…
Mumbai: BMC’s additional municipal commissioner Prajakta Verma-Lavangare, who is also additional district election officer, has directed that strict action will be initiated against officers and employees who fail to report immediately for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) programme of electoral rolls. She also instructed assistant commissioners and zonal deputy commissioners of the BMC and the…
Mumbai: The Bhoiwada Police arrested three men for allegedly stealing donation boxes from a temple in Dadar East and recovered the entire stolen property worth Rs 9,000.According to police, the theft took place between 9 pm on June 28 and 6 am on June 29 at the Vyagheshwar Mahadev Mandir on Sadanand Jadhav Marg, Naigaon.Following…
