Mumbai: In a major administrative restructuring exercise aimed at improving efficiency and reducing operational costs, the commerce and industry ministry plans to merge 20 offices housing 12 organisations across Mumbai into a single integrated campus, a template which may be repeated in other parts of the country.Addressing a press conference, commerce and industry minister Piyush…
Thane: A 52-year-old man is feared to have drowned in the Mithbunder creek, two days after he went missing after leaving his footwear on the banks, officials informed.According to Yasin Tadvi, in-charge at the Regional Disaster Management Cell, Kopri resident Datta Shinalkar left home Wednesday morning, but as he remained unreachable till the next day,…
Mumbai: Mango and cashew farmers from Konkan, backed by farmer leader Raju Shetti and the opposition, staged a protest and demanded compensation worth Rs 5 lakh per hectare for damage to crops by unseasonal rain. The current compensation is Rs 22,000 per hectare.The protesters originally meant to march from Girgaum Chowpatty to the CM’s residence—Varsha—but…
Mumbai: Housing societies across Mumbai have been urged by the BMC to take responsibility for watering trees within private premises as soaring temperatures continue to impact the city’s green cover. Simultaneously, the civic body’s Solid Waste Management department has begun watering roadside trees through tankers during road-cleaning drives in several parts of the city. Civic…
HC said the daughters’ careers should not be hampered because of their father’s absence Mumbai: Bombay high court has released a road rage assault accused on bail for 11 days so that he can guide his daughters on taking a decision regarding their academic careers.“The twin daughters, who are at a crucial juncture of their…
Under the new arrangement, CR will handle pre-monsoon works and routine station maintenance and will issue a written commitment next week Thane: Central Railway (CR) will take over operations and maintenance of all Cidco-managed railway stations on Harbour and Trans-Harbour lines in Navi Mumbai within the next six months, Shiv Sena MP Naresh Mhaske announced…
BMC is set to auction a 5,166 sq m plot in Worli that houses its Municipal Testing Laboratory Chaitanya.MarpakwarMumbai: The BMC has received only two bids for the auction of its Municipal Testing Laboratory (MTL) plot in Worli. The BMC had last month floated a tender to auction the prime Worli plot for ‘commercial exploitation’….
One of the resident doctors claimed a mob of 100 turned up at Kurla Bhabha Hospital Mumbai: Relatives of a patient who died a day after childbirth allegedly assaulted four resident doctors from the gynaecology department at Kurla Bhabha Hospital on Wednesday night.All four doctors were women. “My head was banged against the wall and…
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has reduced Value Added Tax (VAT) on Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) to 7 per cent from 18 per cent for a period of six months with effect from May 15, in a move aimed at providing relief to airlines grappling with high fuel costs. The civil aviation ministry said the move…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only MUMBAI: A 23-year-old man was arrested by the Aarey Colony Police from Bihar for kidnapping a minor girl from the western suburbs and sexually assaulting her.The investigation was complex as the girl had performed a factory reset on her mother’s phone, erasing all traces of her conversation with the…
