Mumbai: In a bid to ensure power failures do not disrupt Mumbai’s water supply, the BMC has proposed setting up a backup power transformer at its Bhandup water treatment complex, which supplies nearly 80% of the city’s drinking water.The proposal, to be tabled before the Standing Committee on Wednesday, seeks approval to spend Rs 14.67…
Samajwadi Party MLA Rais Shaikh has urged Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar to establish a study group for a long-stalled socio-economic and educational survey of the Muslim community. MUMBAI: Samajwadi Party MLA Rais Shaikh, on Monday urged DCM Sunetra Pawar, who is also minister for minority development, to establish a study group to facilitate the…
FIR against Mumbai ashram school manager for assaulting two boys (Image used for representational purpose only) MUMBAI: An FIR has been lodged against the manager of an ashram school in the western suburbs for allegedly physically assaulting two boys, aged 11 and 14, which forced them to flee in the dead of night earlier this…
Babu Samir Das and his wife Sapna stay on P D’Mello Road In Bandra East, Shabbir Khan (33) has stacked a month’s worth of dry firewood beneath the plastic-sheet shelter that eight members of his family call home. Once monsoon arrives, dry wood becomes nearly impossible to find.“We need it to cook whatever we have….
Thane: Four minors, including three girls aged between 15 and 17 and a 13-year-old boy, who went missing from Mumbra after leaving home on the pretext of attending classes and a friend’s birthday celebration, were traced within 24 hours by the Mumbra police from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. Police also detained their 20-year-old friend for…
The move to change the ground’s reservation triggered an uproar Mumbai: Amid mounting opposition to BMC’s plan to change the reservation of Neville D’Souza Football Ground at Bandra Reclamation from a playground to an exhibition and convention centre, civic officials clarified that the proposal is is still far from being implemented and must clear multiple…
HSRP being fixed on a vehicle in Pune. Mumbai: Vehicle owners in Maharashtra must install high security registration plates (HSRP) by June 30, failing which strict action will be taken from July 1 under the Motor Vehicles Act, a senior transport department official said on Monday. Transport department has affixed over a crore HSRPs, but…
MLA Rais Shaikh emphasized that no fresh recruitment of technical staff has taken place since 2011, leaving the system overstretched and ill-equipped to manage growing demand Mumbai: South Mumbai is grappling with an alarming power crisis, with prolonged outages severely disrupting daily life. Highlighting the gravity of the situation, MLA Rais Shaikh raised the issue…
The report called a BMC worker’s fall into an open channel an accident Mumbai: Days after a BMC worker fell into an open stormwater channel during mayor Ritu Tawde’s inspection of a chronic flooding spot at King’s Circle, a civic inquiry termed it an accident and called for better crowd management during VIP visits.Eyewitnesses told…
Some of the seized capsules Mumbai: The Pune man arrested for allegedly passing out pills filled with zinc phosphide at a Muharram procession last week had destroyed some of the poison he had ordered online, said police.The probe has shown that the suspect, Fayyaz Premji (39), had ordered 30,000 capsules and 50kg of zinc phosphide,…
