Mumbai: In the current hot weather conditions, a severely dehydrated Shaheen Falcon, a sub species of Perigrene Falcon which is regarded among the fastest birds in the world, was rescued from Mulund on Tuesday by Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare (RAWW).The bird was rescued from a residential area on the periphery of Sanjay Gandhi National…
Navi Mumbai: Ten devotees from Shelkepada, Murbad, in Thane sustained injuries after a mini bus in which they were travelling met with an accident on the Borghat stretch of the Mumbai-Pune highway (NH-48) on Wednesday morning. They were heading on a pilgrimage to Jejuri, Pune, when the bus turned turtle after its driver lost control…
Mumbai: Mhada has yet again extended the deadline for applications to its upcoming housing lottery till May 28. In a controversial decision, the housing agency has reserved 610 out of 1,221 tenements in Vikhroli exclusively for HIG (High Income Group) applicants. Each will be allotted one parking space free of cost. The date of the…
Mumbai: Central Bank of India has cut the reserve price for a 94.7-acre land in Thane owned by Wadia Realty Private Limited, part of the Wadia Group that promoted the now defunct GoAir, as lenders step up efforts to recover dues linked to the grounded airline.In its latest e-auction notice, the lender-led consortium has fixed…
Mumbai: The Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change has requested the state government to examine the complaints alleging non-compliance of stage-I conditions and allied issues regarding the diversion of 104 hectares of mangrove land for the proposed Versova-Bhayander Coastal Road project and take necessary action.On June 19, 2025, BMC had received in-principle stage-I…
Kanjurmarg dumping ground Mumbai: Sanjay Yelve, president of the Vikhrolikar Vikas Manch, who visited the Kanjurmarg dumping ground site along with BMC and MPCB officials on Tuesday night to check the odour, said “very few” garbage trucks were seen entering the site between 12.30 am and 1 am.He said when they questioned the BMC staff…
Midway through the trek, they pause to drink from cups folded from fallen leaves. It is a brief moment of relief in a journey shaped by heat, exhaustion and necessit. In Dapurmal, an Adivasi village perched above Upper Vaitarna Dam, fetching water is not a household chore, but a daily expedition. Dapurmal’s only local source…
Mumbai: A magistrate’s court granted bail to Rashmi Saluja, former executive chairperson of Religare Enterprises, in connection with a cheating and criminal conspiracy case registered by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) involving allegations of irregularities related to Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs).The court noted that while the accused was not arrested during the investigation, her…
Mumbai: Calling it a “miracle” that lakhs of residents continue to live in structurally unsafe buildings, a committee appointed by Bombay high court has raised alarm over the condition of the city’s ageing cessed structures, highlighting delays in redevelopment and acute shortage of rehabilitation housing.The panel’s report estimates that nearly four lakh tenants are currently…
Pune: Over 1.7 lakh candidates in Maharashtra are vying for over 10,000 teaching posts in state govt schools. A fresh round of recruitment is set to begin across the state, with the school education department directing institutions to publish vacancy advertisements by May 31 on ‘Pavitra’, a dedicated portal for teacher recruitments.The recruitment will cover…
