Mumbai: A 25-year-old woman was booked by Worli police after her high-end car rammed into a sedan on Worli Sea Link at around 11.45 pm on Monday, police said. No injuries were reported in the incident.Police booked Zenia D’sa, a resident of Powai, who was allegedly driving in a reckless and negligent manner on the…
IIT Bombay’s 2024-25 placements saw a 3.5% dip in offers, yet average and median salaries surged by 10%. MUMBAI: IIT Bombay’s latest annual report containing placement details for 2024–25 shows that of the 2,469 students registered and 2,040 participating, the institute saw 1,422 accepted offers, marking a dip of 3.5% from the previous year. Yet,…
MUMBAI: Nobel laureates, global business leaders and cultural Icons are gathering for the ‘Billionaires for Peace Conclave’ at Hotel Grand Hyatt in Santacruz Thursday. The event is organised by the ‘I am Peacekeeper Movement’.The Nobel winners include Kailash Satyarthi (India, 2014), Houcine Abassi (Tunisia, 2015, as part of the National Dialogue Quartet), Grigorii Pelman (Russia,…
Stone-pelting at Bandra demolition site; 16 arrested, cops injured in clash MUMBAI: Nirmal Nagar police arrested 16 people for allegedly pelting stones at police during a demolition drive carried out on Wednesday outside Bandra Railway station in East, officials said. The arrested persons were produced before the Bandra Court on Thursday. Police booked them for…
Mumbai demolition drive day 3 MUMBAI: Western Railway authorities on Thursday resumed an anti-encroachment demolition drive in Mumbai’s Bandra area, a day after violent clashes broke out between police and protesters.The drive was carried out in Garib Nagar in Bandra (East) under heavy police deployment and heightened security arrangements.This is the third day of the…
Navi Mumbai: The Raigad Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) team laid a trap Tuesday and arrested the circle officer of Panvel tehsildar office for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 from a Panvel resident for registering the 7/12 extract document of the land in Panvel taluka belonging to the complainant and his wife. The arrested accused…
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation MUMBAI: With monsoon approaching and fears of flooding in the chronically waterlogged Parel railway station area mounting, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has launched a crackdown on contractors working on the Sewri-Worli Elevated Road project, demolishing illegal site structures and slapping penalties of over a crore on agencies like Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development…
Western Railway commenced a massive anti-encroachment drive at Garib Nagar, Mumbai, demolishing hundreds of structures near Bandra station to reclaim valuable railway land. MUMBAI: In the biggest anti-encroachment operations undertaken by Western Railway till date in Mumbai, officials began demolishing hundreds of structures at Garib Nagar near Bandra railway station after securing clearance from the…
MUMBAI: For the first time in recent memory, the popular 7.5-acre Bandra Talao, a Grade II heritage lake, has been dewatered as part of a major rejuvenation drive. The urban waterbody is now a vast stretch of exposed mudflats and heavy silt deposits, with excavation machinery and pumps working through the remaining patches of sludge….
By: Srimoyee Palit & Meghna RewachandMUMBAI: As bulldozers tore through the narrow lanes of Garib Nagar in Bandra East this week, hundreds of families watched decadesold homes crumble into heaps of concrete and twisted metal, their belongings piled onto tarpaulins under the harsh summer sun. As authorities cleared land for railway expansion and infrastructure integration,…
