Mumbai: In another attempt to expedite the redevelopment of slums in Mumbai, the state housing department on Thursday issued a govt resolution (GR) detailing the slum cluster redevelopment policy. Since the introduction of the slum redevelopment scheme in 1995, around three lakh rehab tenements were constructed. The state govt aims to build five lakh rehab…
Navi Mumbai: The City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) on Thursday kicked off the development of the proposed International Educity at Kundevahal, Taluka Panvel, Navi Mumbai, on approximately 100 hectares under its Centre of Excellence (COE) project. The initiative aims to position Navi Mumbai as a global education hub by offering world-class healthcare, education, sports…
Mumbai: CM Devendra Fadnavis, along with DCMs Ajit Pawar and Eknath Shinde, will confer Maharashtra Bhushan Award, the state’s highest civilian award, on eminent centurian sculptor Ram Vanji Sutar at the latter’s Noida home on Friday. Sutar is credited with designing the world’s tallest statue, the Statue of Unity (182 metres), in Gujarat, a tribute…
Mumbai: The state govt has announced a budgetary provision of Rs 100 crore as an incentive for the gems and jewellery industry as it released its five-year policy to promote the industry. In a Govt Resolution (GR) issued on Wednesday, the state industry dept stated it approved a total incentive of Rs 13,835 crore for…
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday enhanced monthly interim maintenance seven times, from Rs 50,000 to Rs 3.5 lakh, for a wife in Pune. This decision came after observing that the estranged husband approached the court with “unclean hands and lack of credibility” in a matrimonial dispute. The couple married in 1997 and separated…
Mumbai: BMC-run Cooper Hospital will soon see yet another acting dean, its second in the last few months, following last week’s attack on three on-duty doctors in the casualty department. The appointment is expected within the next seven days.The change in leadership was a key decision taken during a meeting of civic officials and cabinet…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government will take over the historical India House in London, once the abode of freedom fighters, including Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, and preserve it as a memorial, state cultural affairs minister Ashish Shelar said on Wednesday.He said Indian residents in London had drawn the state’s attention to the importance of the property during…
TIFR mathematician Sabyasachi Mukherjee has received two major science awards MUMBAI: Within a span of just two weeks, 39-year-old Sabyasachi Mukherjee, an associate professor from the TIFR’s School of Mathematics, has been honoured with two of India’s most prestigious recognitions in science – the Vigyan Yuva Puraskar in the last week of Oct and the…
A 38-year-old man tragically died after his scooter collided with a JCB machine illegally parked on a no-parking zone MUMBAI: A 38-year-old man died after his scooter collided with a JCB machine illegally parked on a no-parking stretch along Zakaria Bunder Road in Sewri in the early hours of 8 November. Police have registered a…
MUMBAI: Fatalities on Samruddhi Mahamarg rose by 16% between Jan and Sep compared to the same period last year, but fell by 29% on Mumbai-Pune Expressway. Latest transport department data, released on Wednesday, showed fatalities on the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi go up from 92 to 107, and on Expressway fall from 72 to 51. Why the…
