Mumbai: The BMC has proposed a detailed planning exercise to prepare local area plans (LAPs) for neighbourhoods around stations on the Mumbai Metro Line 3 corridor, involving extensive land-use, traffic and infrastructure studies.In the first phase, the planning work will be taken up for four stations under the provisions of Development Control and Promotion Regulations…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra govt on Monday said that it is awaiting the final court order on the issue of allowing homoeopathy doctors to prescribe certain allopathic medicines, although nearly 8,000 practitioners have completed the mandatory bridge course.Responding to a calling attention notice in the state assembly, minister of state for Medical Education Madhuri Misal stated…
Mumbai: Tilak Nagar police arrested two Govandi men for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl who had sought help with procuring a ration card. The suspects, who are in their 50s, claimed to be social workers. One of them lured the unsuspecting girl to a secluded spot in Tilak Nagar in Chembur under the pretext of…
Mumbai: Deonar police arrested a man in Govandi for allegedly selling commercial LPG cylinders at inflated rates. Based on a tipoff, civil supplies department officials seized some illegally stored commercial gas cylinders on Saturday. An inspection of the area led officials to a parked tempo whose doors were locked. After attempts to contact the driver…
Mumbai: After 4 days of heatwave conditions in the first half of March 2026, ie on March 5, 9, 10 and 13, the city is likely to see near-normal temperatures in the coming week. The weather forecast issued for the next 5 days on Sunday also stated that dry weather conditions would persist.Daytime maximum temperatures…
IWSA’s urban rainforest brings biodiversity alive “A tropical rainforest,” says naturalist Vijaya Chakravarty, “is like a multi-storey building. You have the ground cover, the shrubs, the creepers, and, towering above them, the trees.” And every ‘floor’, she continues, motioning up a trunk, forms a distinct ecological niche inhabited by some species or another, from orchids…
Thane: Actor Vishakha Subhedar and her son Abhinay, met Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde at his residence, on Sunday, and expressed their gratitude for facilitating Abhinay’s safe return from Kuwait. “The assistance extended to stranded residents was part of my responsibility to support citizens from Maharashtra who were in distress, whether in India or overseas,”…
Thane: A Lok Adalat in Thane on Saturday settled a motor accident claim, awarding compensation of Rs 2.1 crore to the family of a software engineer who died in a road accident on the Mumbai–Pune Expressway. The Lok Adalat also settled another accident claim, and awarded a compensation of Rs 1 crore to the family…
Thane: A freak fire broke out at an empty wedding venue in the early hours of Sunday in Diva, gutting the nearly 2,400 sq ft stage area. No injuries or casualties were reported. The incident was reported around 4.30 am at the lawn located in Mannat Compound on Khardi Road, hours after a function the…
Thane: Nearly six years after a woman was targeted in a purse-snatching attempt while travelling in an autorickshaw, a Thane court convicted a 19-year-old youth and sentenced him to four years of rigorous imprisonment.Chief Judicial Magistrate Abhijeet V Kulkarni on Monday convicted Shreyash alias “Body” Sujit Padval, a resident of Anand Nagar in Kopri, for…
