Navi Mumbai: Residents and environmentalists stopped the alleged indiscriminate cutting of 17 trees inside the NRI-Seawoods Housing Complex at Nerul in Navi Mumbai after mechanical saws were used to trim and cut branches of mature rain trees, some estimated to be more than 30 years old, destroying bird nests and allegedly violating tree protection norms.The…
Mumbai: Western Railway will undertake a major block at Prabhadevi station early Sunday to facilitate the de-launching of girders of the Prabhadevi Road Over Bridge (ROB), affecting suburban train operations for several hours during the intervening night of March 14 and March 15.The traffic and power block on all lines at Prabhadevi will be carried…
Navi Mumbai: In a joint operation, the Cyber Police and Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Navi Mumbai crime branch busted a fake stock trading call centre and arrested two men for defrauding victims of Rs 1 crore. The call centre had been in operation since Sept last year.Senior inspector Vishal Patil, said, “The arrested…
Navi Mumbai: In a fatal mishap on an internal road in Airoli, two teenage boys riding on a bike were killed after being hit by a JCB machine on Friday around 10 am. The police detained the JCB machine driver. An FIR was registered at Rabale police station against the accused JCB driver, Hanumant Shinde…
Navi Mumbai: After activists criticised the delay of the recent launch of the veterinary hospital by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) in Juinagar, and animal and bird lovers called the situation a glaring failure of urban planning and civic sensitivity, NMMC said a formal inauguration would be done in the next couple of weeks…
Navi Mumbai: Three accused have been arrested by the local crime branch unit of Raigad police for allegedly stealing batteries installed at mobile towers. Two separate offences have been registered with the Khalapur police. The police have seized a tempo worth Rs 7 lakh used for transportation of the batteries. Two of the accused are…
Mumbai: An incinerator system with a capacity of 50 kg per hour for cremation of small animals and birds at the BMC hospital for animals, is ready for operation. This facility will enable safe and environmentally friendly disposal of animal carcasses. The hospital, which is housed in a four-storeyed building and has a separate surgery…
Mumbai: With no contractor yet finalised for Mithi river’s desilting, which takes up to 90 days, the civic administration is now considering bids from even relatively inexperienced contractors, mayor Ritu Tawde said on Friday. An official said BMC has decided to drop the condition that bids from only experienced contractors with specific machinery will be…
Deonandan Prasad Singh was residing in Kandivli, Mumbai and was working as an additional chief engineer aboard the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker MT Safesea Vishnu MUMBAI: A 54-year-old Indian seafarer from Mumbai has died after the oil tanker he was serving on came under attack near Iraq’s southern port city of Basra.India’s Ministry of Ports, Shipping…
MUMBAI: The Food Distribution Department conducted a crackdown on a gang involved in the black marketing of domestic and commercial gas cylinders in the Worli area, seizing a significant stock, officials reported on Saturday. The joint operation, carried out by the Controller Food Rationing Office squad along with officers from Office No. 21, focused on…
