Mumbai: Dahisar’s Nav Tarun Mitra Mandal has decided to stop participating at dahi handi events two days after an 11-year-old boy died after falling off the sixth tier of a human pyramid during their practice session.“We are in shock after Mahesh Jadhav’s loss. The mandal has decided not to participate in any event in future,”…
Pune: The circular the National Service Scheme (NSS) wing of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) issued on Aug 5 to all student volunteers to participate to the maximum extent in the ‘Voice of Devendra’, a state-level elocution competition, was withdrawn on Tuesday by its director Sadanand Bhosale.The competition, according to the circular, is inspired by…
The data for this weather forecast has been sourced from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information to plan their daily activities and weekly schedules accordingly.Mumbai is expected to experience patchy rain on August 13, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 26.9°C and 29.4°C. The day will see a 96% chance of precipitation totaling 2.98 mm, accompanied…
Mumbai: An average of over a thousand challans per day were issued to auto drivers by the traffic police in 2024 for refusing to ply passengers, highlighting the extent to which Mumbaikars are getting hassled. Data with the traffic department shows that 3.69 lakh challans were issued annually for refusals in 2024, up 282% from…
Mumbai: The city’s eastern waterfront may soon host corporate, business, trade and IT parks, besides state-of-the-art warehouses and godowns. Mumbai Port Authority (MbPA) plans to lease out 28 plots totalling over 217 acres near the sea on the east coast of Mumbai and Raigad district, for a period of 30 years for commercial and industrial…
Mumbai: Nearly a month after the scuffle between supporters of NCP (SP) MLA Jitendra Awhad and BJP MLA Gopichand Padalkar in the Vidhav Bhavan during the monsoon session of the state legislature, NCP (SP) appointed an accused in the case, Nitin Deshmukh, as its official spokesperson.Deshmukh, president of the NCP (SP) youth wing for Mumbai,…
Mumbai: Observing that, however noble the intention, one cannot address a public servant in such a manner or threaten him with harm to life or reputation, a special court for MPs and MLAs on Tuesday convicted and sentenced former MLA and former state minister Bacchu alias Omprakash Babarao Kadu to three months’ simple imprisonment for…
Mumbai: State govt has written to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) offering to shift the transmission towers free of cost from Dahisar to Gorai. This is the fourth such letter govt has written to the Centre to expedite the shifting of the transmission towers.The high-frequency communication equipment was installed by AAI on their own…
Mumbai: BMC has banned the transportation of wet waste from bulk waste generators, including residential and commercial complexes, through third-party agencies. This decision follows BMC’s observation that such establishments were handing over large quantities of waste to third-party agencies for disposal elsewhere.BMC has also mandated bulk waste generator establishments to utilise its Domestic Sanitary and…
Mumbai: PM Narendra Modi, along with his Singapore counterpart Lawrence Wong, will inaugurate the single-largest container port in India at Uran later this year. On Tuesday, CM Devendra Fadnavis, along with Singapore’s Dy PM Gan Kim Yong and transport minister Jeffrey Siow, held a review of the Bharat Mumbai Container Terminal Phase 2. The Port…
