Mumbai: In a first-of-its-kind move, BMC is set to collaborate with private weather agency Skymet to receive hyperlocal rainfall forecasts for each of the city’s 24 municipal wards. The forecasts will not only offer 24-hour advance alerts but also “nowcasts” within three hours of an expected extreme weather event.While India Meteorological Department (IMD) will remain…
Thane: The deteriorating condition of Ghodbunder Highway has returned to haunt motorists, leading to frequent massive traffic congestions and delays in travel time for Mumbai commuters using the arterial highway especially along the Thane and Mira-Bhayender city fringes. This crucial 14 km highway cutting through Thane and Mira-Bhayender city limits connects the Eastern and Western…
Mumbai: The state govt Friday issued a circular holding owners of establishments accountable if they employ illegal Bangladeshi migrants, effectively making them responsible for providing shelter to such individuals, and said it will amend the laws, if needed, to initiate action against the errants.The govt will also implement an online system for verification of documents,…
New Delhi: The importance of toilets can be best assessed by the fact that a few months delay in construction of a toilet block led to Bombay High Court initiating contempt proceedings against a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation engineer and in turn the matter ended up with the Supreme Court on Friday.The Bombay HC on Oct…
Mumbai: An Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Mumbai made an emergency landing in the city after the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft experienced a depressurisation problem. “On landing, seven passengers were attended to by the Mumbai airport medical team for decompression-related symptoms, out of which one passenger required hospitalisation,” a source said.The incident occurred…
Kolhapur: While the NCP (SP) has declared support to the July 5 protest march against the “imposition of Hindi,” the party’s chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said celebrities such as cricketer Sachin Tendulkar should not be insisted upon to express their views on making Hindi a must in the Maharashtra school curriculum. “Ask Sachin about…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has permitted the medical termination of the over six-month pregnancy of a 13-year-old schoolgirl, a sexual assault survivor.Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Neela Gokhale on Thursday directed that MTP shall be carried out at the earliest, subject to the minor’s “medical parameters being suitable for the procedure as per medical…
Kalyan: Manpada police have seized 2kg of mephedrone (MD) worth Rs 2.1 crore from a flat in a Dombivli township and arrested three youths.Police said that all three are Mumbra residents who work in a call centre in Navi Mumbai and that they had taken the flat on rent specifically to peddle drugs. They suspect…
Mumbai: The police busted an inter-state gang of heavy vehicle thieves and seized six stolen trucks and trailers from them, collectively worth Rs 1 crore.On June 8, a 10-wheeler cement trailer was stolen from Goregaon (East). After an FIR, a team supervised by DCP Mahesh Chemte and senior inspector Girish Bane tracked down the vehicle…
Mumbai: Transport minister Pratap Sarnaik asked the urban development department (UDD) to make necessary changes in its regulations for integrated parking management in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) on Friday.He requested that a draft with 14 new guidelines be sent to the municipalities in the region. He was speaking at a meeting of municipal commissioners…
