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Mumbai: A citizen group has complained that multiple healthy trees along the Western Express Highway, from Vile Parle (East) to Andheri (East), have been indiscriminately trimmed and reduced to sticks to improve the visibility of large commercial hoardings. BMC garden department officials differed with the group, the Watchdog Foundation, and said that the branches of…

Mumbai: Eknath Shinde was on Monday re-elected the Shiv Sena‘s chief leader at the party’s national executive meeting. There was a demand from party functionaries that Shinde be elected as the Sena’s party chief, a post that Uddhav Thackeray held in the united Shiv Sena and currently holds in the Shiv Sena (UBT). At Monday’s…

Mumbai: As June drew to a close, rainfall readings from the city’s two main weather observatories painted a contrasting picture. While the Colaba observatory of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) recorded 592 mm of rain — exceeding its monthly average of 542.3 mm — Santacruz fell slightly short, logging 512.7 mm against an average of…

Mumbai: Even as the Maharashtra cabinet announced the scrapping of both govt resolutions (GRs), released in April and June, regarding the three-language formula, educationists and linguists remain wary of the state’s back-and-forth on the issue and have urged it to include them in future consultations and deliberations.Laxmikanth Deshmukh, chairman of the Marathi Language Advisory Committee,…

Mumbai: Between June 1 and 20, Central Railway (CR) recorded 666 instances of alarm chain pulling across its network — 251 of which occurred in the Mumbai division alone. As a result, 463 passengers were prosecuted, and a total fine of Rs 1.7 lakh was collected, according to CR’s chief spokesperson Swapnil Nila.Each incident caused…