Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said Maharashtra is set to provide 30 lakh houses to homeless people under the Pradhan Mantri Awas scheme and become the first state in India to achieve 100% of the target.He also said a fresh survey would be carried out to identify homeless people who are yet to…
Mumbai: After operating with just five food safety officers (FSOs) for nearly a year, the city’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to appoint at least 40 new FSOs by June 7, in a bid to address a severe staffing shortfall. The drug department under the FDA is similarly stretched thin with only five…
New Delhi: Highlighting ‘Vision Zero’, a global movement aiming to completely eliminate traffic fatalities and injuries, Geetam Tiwari, professor emeritus at the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, IIT-Delhi, on Tuesday underlined the crucial role that speed plays in controlling road accidents.Speaking at Urban Adda, a three-day conference aiming to bring together ideas and successful…
Pune: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan on Tuesday said “on May 10 around 1am, Pakistan aimed to bring India to its knees in 48 hours” but “their operation, which they thought would continue for 48 hours, folded up in about eight hours”.“Then they picked up the telephone and said they wanted to talk,”…
Navi Mumbai: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has instructed the Urban Development Department (UDD) to investigate complaints by environmental groups regarding damage due to dumping of debris at Navi Mumbai wetland, Lotus Lake. The construction debris from the upcoming Navi Mumbai airport project was dumped at the 7.2-acre Lotus Lake, which is protected by a high…
New Delhi: To find a way to effectively dispose of municipal solid waste in Delhi’s wholesale fruit and vegetable markets, chief minister Rekha Gupta held a meeting with officials of the market boards and the department of urban development. “Coordination with relevant departments will be strengthened to further improve the sanitation systems in the markets….
Pune: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has resolved a nearly two-decade-old legacy issue involving similar Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC) numbers, weeding out approximately 2.6 lakh duplicate cards from the electoral database across the country.The exercise, which involved scrutinising records of over 99 crore electors across 10.5 lakh polling stations in all 4,123 assembly…
Navi Mumbai:An angadia was robbed of Rs 32 lakh cash by a six-member gang when he went to deposit the cash at an ATM in Juinagar on May 31. One of the robbers, posing as a cop, claimed that the cash was unaccounted for and told him to accompany them to the police station for…
New Delhi: Delhi Police ordered an inquiry into the high-profile theft that rocked the special cell, with cash and jewellery worth crores going missing from its police station in Lodhi Colony. A former cell member, Khursheed, was arrested.The inquiry by an additional CP-rank officer aims to establish negligence at different levels and will record the…
Pune: From EV-ready parking provisions and streamlined redevelopment rules to digital governance and pet policies, Maharashtra State Co-operative Housing and Apartment Federation has submitted a fresh set of demands to be incorporated in the upcoming model bye-laws 2025 for cooperative housing societies. These demands have been placed before a state-appointed committee headed by the cooperation…
