Mumbai: Instead of relocating slums from Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) forest land, Mumbai suburban MLAs want the land to be declared as non-forest.On Friday, BJP MLC and group leader in the state legislative council, Pravin Darekar, moved a resolution that residents of Ketkipada in Dahisar and all other surrounding areas right up to Dindoshi…
New Delhi: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has initiated plans to restore the depression at Kamla Nehru Ridge by converting it into a water body, complementing ongoing restoration efforts. The project involves channelling rainwater from adjacent areas through a network of pipelines. This initiative was approved following a site visit by lieutenant governor VK Saxena.The inspection…
Pune: As the first batch of women cadets took part in the passing out parade (PoP) of the National Defence Academy (NDA) on Friday morning — their spirited march a symbol of their exemplary performance during the course — the emotions of their parents ran high with pride at the historic moment.Most of the parents…
Mumbai/New Delhi: In a major relief for construction major Larsen & Toubro, MMRDA informed a Supreme Court vacation bench that it has in public interest scrapped its tenders for the Thane-Ghodbunder- Bhayandar twin tunnel and elevated road projects — estimated together at Rs 14,000 crore — and that it would possibly reissue fresh ones, but…
New Delhi: Fatal accidents and road deaths resulting from the mishaps across key traffic zones have dropped by nearly 15% in the first five months of 2025 as compared to last year, Delhi traffic police records have shown.Till the first half of May, the city has witnessed 88 fewer fatal accidents and 80 fewer deaths…
Pune: Teachers are unhappy over the Directorate of Secondary Education’s advisory to schools on Thursday to guide students in filling up the forms after technical glitches adversely impacted the online centralised admission process for the first year of junior college (FYJC). Teachers feel the state administration is trying to cover up its inadequacy in running…
Mumbai: Property experts estimate a free sale component of roughly 140 million sq ft to be unlocked by the Dharavi redevelopment plan, yielding revenues of Rs 1.2-1.7 lakh crore for the joint venture between the state govt and the Adani group.Said Anuj Puri, chairman, Anarock Group, “At a rough estimate, the Dharavi redevelopment project presents…
New Delhi: Delhi recorded its wettest May since 1901 as the city logged 185.9mm of rainfall, including two spells of heavy showers.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted an above-normal monsoon for the Delhi-Haryana-Chandigarh sub-division. An analysis of past data shows that the capital usually records two to three heavy rainy days during the monsoon,…
Pune: A Pimpri Chinchwad police crime branch team on Friday nabbed Nilesh Chavan, a business associate of Shashank Hagawane and co-accused in the Vaishnavi Hagawane dowry death case, from Maharajganj district in Uttar Pradesh close to the India-Nepal border.“Nilesh Chavan was trying to run away to Nepal, but police arrested him before he could cross…
Mumbai/Pune: A day after special IGP (prisons) Jalindar Supekar was stripped of his additional charge as deputy IG (prisons) of Nashik, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Nagpur divisions in the wake of claims that he had tried to shield the in-laws of alleged Pune dowry harassment-suicide victim Vaishnavi Hagawane , the daughter-in-law of expelled NCP functionary Rajendra…
